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
  South Africa 14.9
  Bangladesh 0.6
  New Zealand 3.0
  Ecuador 8.1
  Seychelles 1.3
  Guam (USA) 0.0
  Macau (China) 72.1
  Brazil 0.3
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 1.1
  Paraguay 24.4
  Switzerland 72.5
  Nepal 5.1
  Uganda 1.8
  Portugal 17.5
  Albania 2.4
  Chile 3.4
  Hong Kong (China) 30.7
  Belize 5.9
  Liberia 6.6
  Moldova (Republic of) 1.9
  Romania 1.1
  Thailand 3.4
  Belgium 41.4
  Poland 4.1
  Norway 29.4
  Georgia 12.9
  Estonia 10.5
  Czech Republic 8.5
  Taiwan 0.7
  Peru 5.4
  Burundi 1.2
  Cambodia 6.5
  Zimbabwe 2.5
  Eswatini/Swaziland 6.0
  Japan 6.9
  Slovenia 48.1
  United Kingdom: Scotland 7.6
  Turkey 4.2
  Indonesia 0.4
  Mexico 1.2
  Colombia 1.3
  Nigeria 0.3
  Lesotho 0.9
  Haiti
  Martinique (France)
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 63.0
  Reunion (France)
  Ghana 7.1
  Austria 52.8
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 10.3
  Slovakia 5.2
  Ireland, Republic of 15.8
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 9.7
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 12.3
  Italy 31.5
  France 24.6
  Sri Lanka 1.4
  Dominican Republic 6.9
  Mauritius 6.4
  New Caledonia (France)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  Mayotte (France)
  Dominica 9.6
  Angola 3.1
  Sao Tome e Principe 0.8
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 25.2
  Niger
  Vanuatu 2.5
  Rwanda 0.3
  Argentina 6.8
  Senegal 9.6
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
  Tajikistan 1.6
  Maldives 8.8
  Kazakhstan 3.7
  Yemen 3.2
  Uruguay 2.8
  Ukraine 1.9
  Spain 31.2
  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
  Sweden 16.7
  Germany 48.8
  Azerbaijan 2.0
  Denmark 27.0
  Bahamas
  Gabon 13.8
  Virgin Islands (USA) 15.7
  Central African Republic
  Serbia 6.3
  Luxembourg 75.4
  Latvia 3.5
  Finland 20.2
  Armenia 8.1
  Palau 6.5
  Fiji 1.7
  Suriname 19.3
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 0.0
  Guinea (Republic of) 2.7
  Chad 1.3
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Netherlands 25.2
  San Marino 66.7
  Montenegro 16.1
  Monaco 93.5
  Hungary 5.0
  Panama 10.1
  Australia 14.4
  United States of America 6.6
  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
  Malta 51.9
  Greece 54.1
  Cyprus (Republic of) 57.6
  Afghanistan 0.7
  St. Lucia 1.7
  Grenada 3.1
  Solomon Islands 1.0
  Malaysia 18.3
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 32.9
  Costa Rica 15.2
  Singapore 10.6
  Benin
  Greenland (Denmark) 0.9
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  Honduras 0.6
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.8
  Barbados 13.8
  Zambia 2.1
  Mozambique 1.5
  Cote d'Ivoire 30.0
  Cameroon 4.9
  Pakistan 1.2
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 3.6
  Puerto Rico (USA)
  Sierra Leone 0.4
  Lebanon 36.0
  Madagascar 0.1
  Philippines 0.3
  Guyana 1.5
  Kenya 0.6
  India 1.1
  Vietnam 0.4
  Jordan 9.9
  Kosovo/Kosova 5.7
  Libya 12.8
  Comoros 7.7
  Guatemala 3.2
  Mali
  Bolivia 3.3
  Democratic Republic of Congo
  Israel 38.9
  Qatar 84.8
  Uzbekistan
  South Sudan
  Cuba
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Tanzania 5.9
  Burkina Faso 4.1
  Egypt 1.0
  Republic of (South) Korea 5.1
  Kyrgyzstan 3.2
  Aruba (Netherlands) 28.6
  Antigua and Barbuda 30.6
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 29.1
  Trinidad and Tobago 0.8
  St. Kitts and Nevis 2.1
  Jamaica 0.2
  Mauritania 13.4
  Botswana 21.2
  Russian Federation 6.2
  Gambia 66.7
  Samoa 0.5
  Curaçao (Netherlands)
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 3.8
  American Samoa (USA) 62.2
  Iraq
  Mongolia 0.4
  Venezuela 2.3
  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
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 20.2
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 11.5
  Djibouti
  Saudi Arabia 49.0
  Congo (Republic of)
  Brunei Darussalam 29.2
  Iran 2.9
  Belarus 3.1
  Marshall Islands
  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
  Micronesia, Federated States of
  Bhutan 6.8
  United Arab Emirates 87.8
  Syria 7.3