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 (%)
  Ecuador 6.4
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 7.6
  Paraguay 5.5
  Romania 4.6
  Thailand 12.3
  Portugal 7.2
  Albania 1.3
  Belgium 4.5
  Poland 5.3
  Norway 4.5
  Georgia 4.5
  Czech Republic 9.0
  Taiwan 9.8
  Japan 9.1
  Estonia 4.9
  Turkey 4.5
  United Kingdom: Scotland 4.1
  Slovenia 5.5
  Mexico 5.9
  Colombia 6.1
  Nigeria 2.4
  Indonesia 4.8
  Martinique (France) 3.0
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 6.3
  Reunion (France) 2.8
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 4.8
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 4.1
  Slovakia 7.1
  Italy 4.3
  Ireland, Republic of 4.8
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 3.4
  France 3.4
  Austria 7.2
  Sri Lanka 4.3
  Dominican Republic 2.6
  Mauritius 6.9
  Ghana 1.4
  New Caledonia (France) 1.5
  Guadeloupe (France) 2.2
  Mayotte (France) 1.3
  Dominica 1.2
  Angola 2.5
  Sao Tome e Principe 4.0
  Vanuatu 0.0
  South Africa 3.0
  Rwanda 6.6
  Niger 3.1
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 5.1
  Argentina 4.1
  New Zealand 6.7
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 2.9
  Bangladesh 3.9
  Seychelles 6.1
  Macau (China) 17.8
  Uganda 4.9
  Tajikistan 2.9
  Kazakhstan 8.2
  Guam (USA) 3.9
  Brazil 5.7
  Yemen 1.3
  Uruguay 7.9
  Croatia 5.1
  Andorra 11.5
  Ukraine 5.3
  North Macedonia 3.7
  Liechtenstein 0.0
  Iceland 9.9
  Bulgaria 3.6
  Spain 7.1
  Morocco 2.5
  Gabon 3.5
  Bahamas 7.4
  Sweden 6.3
  Germany 5.9
  Denmark 5.3
  Virgin Islands (USA) 5.2
  Central African Republic 3.9
  Azerbaijan 2.9
  Palau 4.5
  Fiji 3.1
  Suriname 3.1
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 8.3
  Guinea (Republic of) 3.0
  Chad 1.5
  Luxembourg 5.5
  Latvia 7.7
  Armenia 2.6
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA) 5.8
  Netherlands 4.7
  Serbia 4.2
  Switzerland 5.7
  Panama 4.6
  Hong Kong (China) 21.5
  Chile 8.3
  Australia 7.7
  United States of America 9.7
  Somalia (Federal Republic of)
  Kuwait 5.8
  Belize 3.6
  El Salvador 7.4
  San Marino 7.1
  Montenegro 3.5
  Monaco 0.0
  French Polynesia (France) 3.7
  Canada 7.0
  Hungary 8.4
  Papua New Guinea 4.4
  Nauru 5.3
  Tonga 3.8
  Lithuania 4.5
  Solomon Islands 2.3
  Malaysia 5.4
  Peru 5.2
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 9.4
  Costa Rica 4.4
  Singapore 10.2
  Benin 3.1
  Greenland (Denmark) 13.8
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 0.0
  Cambodia 6.6
  Honduras 6.1
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2.0
  Barbados 3.0
  Zimbabwe 3.1
  Zambia 3.3
  Mozambique 3.0
  Cote d'Ivoire 2.5
  Cameroon 2.6
  Pakistan 1.6
  Malta 9.1
  Greece 5.0
  Cyprus (Republic of) 9.2
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 3.2
  Burundi 7.5
  Puerto Rico (USA) 3.7
  Sierra Leone 3.5
  Lebanon 2.9
  Grenada 1.6
  Madagascar 5.5
  Haiti 3.5
  Philippines 9.8
  Guyana 2.6
  Kenya 4.7
  India 4.1
  Vietnam 12.1
  Jordan 2.2
  Kosovo/Kosova 2.7
  Libya 1.1
  Comoros 1.6
  Guatemala 12.1
  Nepal 5.4
  Senegal 2.6
  Bolivia 6.6
  Mali 3.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 2.1
  Finland 7.7
  Democratic Republic of Congo 2.3
  Israel 1.0
  Moldova (Republic of) 5.3
  Qatar 2.9
  Uzbekistan
  South Sudan 10.9
  Liberia 2.8
  Cuba
  Egypt 3.7
  Republic of (South) Korea 8.4
  Kyrgyzstan 2.9
  St. Lucia 2.7
  Aruba (Netherlands) 8.4
  Antigua and Barbuda 5.5
  Afghanistan 4.2
  Burkina Faso 1.8
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 0.0
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 4.5
  Trinidad and Tobago 2.9
  St. Kitts and Nevis 3.6
  Jamaica 4.0
  Tanzania 3.4
  Mauritania 2.0
  Eswatini/Swaziland 2.9
  Botswana 5.0
  Russian Federation 8.9
  Gambia 2.6
  Samoa 5.3
  Maldives 4.3
  Curaçao (Netherlands) 2.6
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 4.1
  American Samoa (USA) 9.6
  Iraq 2.6
  Mongolia 4.5
  Venezuela 7.8
  Equatorial Guinea 5.0
  Togo 2.6
  Algeria 1.5
  Malawi 1.1
  Namibia 2.9
  Laos 13.7
  Lesotho 2.9
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 12.3
  Tunisia 3.3
  Guinea Bissau 2.6
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 7.1
  Turkmenistan 6.5
  China 8.6
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 8.0
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 2.9
  Djibouti 5.0
  Saudi Arabia 1.9
  Congo (Republic of) 3.7
  Brunei Darussalam 11.9
  Iran 3.1
  Belarus 10.8
  Marshall Islands 0.0
  Nicaragua 5.4
  Bahrain 4.7
  Sudan 1.7
  Ethiopia 4.2
  Eritrea
  Kiribati 0.8
  Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea
  Oman 4.5
  Tuvalu 0.0
  Micronesia, Federated States of 0.0
  Bhutan 4.3
  United Arab Emirates 11.7
  Syria 7.4