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 (%)
  Angola 48.5
  Sao Tome e Principe 20.0
  South Africa 38.0
  Mauritius 46.2
  Rwanda 14.0
  Niger 64.7
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 31.7
  Seychelles 31.6
  Ghana 10.5
  Nigeria 66.8
  Uganda 46.8
  Morocco 37.6
  Gabon 70.0
  Central African Republic 65.3
  Guinea (Republic of) 55.5
  Chad 28.8
  Somalia (Federal Republic of)
  Reunion (France) 21.5
  Mayotte (France) 56.5
  Benin 55.0
  Zimbabwe 23.5
  Zambia 20.1
  Mozambique 28.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 36.2
  Cameroon 55.5
  Burundi 53.1
  Sierra Leone 51.1
  Madagascar 47.0
  Kenya 42.9
  Libya 29.0
  Comoros 43.6
  Senegal 53.8
  Mali 69.0
  Democratic Republic of Congo 70.0
  South Sudan 28.9
  Liberia 71.2
  Burkina Faso 29.9
  Egypt 33.3
  Tanzania 50.0
  Mauritania 50.0
  Eswatini/Swaziland 24.5
  Botswana 22.5
  Gambia 55.6
  Equatorial Guinea
  Togo 60.0
  Algeria 19.0
  Malawi 17.6
  Namibia 54.0
  Lesotho 19.5
  Tunisia 54.9
  Guinea Bissau 67.9
  Djibouti 35.8
  Congo (Republic of) 60.0
  Sudan 20.4
  Ethiopia 14.9
  Eritrea