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
  Tunisia 267
  South Africa 260
  Seychelles 389
  Uganda 153
  Liberia 60
  Zimbabwe 147
  Eswatini/Swaziland 369
  Burundi 79
  Lesotho 117
  Nigeria 35
  Reunion (France) 168
  Ghana 41
  Mauritius 225
  Mayotte (France) 203
  Angola 65
  Sao Tome e Principe 129
  Niger 55
  Rwanda 620
  Senegal 76
  Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 467
  Morocco 267
  Gabon 226
  Central African Republic 52
  Guinea (Republic of) 38
  Chad 56
  Somalia (Federal Republic of) 16
  Benin 144
  Zambia 137
  Mozambique 63
  Cote d'Ivoire 94
  Cameroon 118
  Sierra Leone 52
  Madagascar 101
  Kenya 103
  Libya 269
  Comoros 46
  Mali 48
  Democratic Republic of Congo 46
  South Sudan 58
  Tanzania 41
  Burkina Faso 38
  Egypt 113
  Mauritania 57
  Botswana 161
  Gambia 22
  Equatorial Guinea 63
  Togo 59
  Algeria 217
  Malawi 78
  Namibia 318
  Guinea Bissau 31
  Djibouti 74
  Congo (Republic of) 27
  Sudan 52
  Ethiopia 99
  Eritrea