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 (%)
  Ecuador 32.9
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Paraguay 64.9
  Romania 9.2
  Thailand 22.5
  Portugal 21.9
  Albania 61.5
  Belgium 36.2
  Poland 10.8
  Norway 30.2
  Georgia 19.8
  Czech Republic 8.5
  Taiwan 6.6
  Japan 15.2
  Estonia 20.2
  Turkey 14.0
  United Kingdom: Scotland 27.3
  Slovenia 28.2
  Mexico 37.9
  Colombia 20.0
  Nigeria 65.4
  Indonesia 20.0
  Martinique (France) 37.0
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 27.9
  Reunion (France) 21.5
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 36.5
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 20.3
  Slovakia 14.2
  Italy 24.2
  Ireland, Republic of 17.6
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 21.8
  France 31.1
  Austria 18.6
  Sri Lanka 67.6
  Dominican Republic 61.9
  Mauritius 46.3
  Ghana 10.5
  New Caledonia (France) 12.1
  Guadeloupe (France) 27.0
  Mayotte (France) 56.5
  Dominica 48.1
  Angola 48.5
  Sao Tome e Principe 20.0
  Vanuatu 16.1
  South Africa 38.0
  Rwanda 14.0
  Niger 64.7
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 28.1
  Argentina 38.8
  New Zealand 41.4
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 31.7
  Bangladesh 75.6
  Seychelles 31.6
  Macau (China) 22.4
  Uganda 46.8
  Tajikistan 14.1
  Kazakhstan 20.3
  Guam (USA) 54.3
  Brazil 24.2
  Yemen 59.0
  Uruguay 12.7
  Croatia 41.4
  Andorra 29.5
  Ukraine 35.9
  North Macedonia 12.3
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  Iceland 30.5
  Bulgaria 21.5
  Spain 17.5
  Morocco 37.6
  Gabon 70.0
  Bahamas 37.0
  Sweden 27.0
  Germany 20.8
  Denmark 38.8
  Virgin Islands (USA) 36.4
  Central African Republic 65.3
  Azerbaijan 22.5
  Palau 4.1
  Fiji 20.6
  Suriname 32.8
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 14.6
  Guinea (Republic of) 55.5
  Chad 28.8
  Luxembourg 48.9
  Latvia 23.7
  Armenia 53.3
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Netherlands 29.2
  Serbia 20.4
  Switzerland 46.1
  Panama 35.1
  Hong Kong (China) 40.0
  Chile 35.3
  Australia 40.6
  United States of America 25.8
  Somalia (Federal Republic of)
  Kuwait 14.6
  Belize 34.7
  El Salvador 23.1
  San Marino 100.0
  Montenegro 48.3
  Monaco 46.2
  French Polynesia (France) 19.0
  Canada 46.6
  Hungary 22.8
  Papua New Guinea 42.9
  Nauru 34.2
  Tonga 33.0
  Lithuania 11.8
  Solomon Islands 32.7
  Malaysia 33.6
  Peru 37.9
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 29.6
  Costa Rica 17.5
  Singapore 12.5
  Benin 55.0
  Greenland (Denmark) 24.7
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 50.0
  Cambodia 26.6
  Honduras 49.2
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 16.1
  Barbados 54.7
  Zimbabwe 23.5
  Zambia 20.1
  Mozambique 28.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 36.2
  Cameroon 55.5
  Pakistan 70.0
  Malta 43.9
  Greece 24.7
  Cyprus (Republic of) 24.1
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 21.3
  Burundi 53.1
  Puerto Rico (USA) 13.1
  Sierra Leone 51.1
  Lebanon 87.1
  Grenada 20.4
  Madagascar 47.0
  Haiti 83.0
  Philippines 65.2
  Guyana 27.0
  Kenya 42.9
  India 75.8
  Vietnam 11.5
  Jordan 36.9
  Kosovo/Kosova 35.6
  Libya 29.0
  Comoros 43.6
  Guatemala 47.2
  Nepal 53.0
  Senegal 53.8
  Bolivia 60.7
  Mali 69.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 20.5
  Finland 22.8
  Democratic Republic of Congo 70.0
  Israel 25.2
  Moldova (Republic of) 17.0
  Qatar 24.7
  Uzbekistan 10.0
  South Sudan 28.9
  Liberia 71.2
  Cuba
  Egypt 33.3
  Republic of (South) Korea 35.6
  Kyrgyzstan 20.5
  St. Lucia 67.8
  Aruba (Netherlands) 57.1
  Antigua and Barbuda 43.3
  Afghanistan 31.3
  Burkina Faso 29.9
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 45.5
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 37.0
  Trinidad and Tobago 59.7
  St. Kitts and Nevis 30.5
  Jamaica 22.5
  Tanzania 50.0
  Mauritania 50.0
  Eswatini/Swaziland 24.5
  Botswana 22.5
  Russian Federation 25.5
  Gambia 55.6
  Samoa 23.2
  Maldives 14.3
  Curaçao (Netherlands) 41.0
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 23.2
  American Samoa (USA) 70.1
  Iraq 29.8
  Mongolia 24.3
  Venezuela 62.5
  Equatorial Guinea
  Togo 60.0
  Algeria 19.0
  Malawi 17.6
  Namibia 54.0
  Laos 67.0
  Lesotho 19.5
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 15.1
  Tunisia 54.9
  Guinea Bissau 67.9
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 26.8
  Turkmenistan 14.0
  China
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 18.1
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Djibouti 35.8
  Saudi Arabia 48.3
  Congo (Republic of) 60.0
  Brunei Darussalam 7.1
  Iran 25.1
  Belarus 16.6
  Marshall Islands 11.4
  Nicaragua 21.4
  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