This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each. The home page has an interactive map for finding individual country pages. Zoom in and click a region link. Zoom in on region page for country and subnational area links. Or scroll down below map to a link list of them. See the Data Analysis Tool. Use its sidebar to pick prison population total, prison population rate, pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners, female prisoners, foreign prisoners, occupancy level, and region. Pick country and subnational area pages from the lists. Or use the sidebar search to look for those pages. The search form at the top of the page will not pull up individual country and subnational area pages.

Incarceration rates table See the individual World Prison Brief (WPB) country and subnational area pages for more info on data, dates, and much more. WPB notes this: "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."

Note: Table data fully updated from Our World in Data dataset. It says it was fully updated Jan 21, 2026 from World Prison Brief. Some individual countries updated directly from WPB since then. OWID says its next expected dataset update is in January 2027. Click on the map tab. Hover over any country to see latest rate, year, and rate-by-year timeline. Then scroll down and click on "Download displayed data". Open the CSV file in any spreadsheet to see countries, latest rates, and years. Page says it was fully updated Jan 21, 2026 from World Prison Brief. It says its next expected dataset update is in January 2027. Go to WPB directly for their latest vetted data. See OWID archive of map and dataset. Note: Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in LOCATION" or "Crime in LOCATION" links.

+ Incarceration rates per 100,000 residents Location Rate Year 54 2024 196 2025 217 2021 71 2024 65 2024 400 2023 284 2024 83 2024 170 2025 104 2026 264 2024 336 2023 46 2025 240 2023 345 2018 113 2025 302 2025 144 2024 252 2024 161 2022 416 2024 143 2022 99 2024 37 2024 90 2025 320 2025 118 2024 90 2023 467 2024 52 2023 56 2022 329 2025 119 2018 199 2025 46 2023 27 2019 345 2023 115 2023 794 2020 114 2025 179 2025 46 2022 69 2024 74 2022 356 2024 219 2025 55 2021 196 2025 113 2022 1659 2024 118 2025 369 2025 99 2020 248 2024 54 2024 126 2025 321 2025 226 2024 22 2021 285 2025 71 2024 41 2025 98 2024 294 2024 324 2024 123 2023 38 2024 288 2024 59 2025 188 2023 196 2024 35 2024 37 2023 96 2025 228 2020 179 2021 101 2025 217 2023 108 2025 94 2024 124 2023 33 2024 194 2022 163 2024 100 2024 99 2023 101 2023 112 2023 166 2018 175 2024 141 2023 117 2025 60 2025 269 2023 20 2024 156 2024 91 2024 95 2024 78 2024 244 2025 225 2024 48 2023 119 2024 57 2022 215 2025 188 2025 255 2025 81 2024 166 2023 168 2024 267 2023 63 2024 183 2020 318 2021 345 2023 93 2025 64 2023 186 2025 199 2025 332 2018 55 2024 33 2025 142 2024 54 2025 45 2024 367 2023 533 2025 57 2023 259 2025 299 2025 151 2021 191 2025 121 2025 177 2022 69 2022 129 2025 300 2023 620 2024 296 2022 310 2024 361 2024 179 2019 44 2024 129 2023 140 2019 76 2024 177 2024 392 2025 52 2024 178 2024 149 2025 69 2026 74 2024 16 2023 260 2025 115 2023 58 2021 121 2024 180 2026 134 2023 92 2024 77 2025 270 2025 145 2024 41 2023 395 2024 59 2021 516 2022 276 2021 267 2025 468 2026 576 2021 150 2025 116 2023 139 2025 542 2023 449 2024 85 2022 68 2024 199 2022 135 2022 14 2022 137 2024 150 2025

See also Capital punishment by country Crime statistics List of prisons List of countries by intentional homicide rate List of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate United States incarceration rate :Category:Penal systems by country

Notes

United Kingdom: The OWID dataset provides a rate for the UK as a whole, but not for its parts. UK is in the above table. The World Prison Brief (WPB) site does not provide a rate for the UK as a whole. WPB provides rates for subnational areas of the UK. Such as: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands. Their numbers are listed separately in the WPB highest-to-lowest lists and charts. The World Prison Brief site also has individual pages for each of them. To find those pages go to the main reference. Then go to the Data Analysis Tool. Use your browser "find" to search for any of the UK parts on the page. You should be able to find them all. The Europe region page also has links to most of them. The rate for the United Kingdom as a whole can be calculated by adding up their prison populations, and then dividing by their combined population. That must be what OWID is doing.

References

External links

Core Publications of the World Prison Brief. Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List. Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Data Analysis Tools – Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Prisoners. United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.