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 (%)
  Tunisia 54.9
  South Africa 37.3
  Bangladesh 75.6
  New Zealand 41.3
  Ecuador 33.9
  Seychelles 26.5
  Guam (USA) 52.8
  Macau (China) 22.4
  Brazil 23.6
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 20.2
  Paraguay 62.6
  Switzerland 48.8
  Nepal 53.0
  Uganda 47.1
  Portugal 22.8
  Albania 59.4
  Chile 35.6
  Hong Kong (China) 40.0
  Belize 36.4
  Liberia 66.2
  Moldova (Republic of) 20.2
  Romania 9.2
  Thailand 22.5
  Belgium 32.6
  Poland 10.9
  Norway 29.5
  Georgia 20.4
  Estonia 20.2
  Czech Republic 8.6
  Taiwan 7.7
  Peru 38.1
  Burundi 45.2
  Cambodia 26.6
  Zimbabwe 20.3
  Eswatini/Swaziland 24.5
  Japan 15.2
  Slovenia 39.8
  United Kingdom: Scotland 25.2
  Turkey 13.9
  Indonesia 20.1
  Mexico 39.3
  Colombia 18.8
  Nigeria 65.2
  Lesotho 19.5
  Haiti 83.0
  Martinique (France) 37.0
  French Guiana/Guyane (France) 27.9
  Reunion (France) 21.5
  Ghana 10.9
  Austria 18.8
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 39.3
  Slovakia 14.2
  Ireland, Republic of 16.8
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 20.5
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 20.3
  Italy 23.8
  France 31.6
  Sri Lanka 67.9
  Dominican Republic 64.5
  Mauritius 43.1
  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
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 28.1
  Niger 62.0
  Vanuatu 16.1
  Rwanda 14.0
  Argentina 38.8
  Senegal 48.0
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 31.7
  Tajikistan 9.1
  Maldives 24.4
  Kazakhstan 20.3
  Yemen 59.0
  Uruguay 12.7
  Ukraine 36.5
  Spain 17.5
  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
  Sweden 28.3
  Germany 26.3
  Azerbaijan 24.3
  Denmark 35.5
  Bahamas 37.0
  Gabon 70.0
  Virgin Islands (USA) 36.4
  Central African Republic 65.3
  Serbia 21.5
  Luxembourg 47.3
  Latvia 23.7
  Finland 25.7
  Armenia 53.3
  Palau 4.1
  Fiji 20.6
  Suriname 32.8
  Cook Islands (New Zealand) 14.6
  Guinea (Republic of) 55.5
  Chad 28.8
  Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
  Netherlands 29.2
  San Marino 100.0
  Montenegro 47.4
  Monaco 41.9
  Hungary 22.8
  Panama 35.0
  Australia 40.6
  United States of America 25.8
  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
  Malta 41.6
  Greece 27.6
  Cyprus (Republic of) 30.8
  Afghanistan 52.2
  St. Lucia 64.4
  Grenada 20.4
  Solomon Islands 32.7
  Malaysia 33.6
  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
  Honduras 49.2
  St. Vincent and the Grenadines 16.1
  Barbados 54.7
  Zambia 20.1
  Mozambique 28.1
  Cote d'Ivoire 36.2
  Cameroon 55.5
  Pakistan 70.0
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 21.3
  Puerto Rico (USA) 13.1
  Sierra Leone 51.1
  Lebanon 87.1
  Madagascar 47.0
  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
  Mali 71.7
  Bolivia 60.7
  Democratic Republic of Congo 70.0
  Israel 25.2
  Qatar 24.7
  Uzbekistan 10.0
  South Sudan 28.9
  Cuba
  Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 37.0
  Tanzania 31.4
  Burkina Faso 29.0
  Egypt 33.3
  Republic of (South) Korea 35.6
  Kyrgyzstan 20.5
  Aruba (Netherlands) 57.1
  Antigua and Barbuda 43.3
  Anguilla (United Kingdom) 45.5
  Trinidad and Tobago 59.7
  St. Kitts and Nevis 30.5
  Jamaica 22.5
  Mauritania 50.0
  Botswana 22.5
  Russian Federation 25.5
  Gambia 55.6
  Samoa 23.2
  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
  Myanmar (formerly Burma) 15.1
  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