Highest to Lowest - Female prisoners (percentage of prison population)

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Data shown in the highest to lowest lists are the most recent available but not necessarily from the same date. Please click on each individual country to see the date to which the data refer. As it is not possible to obtain meaningful comparative data on numbers of children in custody in different countries, we do not include juvenile imprisonment data in the highest to lowest lists.

Ranking Title Female Prisoners (%)
  United Kingdom: Scotland 4.1
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 4.6
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 4.1
  Turkey 4.2
  Slovenia 5.4
  Slovakia 7.8
  Poland 5.1
  Norway 5.4
  Italy 4.3
  Ireland, Republic of 5.0
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 5.7
  Georgia 3.5
  Estonia 4.8
  Czech Republic 8.7
  Austria 6.8
  Albania 1.2
  France 4.4
  Iceland 8.3
  Portugal 7.4
  Romania 4.5
  Kosovo/Kosova 2.7
  Croatia 5.9
  Spain 7.1
  North Macedonia 3.1
  Liechtenstein 0.0
  Bulgaria 3.7
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 2.1
  Andorra 11.8
  Sweden 5.9
  Germany 5.6
  Azerbaijan 2.8
  Serbia 4.1
  Luxembourg 5.4
  Latvia 8.4
  Finland 7.1
  Armenia 2.9
  Netherlands 4.6
  San Marino 11.1
  Montenegro 3.2
  Monaco 14.3
  Moldova (Republic of) 5.4
  Malta 8.6
  Greece 4.9
  Cyprus (Republic of) 9.5
  Belgium 4.5
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 0.0
  Lithuania 4.1
  Russian Federation 8.9
  Ukraine 3.9
  Denmark 4.8
  Hungary 7.5
  Switzerland 5.9
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 4.4
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 6.8
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 7.1
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 3.2
  Belarus 10.8