Highest to Lowest - Pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners

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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 Pre-trial Detainees (%)
  Turkey 15.9
  Austria 19.1
  Spain 17.7
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Switzerland 48.8
  Portugal 24.3
  Albania 58.0
  Moldova (Republic of) 20.2
  Romania 9.2
  Poland 11.3
  Norway 30.6
  Georgia 23.2
  Estonia 24.0
  Czech Republic 8.8
  Cyprus (Republic of) 26.0
  Belgium 32.6
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 38.5
  United Kingdom: Scotland 25.0
  Slovenia 36.8
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 39.3
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 20.2
  Italy 24.1
  Ireland, Republic of 19.4
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 26.8
  France 31.5
  Slovakia 14.1
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 28.1
  Ukraine 36.5
  North Macedonia 12.1
  Liechtenstein 75.0
  Iceland 32.1
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 22.7
  Andorra 31.1
  Croatia 41.4
  Bulgaria 21.5
  Sweden 28.3
  Germany 26.3
  Azerbaijan 24.3
  Denmark 35.5
  Serbia 21.5
  Luxembourg 47.3
  Latvia 23.7
  Finland 25.7
  Armenia 53.3
  Netherlands 29.2
  Montenegro 47.4
  San Marino 100.0
  Monaco 41.9
  Hungary 22.8
  Lithuania 11.8
  Malta 41.6
  Greece 27.6
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 21.3
  Kosovo/Kosova 35.6
  Russian Federation 25.5
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 26.8
  Belarus 16.6

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