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

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Ranking Title Foreign Prisoners (%)
  Jordan 9.9
  Taiwan 0.7
  Sri Lanka 1.4
  Mexico 1.2
  Ecuador 8.1
  Guatemala 3.2
  Dominican Republic 7.1
  Chile 3.4
  Uganda 1.8
  Nigeria 0.3
  Mauritius 6.4
  Ghana 6.3
  Burundi 1.2
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Moldova (Republic of) 1.5
  Macau (China) 72.1
  Australia 17.1
  Uzbekistan
  Qatar 17.2
  Kuwait 13.5
  Hong Kong (China) 27.1
  Panama 10.1
  South Sudan
  United States of America 7.3
  Turkey 3.8
  Liberia 2.0
  Cuba
  El Salvador 1.3
  Belize 12.3
  Peru 4.1
  Morocco 1.4
  Paraguay 4.2
  Slovakia 2.1
  Kyrgyzstan 3.2
  Republic of (South) Korea 5.0
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  Greenland (Denmark) 0.9
  Honduras 0.7
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.8
  Rwanda 0.3
  Madagascar 0.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 30.0
  Cameroon 4.9
  Burkina Faso 4.1
  Afghanistan 0.9
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 29.1
  Egypt 1.0
  Greece 59.9
  Cyprus (Republic of) 43.3
  Belgium 44.2
  Pakistan 1.2
  Malaysia 18.3
  Lebanon 36.0
  Cambodia 3.7
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Trinidad and Tobago 0.8
  St. Lucia 3.0
  St. Kitts and Nevis 2.1
  Puerto Rico (USA)
  Jamaica 0.2
  Grenada 3.1
  Dominica 7.2
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 28.6
  Barbados 13.8
  Aruba (Netherlands) 50.0
  Antigua and Barbuda 30.6
  Zimbabwe 1.9
  Zambia 2.1
  Tanzania 3.7
  Sierra Leone 0.5
  Mauritania 13.4
  Eswatini/Swaziland 6.0
  Botswana 21.2
  Benin
  Malta 44.0
  Singapore 10.6
  United Kingdom: Scotland 3.9
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 10.5
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 12.1
  Ireland, Republic of 15.1
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 9.7
  Georgia 7.0
  New Zealand 3.0
  Slovenia 31.6
  Portugal 15.9
  Poland 2.6
  Norway 26.0
  Italy 31.2
  Estonia 33.3
  Czech Republic 7.7
  Albania 2.4
  Guyana 1.5
  Romania 1.0
  Lithuania 3.3
  Austria 51.4
  Colombia 1.3
  Thailand 3.5
  New Caledonia (France)
  French Polynesia (France)
  Martinique (France)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 63.0
  Mayotte (France)
  France 24.6
  Russian Federation 6.2
  Philippines 0.3
  Angola 3.1
  Kenya 0.6
  Sweden 22.1
  Iceland 23.3
  Bulgaria 2.4
  Guam (USA) 0.0
  Ukraine 2.3
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 1.4
  Azerbaijan 2.2
  Andorra 57.4
  North Macedonia 7.0
  Seychelles 1.3
  Bangladesh 0.6
  Canada
  Argentina 5.0
  Vanuatu 2.5
  India 1.0
  Croatia 10.8
  Indonesia 0.4
  South Africa 10.5
  Spain 29.5
  Gambia 66.7
  Samoa 0.5
  Maldives 1.1
  Japan 7.0
  Mali
  Uruguay 2.8
  Brazil 0.3
  Bolivia 3.3
  Kazakhstan 3.7
  Costa Rica 15.0
  Tajikistan 4.9
  Central African Republic
  Germany 25.5
  Curaçao (Netherlands)
  Denmark 26.9
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 3.8
  Solomon Islands 1.0
  American Samoa (USA) 62.2
  Iraq
  Virgin Islands (USA) 15.7
  Gabon
  Switzerland 71.0
  Suriname 19.3
  Mozambique 1.5
  Equatorial Guinea
  Chad 1.3
  Netherlands 23.1
  Latvia 1.5
  Serbia 3.7
  Fiji 1.2
  Luxembourg 73.7
  Hungary 11.2
  Finland 16.3
  Israel 38.9
  Venezuela 2.3
  Guinea (Republic of) 2.7
  Palau 6.5
  Armenia 5.9
  Mongolia 0.4
  Togo 5.2
  Libya 12.8
  Democratic Republic of Congo
  Comoros 7.7
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
  Algeria 3.8
  Montenegro 17.7
  Monaco 92.3
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  San Marino 11.1
  Malawi 0.2
  Reunion (France)
  Namibia 8.9
  Senegal 9.1
  Laos
  Haiti
  Lesotho 0.9
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 0.7
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 42.2
  Tunisia 2.5
  Yemen 3.2
  Guinea Bissau 7.1
  Vietnam 0.4
  Nepal 5.1
  Sao Tome e Principe 0.8
  Papua New Guinea 0.4
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 25.2
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 33.9
  Turkmenistan 0.7
  China 0.4
  Niger
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 20.2
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 11.5
  Bahamas
  Saudi Arabia 49.0
  Djibouti
  Kosovo/Kosova 5.7
  Congo (Republic of)
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 3.6
  Brunei Darussalam 29.2
  Iran 2.9
  Belarus 3.1
  Marshall Islands
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 0.0
  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
  Tonga 0.0
  Nauru 6.7
  Micronesia, Federated States of
  Bhutan 6.8
  Somalia
  United Arab Emirates 87.8
  Syria 7.3

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