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 (%)
  Sao Tome e Principe 20.0
  New Zealand 44.1
  Ecuador 34.2
  Ukraine 35.9
  Croatia 36.4
  Spain 16.4
  North Macedonia 12.3
  Liechtenstein 83.3
  Iceland 30.5
  Bulgaria 21.5
  Andorra 29.5
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Morocco 37.6
  Germany 20.8
  Central African Republic 65.3
  Sweden 27.0
  Denmark 38.8
  Azerbaijan 22.5
  Colombia 22.1
  Paraguay 67.0
  Netherlands 29.2
  Armenia 53.3
  Serbia 20.4
  Luxembourg 48.9
  Switzerland 46.1
  Portugal 22.1
  San Marino 100.0
  Romania 13.0
  Montenegro 42.1
  Monaco 46.2
  New Caledonia (France) 12.1
  French Polynesia (France) 19.0
  Martinique (France) 37.0
  Guadeloupe (France) 27.0
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 27.9
  Reunion (France) 21.5
  Mayotte (France) 56.5
  Seychelles 27.3
  Chile 37.1
  Hong Kong (China) 37.5
  Panama 35.2
  Kuwait 14.6
  Canada 46.6
  Hungary 22.8
  Papua New Guinea 42.9
  Nauru 34.2
  Japan 13.4
  Tonga 33.0
  Lithuania 11.8
  Australia 38.0
  Thailand 19.1
  Greece 24.7
  Poland 11.3
  Estonia 17.2
  United Kingdom: Scotland 27.0
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 41.2
  Turkey 13.9
  Slovenia 28.2
  Slovakia 13.4
  Norway 29.5
  Malta 43.9
  Ireland, Republic of 18.3
  France 30.9
  Belgium 36.2
  Austria 20.3
  Albania 62.6
  Zimbabwe 22.2
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 18.7
  Italy 25.1
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 20.5
  Georgia 18.3
  Czech Republic 8.0
  Taiwan 5.9
  Sri Lanka 65.0
  Indonesia 19.9
  Peru 37.1
  Mexico 37.6
  Nigeria 68.6
  Ghana 10.6
  Burundi 52.9
  Honduras 53.7
  Uganda 45.8
  Sierra Leone 51.1
  Dominican Republic 53.9
  Lebanon 87.1
  Cambodia 26.6
  Grenada 20.4
  Mozambique 28.1
  Madagascar 47.0
  Cote d'Ivoire 33.2
  Costa Rica 16.0
  Kenya 41.0
  Angola 48.7
  India 75.8
  Dominica 50.2
  Vietnam 11.5
  Mauritius 51.9
  Niger 61.8
  Kosovo/Kosova 35.6
  Rwanda 14.0
  Libya 29.0
  Comoros 43.6
  Argentina 41.7
  South Africa 35.6
  Jordan 36.9
  Guatemala 47.2
  Bangladesh 75.6
  Nepal 53.0
  Senegal 53.8
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 31.7
  Macau (China) 12.7
  Bolivia 66.2
  Brazil 26.9
  Mali 69.0
  Uruguay 12.7
  Guam (USA) 54.3
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 20.5
  Finland 22.8
  Latvia 22.7
  Fiji 19.9
  Democratic Republic of Congo 70.0
  Israel 25.2
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Qatar 24.7
  United States of America 25.5
  Moldova (Republic of) 17.1
  Uzbekistan 10.0
  South Sudan 28.9
  Liberia 71.2
  Cuba
  El Salvador 23.1
  Belize 36.4
  Cyprus (Republic of) 24.1
  Zambia 20.1
  Malaysia 41.7
  Cameroon 58.0
  Benin 66.6
  St. Lucia 67.8
  Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 29.6
  Aruba (Netherlands) 57.1
  Antigua and Barbuda 43.3
  Afghanistan 31.3
  Burkina Faso 29.9
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 24.3
  Kyrgyzstan 20.5
  Republic of (South) Korea 34.9
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 65.9
  Greenland (Denmark) 21.4
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 45.5
  Egypt 33.3
  Pakistan 70.0
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 37.0
  Trinidad and Tobago 59.7
  St. Kitts and Nevis 30.5
  Puerto Rico (USA) 13.1
  Jamaica 22.5
  Barbados 54.7
  Tanzania 50.0
  Mauritania 50.0
  Eswatini/Swaziland 24.5
  Botswana 22.5
  Singapore 11.3
  Haiti 84.6
  Guyana 27.0
  Russian Federation 25.5
  Philippines 65.2
  Vanuatu 32.3
  Gambia 55.6
  Samoa 23.2
  Maldives 14.3
  Kazakhstan 20.3
  Tajikistan 14.1
  Curaçao (Netherlands) 41.0
  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) 23.2
  Solomon Islands 46.8
  American Samoa (USA) 70.1
  Iraq 29.8
  Virgin Islands (USA) 36.4
  Gabon 80.2
  Venezuela 62.5
  Suriname 50.0
  Equatorial Guinea
  Chad 63.4
  Guinea (Republic of) 54.2
  Palau 4.1
  Mongolia 24.3
  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
  Yemen 59.0
  Guinea Bissau 67.9
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 28.1
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 26.8
  Turkmenistan 14.0
  China
  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 18.1
  Bermuda (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Bahamas 37.0
  Saudi Arabia 48.3
  Djibouti 35.8
  Congo (Republic of) 60.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 19.8
  Brunei Darussalam 7.1
  Iran 25.1
  Belarus 16.6
  Marshall Islands 11.4
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 14.6
  Nicaragua 21.4
  Bahrain 25.7
  Sudan 20.4
  Ethiopia 14.9
  Eritrea
  Kiribati 5.4
  Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea
  Federal Republic of Somalia
  Oman 5.6
  Tuvalu 0.0
  Micronesia, Federated States of 16.7
  Bhutan
  United Arab Emirates 38.2
  Syria 50.5