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As of July 2022, the most recent countries to outlaw the death penalty are Kazakhstan and Papua New Guinea, whose laws abolishing capital punishment went into effect on 29 Dec 2021, and 22 Jan 2022 respectively. Malaysia is expected to follow suit later in 2022.
- Incarceration Rates by Country 2023
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- Incarceration Rates by Country 2023
Singapore has the highest Human Development Index of all the countries that use the death penalty, while Japan has both the highest inequality-adjusted HDI and the highest planetary pressures–adjusted HDI.
Explore an interactive map showcasing the status of death penalties and executions worldwide.
Our interactive map allows us to approach the situation of the death penalty from a global perspective, then delve into the details and sort the results by intergovernmental organisation, and finally, obtain reliable information for each state via the “The Death Penalty Worldwide” tab.
This chart shows countries by existence and practice of death penalty laws (2023).
States or territories where the death penalty is abolished unless there are exceptional circumstances.
That year, two thirds of the countries in the world regularly practised the death penalty. Today, 80% of UN member states no longer execute and almost 60% are abolitionist. In order to accompany your exploration of this new map, ECPM has drawn up an overview of the death penalty situation in 2020 .
