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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...
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While 2022's global murder rate was 6.1 (per 100k people),...
- Crime Rates
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.
Compare the number of prisoners per 100,000 population in different countries as of January 2024. El Salvador tops the list with over 1,000 prisoners per 100,000, followed by Cuba, Rwanda, and Turkmenistan.
This fourteenth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in the levels of imprisonment across the world and makes possible an estimate of the world prison population total.
KEY TAKEAWAYS. World prison population on the increase, after a hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a third of the global prison population remains in pre-trial detention, masking wide regional disparities. In some regions women face a higher risk of pre-trial detention than men.
The World Prison Brief is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is a unique resource, which supports evidence-based development of prison policy and practice globally.
Notwithstanding the decrease in 2020, overall the global prison population has increased by 17 per cent since the start of the 21 st century. As of 2021, there were an estimated 142 prisoners for every 100,000 population globally.
