Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate

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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 Rate
  Turkey 418
  France 115
  United Kingdom: Scotland 147
  United Kingdom: Northern Ireland 97
  United Kingdom: England & Wales 146
  Slovenia 84
  Slovakia 173
  Poland 196
  Norway 54
  Italy 105
  Ireland, Republic of 91
  Guernsey (United Kingdom) 125
  Georgia 273
  Czech Republic 179
  Austria 100
  Albania 163
  Spain 117
  Ukraine 116
  Croatia 106
  North Macedonia 142
  Liechtenstein 15
  Iceland 36
  Bulgaria 101
  Andorra 74
  Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 153
  Germany 67
  Sweden 80
  Denmark 71
  Azerbaijan 244
  Netherlands 64
  Armenia 79
  Serbia 162
  Luxembourg 106
  Switzerland 77
  Portugal 115
  San Marino 41
  Romania 126
  Montenegro 168
  Monaco 67
  Hungary 192
  Lithuania 156
  Greece 99
  Estonia 129
  Malta 123
  Belgium 104
  Kosovo/Kosova 99
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska 44
  Finland 52
  Latvia 172
  Moldova (Republic of) 235
  Cyprus (Republic of) 103
  Faeroe Islands (Denmark) 23
  Russian Federation 300
  Jersey (United Kingdom) 135
  Gibraltar (United Kingdom) 273
  Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation 83
  Belarus 345