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 (%)
  Australia 42.2
  Kenya 42.9
  Turkey 15.9
  Austria 19.1
  Sri Lanka 72.4
  Tunisia 54.9
  India 73.5
  South Africa 37.3
  Bangladesh 73.1
  Ecuador 35.8
  New Zealand 40.4
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 33.7
  Seychelles 24.5
  Macau (China) 22.4
  Guam (USA) 52.8
  Brazil 23.6
  Spain 17.7
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Paraguay 60.8
  Curaçao (Netherlands) 41.7
  Uganda 45.8
  Switzerland 48.8
  Nepal 53.0
  Portugal 24.3
  Albania 58.0
  Panama 35.1
  Chile 35.7
  Hong Kong (China) 40.0
  United States of America 25.5
  Belize 36.4
  Liberia 66.2
  Moldova (Republic of) 20.2
  Romania 9.2
  Thailand 22.5
  Poland 11.3
  Norway 30.6
  Georgia 23.2
  Estonia 24.0
  Czech Republic 8.8
  Taiwan 8.5
  Burundi 47.5
  Djibouti 35.8
  Cyprus (Republic of) 26.0
  Belgium 32.6
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 29.6
  Peru 36.6
  Singapore 12.5
  Jamaica 22.5
  Zimbabwe 18.1
  Pakistan 73.4
  Aruba (Netherlands) 33.3
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 38.5
  Greenland (Denmark) 22.8
  Cambodia 26.6
  Eswatini/Swaziland 24.5
  Japan 15.2
  United Kingdom: Scotland 25.0
  Slovenia 36.8
  Indonesia 21.7
  Colombia 19.1
  Nigeria 65.0
  Mexico 41.1
  Martinique (France) 37.0
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 27.9
  Reunion (France) 21.5
  Haiti 82.0
  Lesotho 19.5
  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
  Mauritius 43.2
  Slovakia 14.1
  New Caledonia (France) 12.1
  Guadeloupe (France) 27.0
  Mayotte (France) 56.5
  Dominican Republic 64.6
  Ghana 11.4
  Dominica 48.1
  Angola 48.5
  Sao Tome e Principe 20.0
  Argentina 38.8
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 28.1
  Niger 62.0
  Vanuatu 16.1
  Rwanda 14.0
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 31.7
  Senegal 48.0
  Uruguay 12.7
  Tajikistan 9.1
  Maldives 24.4
  Kazakhstan 20.3
  Yemen 59.0
  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
  Morocco 37.6
  Bahamas 37.0
  Sweden 28.3
  Germany 26.3
  Azerbaijan 24.3
  Denmark 35.5
  Gabon 70.0
  Virgin Islands (USA) 36.4
  Central African Republic 65.3
  Suriname 32.8
  Serbia 21.5
  Luxembourg 47.3
  Latvia 23.7
  Finland 25.7
  Armenia 53.3
  Palau 4.1
  Fiji 20.6
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 14.6
  Guinea (Republic of) 55.5
  Chad 28.8
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Netherlands 29.2
  Montenegro 47.4
  San Marino 100.0
  Monaco 41.9
  Hungary 22.8
  Somalia (Federal Republic of)
  Kuwait 14.6
  El Salvador 23.1
  French Polynesia (France) 19.0
  Canada 46.6
  Papua New Guinea 42.9
  Nauru 34.2
  Tonga 33.0
  Lithuania 11.8
  Mozambique 28.1
  Madagascar 39.6
  Malaysia 33.6
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 16.1
  Puerto Rico (USA) 13.1
  Grenada 20.4
  Barbados 54.7
  Cameroon 55.5
  Benin 55.0
  Malta 41.6
  Greece 27.6
  Afghanistan 52.2
  St. Lucia 64.4
  Solomon Islands 32.7
  Costa Rica 17.5
  Honduras 49.2
  Zambia 20.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 36.2
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 21.3
  Sierra Leone 51.1
  Lebanon 87.1
  Philippines 65.2
  Guyana 27.0
  Vietnam 11.5
  Jordan 36.9
  Kosovo/Kosova 35.6
  Libya 29.0
  Comoros 43.6
  Guatemala 47.2
  Bolivia 60.7
  Mali 71.7
  Democratic Republic of Congo 70.0
  Israel 25.2
  Qatar 24.7
  Uzbekistan 10.0
  South Sudan 28.9
  Cuba
  Burkina Faso 29.0
  Kyrgyzstan 20.5
  Trinidad and Tobago 59.7
  St. Kitts and Nevis 30.5
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 37.0
  Tanzania 31.4
  Egypt 33.3
  Republic of (South) Korea 35.6
  Antigua and Barbuda 43.3
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 45.5
  Mauritania 50.0
  Botswana 22.5
  Russian Federation 25.5
  Gambia 55.6
  Samoa 23.2
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 23.2
  American Samoa (USA) 70.1
  Iraq 29.8
  Mongolia 24.3
  Venezuela 55.0
  Equatorial Guinea
  Togo 60.0
  Algeria 19.0
  Malawi 17.6
  Namibia 54.0
  Laos 67.0
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 15.1
  Guinea Bissau 67.9
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 26.8
  Turkmenistan 14.0
  China
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Saudi Arabia 48.3
  Congo (Republic of) 60.0
  Brunei Darussalam 7.1
  Iran 25.1
  Belarus 16.6
  Nicaragua 21.4
  Marshall Islands 11.4
  Bahrain 25.7
  Sudan 20.4
  Ethiopia 14.9
  Eritrea
  Kiribati 5.4
  Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea
  Oman 5.6
  Tuvalu 0.0
  Micronesia, Federated States of 16.7
  Bhutan
  United Arab Emirates 38.2
  Syria 50.5