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Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population (%) - Both sexes

% · higher is better · 182 countries

Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0); underlying sources incl. V-DemCC BY 4.0updated 2024
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  1. 1Haiti84%
  2. 2Gabon70%
  3. 3Nigeria66.8%
  4. 4Sri Lanka66.2%
  5. 5Bolivia60.7%
  6. 6Dominican Republic56.3%
  7. 7Guinea55.5%
  8. 8Cameroon55.5%
  9. 9Burundi53.1%
  10. 10Sierra Leone51.1%
  11. 11Angola48.5%
  12. 12Montenegro48.3%
  13. 13Uganda46.8%
  14. 14Mauritius46.2%
  15. 15Switzerland46.1%
  16. 16Malta45.2%
  17. 17New Zealand42.3%
  18. 18Australia39.9%
  19. 19Madagascar39.6%
  20. 20Peru38.1%
  21. 21South Africa38%
  22. 22Ecuador36.9%
  23. 23Mexico36.9%
  24. 24Chile36.6%
  25. 25Panama35.2%
  26. 26Belize34.7%
  27. 27Cote d'Ivoire33.7%
  28. 28Seychelles31.7%
  29. 29Cyprus31.4%
  30. 30Latvia28.6%
  31. 31Germany27%
  32. 32Cambodia26.6%
  33. 33France25.8%
  34. 34Brazil24.2%
  35. 35Zimbabwe23.5%
  36. 36Portugal22.3%
  37. 37Puerto Rico (US)22%
  38. 38Colombia21.7%
  39. 39Indonesia21.3%
  40. 40Azerbaijan20.7%
  41. 41Ireland19.7%
  42. 42Austria19.5%
  43. 43Georgia19.3%
  44. 44Mongolia19%
  45. 45Estonia18.1%
  46. 46Zambia18.1%
  47. 47Moldova17%
  48. 48Russian Federation15.5%
  49. 49Turkiye14.9%
  50. 50Slovak Republic13.1%
  51. 51Romania12.7%
  52. 52Lithuania11.8%
  53. 53Poland11.5%
  54. 54Ghana10.5%
  55. 55Morocco10.5%
  56. 56Czechia8.1%
  57. 57Gibraltar3.9%

Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population (%) - Both sexes