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 (%)
  Sao Tome e Principe 0.8
  New Zealand 3.0
  Ecuador 8.1
  Ukraine 2.1
  Croatia 10.5
  Spain 30.1
  North Macedonia 7.4
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  Iceland 39.7
  Bulgaria 3.9
  Andorra 60.7
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 1.1
  Morocco 1.5
  Germany 39.5
  Central African Republic
  Sweden 16.7
  Denmark 29.0
  Azerbaijan 1.9
  Colombia 1.3
  Paraguay 4.2
  Netherlands 25.2
  Armenia 6.2
  Serbia 4.1
  Luxembourg 77.7
  Switzerland 72.3
  Portugal 17.2
  San Marino 71.4
  Romania 1.1
  Montenegro 14.5
  Monaco 88.5
  New Caledonia (France)
  French Polynesia (France)
  Martinique (France)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 63.0
  Reunion (France)
  Mayotte (France)
  Seychelles 1.3
  Chile 3.4
  Hong Kong (China) 27.1
  Panama 10.1
  Kuwait 13.5
  Canada
  Hungary 4.9
  Papua New Guinea 0.4
  Nauru 6.7
  Japan 7.0
  Tonga 0.0
  Lithuania 3.4
  Australia 14.4
  Thailand 2.9
  Greece 56.8
  Poland 3.4
  Estonia 32.8
  United Kingdom: Scotland 3.9
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 11.3
  Turkey 4.4
  Slovenia 34.0
  Slovakia 4.1
  Norway 26.3
  Malta 47.4
  Ireland, Republic of 14.6
  France 25.1
  Belgium 41.5
  Austria 53.2
  Albania 2.8
  Zimbabwe 2.5
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 11.9
  Italy 31.3
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 9.7
  Georgia 9.2
  Czech Republic 8.2
  Taiwan 0.7
  Sri Lanka 1.4
  Indonesia 0.4
  Peru 5.0
  Mexico 1.2
  Nigeria 0.3
  Ghana 6.5
  Burundi 1.2
  Honduras 0.7
  Uganda 1.8
  Sierra Leone 0.4
  Dominican Republic 7.2
  Lebanon 36.0
  Cambodia 3.7
  Grenada 3.1
  Mozambique 1.5
  Madagascar 0.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 30.0
  Costa Rica 15.0
  Kenya 0.6
  Angola 3.1
  India 1.1
  Dominica 9.2
  Vietnam 0.4
  Mauritius 6.4
  Niger
  Kosovo/Kosova 5.7
  Rwanda 0.3
  Libya 12.8
  Comoros 7.7
  Argentina 4.9
  South Africa 10.5
  Jordan 9.9
  Guatemala 3.2
  Bangladesh 0.6
  Nepal 5.1
  Senegal 9.1
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
  Macau (China) 72.1
  Bolivia 3.3
  Brazil 0.3
  Mali
  Uruguay 2.8
  Guam (USA) 0.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 1.5
  Finland 16.9
  Latvia 2.4
  Fiji 1.2
  Democratic Republic of Congo
  Israel 38.9
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Qatar 84.8
  United States of America 7.3
  Moldova (Republic of) 1.5
  Uzbekistan
  South Sudan
  Liberia 2.0
  Cuba
  El Salvador 1.3
  Belize 12.3
  Cyprus (Republic of) 55.2
  Zambia 2.1
  Malaysia 18.3
  Cameroon 4.9
  Benin
  St. Lucia 3.0
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 34.1
  Aruba (Netherlands) 28.6
  Antigua and Barbuda 30.6
  Afghanistan 0.9
  Burkina Faso 4.1
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.8
  Kyrgyzstan 3.2
  Republic of (South) Korea 5.0
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  Greenland (Denmark) 0.9
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 29.1
  Egypt 1.0
  Pakistan 1.2
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Trinidad and Tobago 0.8
  St. Kitts and Nevis 2.1
  Puerto Rico (USA)
  Jamaica 0.2
  Barbados 13.8
  Tanzania 3.7
  Mauritania 13.4
  Eswatini/Swaziland 6.0
  Botswana 21.2
  Singapore 10.6
  Haiti
  Guyana 1.5
  Russian Federation 6.2
  Philippines 0.3
  Vanuatu 2.5
  Gambia 66.7
  Samoa 0.5
  Maldives 1.1
  Kazakhstan 3.7
  Tajikistan 4.9
  Curaçao (Netherlands)
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 3.8
  Solomon Islands 1.0
  American Samoa (USA) 62.2
  Iraq
  Virgin Islands (USA) 15.7
  Gabon
  Venezuela 2.3
  Suriname 19.3
  Equatorial Guinea
  Chad 1.3
  Guinea (Republic of) 2.7
  Palau 6.5
  Mongolia 0.4
  Togo 5.2
  Algeria 3.8
  Malawi 0.2
  Namibia 8.9
  Laos
  Lesotho 0.9
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 0.7
  Tunisia 2.5
  Yemen 3.2
  Guinea Bissau 7.1
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 25.2
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 33.9
  Turkmenistan 0.7
  China 0.4
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 20.2
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 11.5
  Bahamas
  Saudi Arabia 49.0
  Djibouti
  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
  Federal Republic of Somalia
  Oman 30.3
  Tuvalu 0.0
  Micronesia, Federated States of
  Bhutan 6.8
  United Arab Emirates 87.8
  Syria 7.3