Governance

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

Name: Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population (%) by country, 2024
Creator: United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database
License: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/

· higher is better · 185 countries

Year

United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global DatabaseUN Terms of Use — non-commercial (SDG Global Database); redistribution deferred pending clearanceupdated 2024

JSON CSV

106 countries · 2024

106 of 106

Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population (%) league table
#	Country		Region	Income
1	Haiti	83.6	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
2	Gabon	70	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
3	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	69.9	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
4	Pakistan	69	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
5	Nigeria	66.8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
6	Sri Lanka	66.2	South Asia	Upper middle income
7	Paraguay	63.9	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
8	St. Lucia	62.1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
9	Albania	62	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
10	Dominican Republic	62	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
11	Niger	62	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
12	Grenada	61	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
13	Bolivia	58.7	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
14	Barbados	57.9	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
15	Guinea	55.5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
16	Cameroon	55.5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
17	Montenegro	54.3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
18	Burundi	53.1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
19	Armenia	52.2	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
20	Switzerland	51.9	Europe & Central Asia	High income
21	Sierra Leone	51.1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
22	Angola	48.5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
23	Luxembourg	48.3	Europe & Central Asia	High income
24	Senegal	48	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
25	West Bank and Gaza	47.7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
26	Uganda	47.2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
27	Mauritius	46.2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
28	Iceland	42.7	Europe & Central Asia	High income
29	Croatia	42.4	Europe & Central Asia	High income
30	New Zealand	42.3	East Asia & Pacific	High income
31	Monaco	41.9	Europe & Central Asia	High income
32	Australia	39.9	East Asia & Pacific	High income
33	Slovenia	39.8	Europe & Central Asia	High income
34	Madagascar	39.3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
35	Argentina	38.8	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
36	Guyana	38.7	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
37	Malta	38.2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
38	Peru	38.1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
39	South Africa	38	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
40	Andorra	37.3	Europe & Central Asia	High income
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.6	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
42	Chile	36.6	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
43	Mexico	36.3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
44	Panama	35.2	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
45	Korea, Rep.	35	East Asia & Pacific	High income
46	Ukraine	34.9	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
47	Belize	34.7	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
48	Ecuador	34.7	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
49	Cote d'Ivoire	33.7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
50	Solomon Islands	32.7	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
51	Malaysia	32.6	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
52	Seychelles	31.7	Sub-Saharan Africa	High income
53	Burkina Faso	29	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
54	Latvia	28.6	Europe & Central Asia	High income
55	Guatemala	28.3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
56	Mozambique	27.9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
57	Finland	27.4	Europe & Central Asia	High income
58	Brazil	27.3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
59	Netherlands	27.2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
60	Germany	27	Europe & Central Asia	High income
61	Sweden	27	Europe & Central Asia	High income
62	Cambodia	26.6	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
63	France	25.8	Europe & Central Asia	High income
64	Greece	25.5	Europe & Central Asia	High income
65	Cyprus	24.4	Europe & Central Asia	High income
66	Denmark	23.9	Europe & Central Asia	High income
67	Costa Rica	23.7	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
68	Belgium	23.6	Europe & Central Asia	High income
69	Zimbabwe	23.5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
70	Norway	22.4	Europe & Central Asia	High income
71	Portugal	21.7	Europe & Central Asia	High income
72	Colombia	21.7	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
73	Serbia	21.5	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
74	Indonesia	21.3	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
75	Azerbaijan	20.7	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
76	Hungary	20.7	Europe & Central Asia	High income
77	Estonia	20.2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
78	Austria	19.6	Europe & Central Asia	High income
79	Suriname	19.4	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
80	Ireland	19.3	Europe & Central Asia	High income
81	Georgia	19.3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
82	Mongolia	19	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
83	Puerto Rico (US)	18.8	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
84	Zambia	18.1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
85	Spain	17.7	Europe & Central Asia	High income
86	Macao SAR, China	17.6	East Asia & Pacific	High income
87	Moldova	17	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
88	Italy	17	Europe & Central Asia	High income
89	Japan	15.5	East Asia & Pacific	High income
90	Russian Federation	15.5	Europe & Central Asia	High income
91	Turkiye	14.4	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
92	Liechtenstein	14.3	Europe & Central Asia	High income
93	North Macedonia	14	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
94	Singapore	13.1	East Asia & Pacific	High income
95	Lithuania	13	Europe & Central Asia	High income
96	Slovak Republic	13	Europe & Central Asia	High income
97	Poland	10.9	Europe & Central Asia	High income
98	Ghana	10.5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
99	Morocco	10.5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
100	Romania	9.2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
101	Thailand	8.9	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
102	Bulgaria	8.8	Europe & Central Asia	High income
103	Czechia	8.2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
104	Taiwan	6.8	East Asia & Pacific	High income
105	Gibraltar	3.9	Europe & Central Asia	High income
106	Algeria	0.3	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income

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