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 (%)
  Canada
  Chile 3.4
  Mayotte (France)
  Hungary 4.9
  Papua New Guinea 0.4
  Nauru 6.7
  Japan 7.0
  Hong Kong (China) 27.1
  Tonga 0.0
  Lithuania 3.4
  New Caledonia (France)
  French Polynesia (France)
  Martinique (France)
  Guadeloupe (France)
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 63.0
  Reunion (France)
  Seychelles 1.3
  Australia 14.4
  Thailand 2.9
  Portugal 16.9
  Cambodia 3.7
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 10.6
  France 25.0
  Belgium 43.4
  United Kingdom: Scotland 3.9
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 11.9
  Slovenia 29.3
  Poland 3.2
  Norway 25.9
  Italy 31.3
  Ireland, Republic of 15.4
  Georgia 8.5
  Czech Republic 8.2
  Austria 53.5
  Albania 2.1
  Taiwan 0.7
  Sri Lanka 1.4
  Indonesia 0.4
  Mexico 1.2
  Nigeria 0.3
  Ghana 6.5
  Burundi 1.2
  Costa Rica 15.0
  Turkey 3.8
  Slovakia 2.6
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 9.7
  Estonia 33.1
  Peru 4.7
  Dominican Republic 6.9
  Morocco 1.4
  India 1.1
  Dominica 9.2
  Vietnam 0.4
  Iceland 23.3
  New Zealand 3.0
  Mauritius 6.4
  Romania 1.1
  Colombia 1.3
  Niger
  Kosovo/Kosova 5.7
  Rwanda 0.3
  Libya 12.8
  Mozambique 1.5
  Comoros 7.7
  Argentina 4.9
  South Africa 10.5
  Jordan 9.9
  Ecuador 8.1
  Bangladesh 0.6
  Guatemala 3.2
  Uganda 1.8
  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
  Croatia 12.0
  Spain 29.1
  North Macedonia 7.0
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  Bulgaria 3.7
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 1.5
  Andorra 70.6
  Sweden 22.1
  Germany 27.0
  Azerbaijan 2.0
  Paraguay 4.2
  Fiji 1.2
  Democratic Republic of Congo
  Israel 38.9
  Serbia 3.8
  Luxembourg 73.7
  Latvia 1.8
  Finland 16.3
  Armenia 5.4
  Netherlands 23.1
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  United States of America 7.3
  San Marino 11.1
  Montenegro 15.1
  Monaco 92.9
  Moldova (Republic of) 1.5
  Uzbekistan
  Qatar 17.2
  Kuwait 13.5
  Panama 10.1
  South Sudan
  Liberia 2.0
  Cuba
  El Salvador 1.3
  Belize 12.3
  Lebanon 36.0
  Malta 47.4
  St. Lucia 3.0
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 34.1
  Aruba (Netherlands) 28.6
  Antigua and Barbuda 30.6
  Afghanistan 0.9
  Zambia 2.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 30.0
  Burkina Faso 4.1
  Zimbabwe 2.5
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.8
  Greece 58.6
  Cyprus (Republic of) 52.1
  Kyrgyzstan 3.2
  Republic of (South) Korea 5.0
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark)
  Greenland (Denmark) 0.9
  Honduras 0.7
  Madagascar 0.1
  Cameroon 4.9
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 29.1
  Egypt 1.0
  Pakistan 1.2
  Malaysia 18.3
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  Trinidad and Tobago 0.8
  St. Kitts and Nevis 2.1
  Puerto Rico (USA)
  Jamaica 0.2
  Grenada 3.1
  Barbados 13.8
  Tanzania 3.7
  Sierra Leone 0.5
  Mauritania 13.4
  Eswatini/Swaziland 6.0
  Botswana 21.2
  Benin
  Singapore 10.6
  Haiti
  Guyana 1.5
  Russian Federation 6.2
  Philippines 0.3
  Kenya 0.6
  Angola 3.1
  Ukraine 2.3
  Vanuatu 2.5
  Gambia 66.7
  Samoa 0.5
  Maldives 1.1
  Kazakhstan 3.7
  Tajikistan 4.9
  Denmark 26.9
  Central African Republic
  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
  Switzerland 71.0
  Suriname 19.3
  Equatorial Guinea
  Chad 1.3
  Venezuela 2.3
  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
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 1.1
  Tunisia 2.5
  Yemen 3.2
  Guinea Bissau 7.1
  Sao Tome e Principe 0.8
  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
  Somalia
  Oman 30.3
  Tuvalu 0.0
  Micronesia, Federated States of
  Bhutan 6.8
  United Arab Emirates 87.8
  Syria 7.3