Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Total

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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 Prison Population Total
  Tunisia 33000
  South Africa 166008
  Seychelles 476
  Uganda 79494
  Liberia 3398
  Zimbabwe 23654
  Eswatini/Swaziland 4500
  Burundi 10777
  Lesotho 2600
  Nigeria 81746
  Reunion (France) 1552
  Ghana 14023
  Mauritius 2877
  Mayotte (France) 619
  Angola 24068
  Sao Tome e Principe 300
  Niger 15831
  Rwanda 87621
  Senegal 14147
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 2700
  Morocco 102653
  Gabon 5501
  Central African Republic 2678
  Guinea (Republic of) 5549
  Chad 9589
  Somalia (Federal Republic of) 2799
  Benin 19563
  Zambia 28225
  Mozambique 22000
  Cote d'Ivoire 27149
  Cameroon 34419
  Sierra Leone 4453
  Madagascar 30530
  Kenya 60000
  Libya 19103
  Comoros 422
  Mali 10773
  Democratic Republic of Congo 44536
  South Sudan 8400
  Tanzania 26802
  Burkina Faso 8911
  Egypt 120000
  Mauritania 2826
  Botswana 3971
  Gambia 543
  Equatorial Guinea 500
  Togo 4990
  Algeria 94749
  Malawi 16536
  Namibia 8900
  Guinea Bissau 596
  Djibouti 750
  Congo (Republic of) 1388
  Sudan 21000
  Ethiopia 110000
  Eritrea