Hospitals & Asylums

World Prison Population HA-7-12-05

World Prison Population as Reported by the International Centre for Prison Statistics

Most Penal	Country	Prison Population	Ratio of prisoners per 100,000	Abolition of the Death Penalty
1	United States of America	2,135,901	724	State by State
2	Russian Federation	808,500	566	1999 de
3	St. Kitts and Nevis	218	559
4	Bermuda (UK)	343	532	1999
5	Belarus	52,500	532
6	Virgin Islands (USA)	576	521
7	Turkmenistan	22,000	489	1999
8	Cuba	55,000	487
9	Palau	97	478
10	American Samoa (USA)	258	446
11	Belize	1,160	444
12	Suriname	1,933	437	1982 de
13	Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)	187	429
14	Bahamas	1,335	425
15	Dominica	290	418
16	Maldive Islands	1,098	414	1952 de
17	Ukraine	187,075	398	1999
18	Singapore	16,835	392
19	Puerto Rico (USA)	14,380	369
20	Barbados	997	367
21	Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)	780	364
22	Panama	11,584	351	1903
23	South Africa	156,175	344	1995
24	Kazakhstan	52,608	342
25	St Vincent and the Grenadines	397	339
26	Botswana	6,105	339
27	Latvia	7,796	337	1999 ord.
28	Estonia	4,442	331	1998
29	Aruba (Netherlands)	231	324
30	Swaziland	3,245	324
31	Kyrgyzstan	16,734	316
32	Trinidad and Tobago	3,991	307
33	French Guiana/Guyane (France)	600	306
34	Moldova (Republic of)	10,729	297	1995
35	St Lucia	485	293
36	Antigua and Barbuda	184	269
37	Namibia	4,814	267	1990
38	Grenada	237	265	1978 de
39	Thailand	168,264	264
40	Taiwan	59,342	259
41	Tunisia	23,165	253	1990 de
42	United Arab Emirates	6,000	250
43	Mongolia	6,400	246
44	Chile	38,135	241	2001 ord.
45	Guam (USA)	393	237
46	Lithuania	8,063	234	1998
47	Poland	82,733	217	1997
48	Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)	43	215
49	Uruguay	7,100	209	1907
50	Israel	13,603	209	1954 ord.
51	Libya	11,790	207
52	Mauritius	2,464	205	1995
53	Jersey (United Kingdom)	183	202
54	Georgia	8,644	202	1997
55	Azerbaijan	16,345	198	1998
56	Macau (China)	875	197
57	Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	150	191
58	Iran	135,132	191
59	Mexico	201,931	191	2005
60	Greenland (Denmark)	107	190
61	Czech Republic	19,089	187	1990
62	Seychelles	149	186	1993
63	El Salvador	12,117	184	1983 ord.
64	Uzbekistan	48,000	184
65	Brazil	330,642	183	1979 ord.
66	New Zealand	7,444	181	1961
67	Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)	755	178	1981
68	Romania	38,416	178	1989
69	Costa Rica	7,619	177	1877
70	Jamaica	4,744	176
71	Morocco	54,200	174	1993 de
72	Hong Kong (China)	12,266	170
73	Malaysia	42,282	170
74	Guyana	1,295	169
75	Kenya	55,000	169	de
76	Guadeloupe (France)	743	167
77	Slovakia	8,891	165	1990
78	Guernsey (United Kingdom)	107	164
79	Hungary	16,419	163	1990
80	Tajikistan	10,000	161
81	Martinique (France)	631	159
82	Honduras	11,236	158	1956
83	Dominican Republic	13,836	157	1966
84	Lesotho	2,924	156
85	Bahrain	911	155
86	Zimbabwe	20,000	155
87	Algeria	50,000	152	1993 de
88	Colombia	68,545	152	1910
89	Kuwait	3,700	148
90	Argentina	56,313	148	1984 ord.
91	United Kingdom: England & Wales	77,749	146	1973
92	Lebanon	5,375	145
93	Luxembourg	653	143	1979
94	Bulgaria	11,060	143	1998
95	Spain	61,220	141	1978
96	Fiji	1,186	139	1979 ord.
97	United Kingdom: Scotland	6,883	135	1973
98	Reunion (France)	1,040	133
99	Saudi Arabia	28,612	132
100	Zambia	14,207	129
101	Rwanda	87,000	129
102	Brunei Darussalam	463	127	1957 de
103	Netherlands	20,747	127	1870
104	Cook Islands (New Zealand)	27	126	Ord.
105	Cameroon	20,000	125
106	French Polynesia (France)	314	124
107	Portugal	13,147	124	1867
108	Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)	223	123	2004
109	Republic of (South) Korea	57,902	121
110	Australia	24,171	120	1984
111	Myanmar (formerly Burma)	60,000	120	1993 de
112	China	1,548,498	118
113	Canada	36,389	116	1976
114	Tanzania	43,244	116
115	Tonga	128	114	1982 de
116	Peru	32,129	114	1979 ord.
117	Central African Republic	4,168	110	1981 de
118	Sri Lanka	20,975	110	1976 de
119	Madagascar	19,000	109	1958 de
120	Serbia and Montenegro: Montenegro	734	108	2002
121	Burundi	7,568	107
122	Austria	8,767	107	1950
123	New Caledonia (France)	251	105
124	Albania	3,778	105	2000 ord.
125	Jordan	5,589	104
126	Ecuador	13,045	100	1906
127	Nicaragua	5,610	98	1979
128	Italy	56,530	97	1947
129	Germany	80,413	97	1987
130	Qatar	570	95
131	Uganda	26,126	95
132	Turkey	67,772	95	2002
133	Serbia and Montenegro: Serbia	7,724	93
134	Syria	14,000	93
135	Armenia	2,866	92	2003
136	Ethiopia	65,000	92
137	Andorra	61	90	1990
138	Belgium	9,245	88	1996
139	France	52,908	88	1981
140	Egypt	61,845	87
141	Philippines	67,968	86
142	Ireland, Republic of	3,417	85	1990
143	Isle of Man (United Kingdom)	62	83
144	Yemen	14,000	83
145	Greece	8,760	82	1993
146	Oman	2,020	81
147	Benin	4,961	81	1987 de
148	Switzerland	6,021	81	1942
149	Sweden	7,332	81	1921
150	United Kingdom: Northern Ireland	1,371	80	1973
151	Sao Tome e Principe	130	79	1990
152	Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic of)	1,598	78	1991
153	Denmark	4,198	77	1933
154	Bolivia	6,768	76	1997 ord.
155	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska	1,052	75
156	Paraguay	4,088	75	1992
157	Venezuela	19,850	74	1863
158	Marshall Islands	43	73	1986
159	Malta	278	72	1971
160	Vietnam	55,000	71
161	Malawi	8,566	70
162	Laos	4,020	69
163	Papua New Guinea	4,056	69	1950 de
164	Gibraltar (United Kingdom)	19	68
165	Croatia	3,010	68	1990
166	Kiribati	69	67	1979
167	Finland	3,446	66	1949
168	Norway	2,975	65	1905
169	Togo	3,200	65	de
170	Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo/Kosova	1,199	63
171	Cote D'Ivoire	10,355	62	2000
172	Djibouti	384	61	1995
173	Guatemala	7,800	61
174	Tuvalu	7	60	1978
175	Iraq	15,000	60
176	Japan	76,413	60
177	Solomon Islands	295	59	1966
178	Slovenia	1,171	59	1989
179	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation	1,509	58	1997
180	Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)	30,000	57
181	Ghana	12,400	56
182	Mayotte (France)	107	55
183	Pakistan	86,000	55
184	Senegal	5,360	54	2004
185	Liechtenstein	18	53	1987
186	Niger	6,000	52	1976 de
187	Vanuatu	112	51	1980
188	Cyprus	355	50	1983
189	Mozambique	8,812	50	1990
190	Bangladesh	74,170	50
191	Cambodia	6,778	47	1989
192	Chad	3,883	46
193	Angola	6,008	44	1992
194	Haiti	3,519	42	1987
195	Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)	320	41	1999
196	Mauritania	1,185	41	1987 de
197	Monaco	13	39	1962
198	Iceland	115	39	1928
199	Congo (Brazzaville)	918	38	1982 de
200	Indonesia	84,357	38
201	Republic of Guinea	3,070	37
202	Sudan	12,000	36
203	Micronesia, Federated States of	39	34	1986
204	Mali	4,040	34	1980 de
205	Gambia	450	32	1981 de
206	Nigeria	39,153	31
207	India	322,357	31
208	Comoros	200	30
209	Faeroe Islands (Denmark)	14	30
210	Nepal	7,132	29	1990
211	Sierra Leone	1,400	27
212	Nauru	3	23	1968 de
213	Burkina Faso	2,800	23	1988 de
214	San Marino	0		1848
215	Afghanistan
	Total	9,033,367

Death Penalty notation de = de facto ban; ord = outlawed for ordinary crimes

2004 Estimated Prison Population HA-16-12-04