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The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (per data released in October 2021 by World Prison Brief). This number is equivalent to roughly 25% of the world's total prison population and leads to an incarceration rate of 629 people per 100,000—the highest rate in the ...
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10. Peru. Rounding up the list, Peru is one of the largest...
- Murder Rates
Below is a list of each country's homicide rate (number of...
- Crime Rates
to 2020. The prison populations of California, Texas, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons each declined by more than 22,500 from 2019 to 2020, accounting for 33% of the total prison population decrease. In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992. From 2010 to 2020, the sentenced imprisonment
In 2022, the United States had 1,808,100 inmates in adult facilities (prisons and jails), at a rate of 541 per 100,000 population. That was the 5th highest rate in the world. [3][1] In 2021, the United States had 1,767,200 inmates in adult facilities (prisons and jails). [3] .
Note: All prison population data were extracted from the World Prison Brief database (2020). 1 Data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). 2 Data are 2013 estimates, based on a review by Yang (2017) “Community corrections programs in China: New forms of informal punishments?”
About 1 in 47 adult U.S. residents (2.1%) were under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2020, a decrease from 1 in 40 (2.5%) at the end of 2019. This report summarizes data on populations supervised by probation or parole agencies and those incarcerated in state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails.
This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each. [1] Prison population rates from World Prison Brief. See date on map.
At the top of the page we have the world map of the prison population by country. Next, in the table, we can see and order a list of countries by incarceration, i.e., the prison population statistics according to the following data: Number of adult women in prison by country.
