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Around the world, many countries have jail occupancy rates that exceed 100% of their prison system's capacity. Kenya's jail occupancy level is currently 284%. Additionally, the massive number of prisons and prisoners places a significant strain on state budgets.
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10. Peru. Rounding up the list, Peru is one of the largest...
- Murder Rates
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.
In 2022, China had the largest prison population in the Asia-Pacific region. India followed with over 554 million prisoners.
World Prison Brief data. Africa; Asia. Afghanistan
100 prisoners per 100,000 population were reported in Southern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe while the rates in Northern America, Eastern Europe, South America and Central America and the Caribbean exceeded 200 prisoners per 100,000 population.
Daejeon (Republic of Korea), 16 December 2021 – Imprisonment is a growing issue in Asia-Pacific: between 2000 and 2019, the prison population in the region has increased more than 40%. In 2019, 5.47 million people were held in prisons in Asia-Pacific, almost half of the world’s prison population.
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.
