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Ranking Title Prison Population Total Prison Population Rate Pre-trial Detainees (%) Female Prisoners (%) Foreign Prisoners (%) Occupancy Level (%)
  Moldova (Republic of) 6084 236 17.1 5.4 1.5 91.9
  Turkey 336315 392 12.3 3.9 3.8 117.3
  Slovakia 10112 187 14.1 7.6 2.1 87.4
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 12 23 65.9 0.0 87.9
  Greece 10723 102 23.5 4.7 59.9 105.4
  Cyprus (Republic of) 791 87 26.5 4.7 43.3 145.7
  Belgium 11326 97 38.4 4.9 44.2 116.1
  Malta 589 113 33.9 7.1 44.0 88.6
  United Kingdom: Scotland 7588 138 28.2 4.0 3.9 96.3
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 1853 97 39.6 4.4 10.5 75.1
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 84658 141 17.3 3.9 12.1 109.8
  Ireland, Republic of 4568 89 17.3 4.7 15.1 103.6
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 76 115 21.1 7.9 9.7 79.1
  Georgia 9627 264 19.4 3.5 7.0 82.6
  Slovenia 1454 69 33.1 4.9 31.6 108.1
  Portugal 12610 122 20.8 7.3 15.9 98.0
  Poland 78113 209 10.7 5.0 2.6 92.5
  Norway 3069 57 27.4 5.9 26.0 79.5
  Italy 56605 96 26.2 4.4 31.2 110.4
  Estonia 2062 155 16.0 4.8 33.3 66.5
  Czech Republic 19684 187 7.8 8.6 7.7 97.8
  Albania 4891 178 54.2 1.3 2.4 74.7
  Romania 23079 122 12.0 4.4 1.0 120.7
  Lithuania 4955 177 11.0 4.1 3.3 74.5
  Austria 8764 97 20.6 6.7 51.4 103.4
  France 72173 106 30.3 4.3 24.6 119.0
  Russian Federation 433006 300 25.5 8.9 6.2 67.0
  Sweden 7713 74 30.6 5.8 22.1 98.6
  Iceland 140 37 18.0 6.0 23.3 80.0
  Bulgaria 6384 93 20.9 3.1 2.4 78.2
  Ukraine 48038 123 35.6 3.9 2.3 54.4
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 554 46 21.0 1.6 1.4 40.0
  Azerbaijan 22334 220 21.8 2.7 2.2 87.7
  Andorra 46 58 42.6 13.1 57.4 31.3
  North Macedonia 2220 107 12.0 2.7 7.0 70.7
  Croatia 3955 102 32.3 5.9 10.8 106.0
  Spain 55093 116 16.1 7.1 29.5 73.7
  Germany 56557 67 20.6 5.6 25.5 78.1
  Denmark 4248 72 39.3 4.8 26.9 99.6
  Switzerland 6445 73 45.8 5.9 71.0 89.6
  Netherlands 11623 66 32.6 4.6 23.1 73.1
  Latvia 3169 169 24.2 7.2 1.5 65.7
  Serbia 10557 155 18.6 4.3 3.7 92.2
  Luxembourg 685 106 46.3 5.4 73.7 96.5
  Hungary 18800 194 22.6 7.5 11.2 99.7
  Finland 2827 51 23.2 7.1 16.3 94.3
  Armenia 2113 71 46.5 2.3 5.9 39.5
  Montenegro 929 150 42.2 3.2 17.7 69.7
  Monaco 13 33 61.5 7.7 92.3 13.4
  Liechtenstein 11 28 91.7 0.0 83.3 55.0
  San Marino 9 26 88.9 11.1 11.1 112.5
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 109 126 20.2 6.4 42.2 79.0
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 146 135 28.1 6.8 25.2 69.5
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 92 273 26.8 7.1 33.9 93.9
  Kosovo/Kosova 1642 93 36.4 2.7 5.7 97.1
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 1813 83 19.8 3.2 3.6 98.3
  Belarus 32556 345 16.6 10.8 3.1 83.4