Highest to Lowest - Foreign 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 Foreign Prisoners (%)
  Ecuador 8.1
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 1.1
  Paraguay 24.4
  Romania 1.1
  Thailand 3.4
  Portugal 17.5
  Albania 2.8
  Belgium 41.5
  Poland 3.8
  Norway 27.2
  Georgia 12.1
  Czech Republic 8.4
  Taiwan 0.7
  Japan 6.9
  Estonia 32.8
  Turkey 4.4
  United Kingdom: Scotland 7.6
  Slovenia 34.0
  Mexico 1.2
  Colombia 1.3
  Nigeria 0.3
  Indonesia 0.4
  Martinique (France)
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 63.0
  Reunion (France)
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 11.3
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 12.0
  Slovakia 4.1
  Italy 31.6
  Ireland, Republic of 14.6
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 9.7
  France 25.1
  Austria 52.5
  Sri Lanka 1.4
  Dominican Republic 6.9
  Mauritius 6.4
  Ghana 6.9
  New Caledonia (France)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  Mayotte (France)
  Dominica 9.6
  Angola 3.1
  Sao Tome e Principe 0.8
  Vanuatu 2.5
  South Africa 14.4
  Rwanda 0.3
  Niger
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 25.2
  Argentina 6.8
  New Zealand 3.0
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
  Bangladesh 0.6
  Seychelles 1.3
  Macau (China) 72.1
  Uganda 1.8
  Tajikistan 4.9
  Kazakhstan 3.7
  Guam (USA) 0.0
  Brazil 0.3
  Yemen 3.2
  Uruguay 2.8
  Croatia 17.5
  Andorra 60.7
  Ukraine 2.1
  North Macedonia 7.4
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  Iceland 39.7
  Bulgaria 3.9
  Spain 31.2
  Morocco 1.5
  Gabon 13.8
  Bahamas
  Sweden 16.7
  Germany 39.5
  Denmark 29.0
  Virgin Islands (USA) 15.7
  Central African Republic
  Azerbaijan 1.9
  Palau 6.5
  Fiji 1.7
  Suriname 19.3
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 0.0
  Guinea (Republic of) 2.7
  Chad 1.3
  Luxembourg 77.7
  Latvia 2.4
  Armenia 6.2
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Netherlands 25.2
  Serbia 4.1
  Switzerland 72.3
  Panama 10.1
  Hong Kong (China) 25.6
  Chile 3.4
  Australia 14.4
  United States of America 6.6
  Somalia (Federal Republic of)
  Kuwait 13.5
  Belize 9.1
  El Salvador 1.3
  San Marino 71.4
  Montenegro 17.1
  Monaco 88.5
  French Polynesia (France)
  Canada
  Hungary 4.9
  Papua New Guinea 0.4
  Nauru 6.7
  Tonga 0.0
  Lithuania 3.4
  Solomon Islands 1.0
  Malaysia 18.3
  Peru 5.2
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 32.9
  Costa Rica 15.2
  Singapore 10.6
  Benin
  Greenland (Denmark) 0.9
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  Cambodia 6.5
  Honduras 0.6
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.8
  Barbados 13.8
  Zimbabwe 2.5
  Zambia 2.1
  Mozambique 1.5
  Cote d'Ivoire 30.0
  Cameroon 4.9
  Pakistan 1.2
  Malta 47.4
  Greece 56.8
  Cyprus (Republic of) 55.2
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 3.6
  Burundi 1.2
  Puerto Rico (USA)
  Sierra Leone 0.4
  Lebanon 36.0
  Grenada 3.1
  Madagascar 0.1
  Haiti
  Philippines 0.3
  Guyana 1.5
  Kenya 0.6
  India 1.1
  Vietnam 0.4
  Jordan 9.9
  Kosovo/Kosova 5.7
  Libya 12.8
  Comoros 7.7
  Guatemala 3.2
  Nepal 5.1
  Senegal 9.1
  Bolivia 3.3
  Mali
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 1.5
  Finland 16.9
  Democratic Republic of Congo
  Israel 38.9
  Moldova (Republic of) 1.3
  Qatar 84.8
  Uzbekistan
  South Sudan
  Liberia 2.0
  Cuba
  Egypt 1.0
  Republic of (South) Korea 5.1
  Kyrgyzstan 3.2
  St. Lucia 3.0
  Aruba (Netherlands) 28.6
  Antigua and Barbuda 30.6
  Afghanistan 0.9
  Burkina Faso 4.1
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 29.1
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Trinidad and Tobago 0.8
  St. Kitts and Nevis 2.1
  Jamaica 0.2
  Tanzania 3.7
  Mauritania 13.4
  Eswatini/Swaziland 6.0
  Botswana 21.2
  Russian Federation 6.2
  Gambia 66.7
  Samoa 0.5
  Maldives 1.1
  Curaçao (Netherlands)
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 3.8
  American Samoa (USA) 62.2
  Iraq
  Mongolia 0.4
  Venezuela 2.3
  Equatorial Guinea
  Togo 5.2
  Algeria 3.8
  Malawi 0.2
  Namibia 8.9
  Laos
  Lesotho 0.9
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 0.7
  Tunisia 2.5
  Guinea Bissau 7.1
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 33.9
  Turkmenistan 0.7
  China 0.4
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 20.2
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 11.5
  Djibouti
  Saudi Arabia 49.0
  Congo (Republic of)
  Brunei Darussalam 29.2
  Iran 2.9
  Belarus 3.1
  Marshall Islands
  Nicaragua 2.9
  Bahrain 23.7
  Sudan 1.0
  Ethiopia
  Eritrea
  Kiribati 0.0
  Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea
  Oman 30.3
  Tuvalu 0.0
  Micronesia, Federated States of
  Bhutan 6.8
  United Arab Emirates 87.8
  Syria 7.3