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 (%)
  Tunisia 2.5
  India 1.3
  South Africa 14.9
  Bangladesh 0.6
  Ecuador 9.8
  New Zealand 3.0
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 20.2
  Seychelles 1.3
  Macau (China) 66.0
  Guam (USA) 0.0
  Brazil 0.3
  Spain 32.7
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 1.1
  Paraguay 24.4
  Curaçao (Netherlands)
  Uganda 1.8
  Switzerland 72.5
  Nepal 5.1
  Hong Kong (China) 31.0
  Portugal 18.0
  Albania 2.4
  Panama 7.0
  Chile 14.2
  United States of America 6.6
  Belize 5.9
  Liberia 6.6
  Moldova (Republic of) 1.9
  Romania 1.1
  Thailand 3.4
  Djibouti 22.8
  Cyprus (Republic of) 57.6
  Belgium 41.4
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 33.7
  Poland 4.2
  Georgia 13.9
  Estonia 10.5
  Czech Republic 8.6
  Taiwan 0.7
  Peru 5.6
  Burundi 1.2
  Singapore 9.3
  Jamaica 1.0
  Zimbabwe 2.5
  Pakistan 1.1
  Aruba (Netherlands) 28.6
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  Greenland (Denmark) 0.9
  Norway 28.3
  Cambodia 6.5
  Eswatini/Swaziland 6.0
  Japan 6.9
  Slovenia 52.5
  United Kingdom: Scotland 7.6
  Turkey 4.2
  Indonesia 0.4
  Mexico 1.4
  Colombia 1.2
  Nigeria 0.3
  Martinique (France) 17.0
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 63.0
  Reunion (France)
  Haiti
  Lesotho 0.9
  Mauritius 6.4
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 10.3
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 12.7
  Slovakia 5.2
  Italy 31.6
  Ireland, Republic of 15.8
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 9.7
  France 24.6
  Austria 52.7
  Sri Lanka 1.4
  New Caledonia (France)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  Mayotte (France)
  Dominican Republic 7.1
  Ghana 7.1
  Dominica 9.6
  Angola 3.1
  Sao Tome e Principe 0.8
  Argentina 4.6
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 25.2
  Niger
  Vanuatu 2.5
  Rwanda 0.3
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 4.5
  Senegal 9.6
  Uruguay 2.3
  Tajikistan 1.6
  Maldives 8.8
  Kazakhstan 3.7
  Yemen 3.2
  Ukraine 1.9
  North Macedonia 7.1
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  Iceland 40.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 1.4
  Andorra 80.3
  Croatia 17.5
  Bulgaria 3.9
  Morocco 1.5
  Bahamas 9.3
  Sweden 16.7
  Germany 48.8
  Azerbaijan 2.0
  Denmark 27.0
  Gabon 13.8
  Virgin Islands (USA) 15.7
  Central African Republic
  Suriname 10.3
  Serbia 6.3
  Luxembourg 75.4
  Latvia 3.5
  Finland 20.2
  Armenia 8.1
  Palau 6.5
  Fiji 1.7
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 0.0
  Guinea (Republic of) 2.7
  Chad 1.3
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Netherlands 25.2
  Montenegro 16.1
  San Marino 66.7
  Monaco 93.5
  Hungary 5.0
  Australia 14.4
  Somalia (Federal Republic of)
  Kuwait 13.5
  El Salvador 1.3
  French Polynesia (France)
  Canada
  Papua New Guinea 0.4
  Nauru 6.7
  Tonga 0.0
  Lithuania 3.4
  Mozambique 3.3
  Madagascar 0.2
  Malaysia 18.3
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1.0
  Puerto Rico (USA) 1.2
  Grenada 4.8
  Barbados 9.1
  Cameroon 4.6
  Benin 8.8
  Malta 51.9
  Greece 54.1
  Afghanistan 0.7
  St. Lucia 1.7
  Solomon Islands 1.0
  Costa Rica 15.2
  Honduras 0.6
  Zambia 2.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 30.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 3.6
  Sierra Leone 0.4
  Lebanon 36.0
  Philippines 0.2
  Guyana 3.2
  Kenya 1.5
  Vietnam 0.4
  Jordan 9.9
  Kosovo/Kosova 5.7
  Libya 12.8
  Comoros 7.7
  Guatemala 2.3
  Bolivia 3.5
  Mali
  Democratic Republic of Congo
  Israel 38.9
  Qatar 84.8
  Uzbekistan
  South Sudan
  Cuba
  Burkina Faso 4.1
  Kyrgyzstan 5.1
  Trinidad and Tobago 3.7
  St. Kitts and Nevis 8.0
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Tanzania 5.9
  Egypt 1.0
  Republic of (South) Korea 5.1
  Antigua and Barbuda 30.6
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 29.1
  Mauritania 13.4
  Botswana 21.2
  Russian Federation 7.1
  Gambia 66.7
  Samoa 0.5
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 3.8
  American Samoa (USA) 62.2
  Iraq
  Mongolia 0.4
  Venezuela 2.0
  Equatorial Guinea
  Togo 5.2
  Algeria 3.8
  Malawi 0.2
  Namibia 8.9
  Laos
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 0.7
  Guinea Bissau 7.1
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 33.9
  Turkmenistan 0.7
  China 0.4
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 11.4
  Saudi Arabia 51.4
  Congo (Republic of)
  Brunei Darussalam 29.2
  Iran 2.9
  Belarus 3.1
  Nicaragua 1.0
  Marshall Islands
  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