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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 Prison Population Total Prison Population Rate Pre-trial Detainees (%) Female Prisoners (%) Foreign Prisoners (%) Occupancy Level (%)
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 160 186 20.2 7.6 1.1 95.8
  Portugal 12613 117 22.3 7.2 17.5 99.2
  Albania 4491 167 61.3 1.3 2.8 90.5
  Romania 24628 129 9.2 4.6 1.1 117.3
  Poland 71050 195 10.9 5.3 3.9 85.5
  Georgia 8899 232 19.4 4.4 12.2 72.2
  Belgium 13018 109 36.2 4.5 41.5 114.1
  Norway 3020 54 30.2 4.5 27.2 77.0
  Czech Republic 19679 178 8.5 9.0 8.4 98.0
  Estonia 1620 117 20.2 4.9 32.8 56.2
  United Kingdom: Scotland 8129 146 26.4 4.1 7.6 100.9
  Slovenia 1683 79 28.2 5.5 34.0 125.0
  Turkey 403060 471 14.0 4.5 4.4 132.9
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 2000 103 36.5 4.8 11.3 86.2
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 88084 142 20.0 4.0 12.8 108.0
  Italy 62445 106 24.1 4.4 31.6 121.7
  Ireland, Republic of 5322 97 18.2 5.1 14.6 114.1
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 85 128 25.9 3.5 9.7 71.2
  France 82921 121 31.4 3.5 25.1 133.0
  Austria 9524 103 19.0 6.9 52.6 115.3
  Slovakia 8246 152 14.2 7.1 4.1 71.6
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 138 133 28.1 5.1 25.2 69.0
  Croatia 4445 115 41.4 5.1 17.5 109.1
  Andorra 51 60 29.5 11.5 60.7 34.5
  Ukraine 44024 130 35.9 5.3 2.1 55.9
  North Macedonia 2555 140 12.3 3.7 7.4 99.3
  Liechtenstein 14 35 83.3 0.0 83.3 70.0
  Iceland 140 35 30.5 9.9 39.7 87.5
  Bulgaria 6378 99 21.5 3.6 3.9 68.7
  Spain 56698 117 17.5 7.1 31.2 74.1
  Sweden 10175 96 27.0 6.3 16.7 110.7
  Germany 57955 68 20.8 5.9 39.5 80.1
  Denmark 4083 69 38.8 5.3 29.0 99.4
  Azerbaijan 24698 244 22.5 2.9 1.9 96.2
  Luxembourg 600 89 48.9 5.5 77.7 60.3
  Latvia 3271 175 23.7 7.7 2.4 67.8
  Armenia 2469 83 53.3 2.6 6.2 55.0
  Netherlands 11537 64 29.2 4.7 25.2 78.0
  Serbia 10787 162 20.4 4.2 4.1 90.2
  Switzerland 6881 77 46.1 5.7 72.3 94.9
  San Marino 1 3 100.0 7.1 71.4 50.0
  Montenegro 1046 170 48.3 3.5 17.1 78.5
  Monaco 31 81 46.2 0.0 88.5 34.8
  Hungary 18270 192 22.8 8.4 4.9 101.5
  Lithuania 4551 156 11.8 4.5 3.4 68.4
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 14 26 50.0 0.0 100.0
  Malta 671 119 43.9 9.1 47.4 91.5
  Greece 10242 98 24.7 5.0 56.8 95.2
  Cyprus (Republic of) 966 103 24.1 9.2 55.2 155.8
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 1688 79 21.3 3.2 3.6 82.6
  Kosovo/Kosova 1830 99 35.6 2.7 5.7 97.1
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 524 44 20.5 2.1 1.5 39.7
  Finland 2912 52 22.8 7.7 16.9 97.2
  Moldova (Republic of) 5695 235 17.0 5.3 1.3 86.0
  Russian Federation 433006 300 25.5 8.9 6.2 67.0
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 92 273 26.8 7.1 33.9 93.9
  Belarus 32556 345 16.6 10.8 3.1 83.4