List of countries by incarceration rate - Wikipedia List of countries by incarceration rate A map of incarceration rates by country, not showing several island countries. This is a list of countries by incarceration rate. Contents 1 Incarceration rates 2 Notes 2.1 China 2.2 North Korea 2.3 Seychelles 2.4 United Kingdom 2.5 United States 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Incarceration rates This list is initially sorted alphabetically. Click the sorting cell below the incarceration rate header to sort by rate. ( Requires JavaScript. ) The table can be sorted in ascending or descending order. The row number column stays static, and does not sort. In the table below see `` United Kingdom '' to find the rates for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. There is no rate listed for the UK as a whole. South Korea is listed as Republic of ( South ) Korea. For info on North Korea, see notes below. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 Country ( or dependent territory, subnational area, etc. ) Incarceration rate ( Prisoners per 100,000 population ) Afghanistan 74 Albania 192 Algeria 156 American Samoa ( U.S. ) 382 Andorra 53 Angola 96 Anguilla ( United Kingdom ) 307 Antigua and Barbuda 403 Argentina 160 Armenia 130 Aruba ( Netherlands ) 165 Australia 152 Austria 97 Azerbaijan 236 Bahamas 363 Bahrain 301 Bangladesh 43 Barbados 322 Belarus 306 Belgium 98 Belize 410 Benin 77 Bermuda ( United Kingdom ) 354 Bhutan 145 Bolivia 122 Bosnia and Herzegovina : Federation 73 Bosnia and Herzegovina : Republika Srpska 67 Botswana 193 Brazil 307 Brunei Darussalam 134 Bulgaria 125 Burkina Faso 41 Burundi 77 Cambodia 116 Cameroon 114 Canada 114 Cape Verde ( Cabo Verde ) 286 Cayman Islands ( United Kingdom ) 369 Central African Republic 16 Chad 39 Chile 242 China 118 or unknown. See notes below. Colombia 240 Comoros 19 Congo ( Brazzaville ) 27 Cook Islands ( New Zealand ) 109 Costa Rica 352 Cote d'Ivoire 56 Croatia 81 Cuba 510 Curaçao ( Netherlands ) 225 Cyprus ( Republic of ) 80 Czech Republic 211 Democratic Republic of Congo ( formerly Zaire ) 29 Denmark 61 Djibouti 67 Dominica 300 Dominican Republic 232 Ecuador 162 Egypt 116 El Salvador 541 Equatorial Guinea 63 Estonia 221 Ethiopia 128 Faroe Islands ( Denmark ) 23 Fiji 174 Finland 55 France 103 French Guiana / Guyane ( France ) 326 French Polynesia ( France ) 144 Gabon 193 Gambia 58 Georgia 262 Germany 78 Ghana 49 Gibraltar ( United Kingdom ) 158 Greece 91 Greenland ( Denmark ) 208 Grenada 421 Guadeloupe ( France ) 203 Guam ( U.S. ) 469 Guatemala 122 Guernsey ( United Kingdom ) 127 Guyana 256 Haiti 102 Honduras 198 Hong Kong ( China ) 115 Hungary 183 Iceland 45 India 33 Indonesia 69 Iran 287 Iraq 123 Ireland, Republic of 79 Isle of Man ( United Kingdom ) 92 Israel 265 Italy 89 Jamaica 145 Japan 47 Jersey ( United Kingdom ) 152 Jordan 150 Kazakhstan 221 Kenya 121 Kiribati 130 Kosovo / Kosova 100 Kuwait 112 Kyrgyzstan 167 Laos 119 Latvia 224 Lebanon 128 Lesotho 92 Liberia 49 Libya 99 Liechtenstein 27 Lithuania 254 Luxembourg 120 Macau ( China ) 200 Macedonia 166 Madagascar 84 Malawi 70 Malaysia 172 Maldives 421 Mali 33 Malta 131 Marshall Islands 66 Martinique ( France ) 256 Mauritania 44 Mauritius 174 Mayotte ( France ) 100 Mexico 204 Micronesia, Federated States of 127 Moldova ( Republic of ) 222 Monaco 74 Mongolia 266 Montenegro 182 Morocco 222 Mozambique 57 Myanmar ( formerly Burma ) 113 Namibia 144 Nauru 140 Nepal 62 Netherlands 69 New Caledonia ( France ) 181 New Zealand 202 Nicaragua 171 Niger 44 Nigeria 35 Northern Mariana Islands ( U.S. ) 267 Norway 70 Oman 36 Pakistan 43 Palau 343 Panama 426 Papua New Guinea 63 Paraguay 180 Peru 251 Philippines 140 Poland 187 Portugal 137 Puerto Rico ( U.S. ) 349 Qatar 53 Republic of ( South ) Korea 107 Republic of Guinea 26 Reunion ( France ) 120 Romania 142 Russian Federation 450 Rwanda 434 Samoa ( formerly Western Samoa ) 258 Sao Tome e Principe 87 Saudi Arabia 161 Senegal 62 Serbia 142 Seychelles 799. See notes below. Sierra Leone 55 Singapore 219 Sint Maarten ( Netherlands ) 347 Slovakia 184 Slovenia 73 Solomon Islands 46 South Africa 292 South Sudan 52 Spain 131 Sri Lanka 88 St. Kitts and Nevis 607 St. Lucia 327 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 378 Sudan 50 Suriname 183 Swaziland 282 Sweden 53 Switzerland 84 Syria 60 Taiwan 267 Tajikistan 121 Tanzania 64 Thailand 445 Timor - Leste ( formerly East Timor ) 50 Togo 62 Tonga 166 Trinidad and Tobago 272 Tunisia 204 Turkey 238 Turkmenistan 583 Tuvalu 110 Uganda 120 Ukraine 168 United Arab Emirates 229 United Kingdom : England & Wales 146. See notes below United Kingdom : Northern Ireland 78. See notes below United Kingdom : Scotland 141. See notes below United States of America 693. See notes below. Uruguay 291 Uzbekistan 150 Vanuatu 87 Venezuela 159 Vietnam 146 Virgin Islands ( United Kingdom ) 425 Virgin Islands ( U.S. ) 542 Yemen 53 Zambia 125 Zimbabwe 145 Notes China China. The rate of 118 is for sentenced prisoners in 2015 in Ministry of Justice prisons only. International Centre for Prison Studies : `` 1 649 804 ( prisoners ) at mid-2015 ( via Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators - sentenced prisoners in Ministry of Justice prisons only, excluding pre-trial detainees and those held in administrative detention ). The Deputy Procurator - General of the Supreme People 's Procuratorate reported in 2009 that, in addition to the sentenced prisoners, more than 650,000 were held in detention centres In China. If this was still correct in mid-2015 the total prison population in China was at least 2,300,000... 118 ( rate ) based on an estimated national population of 1.4 billion at mid-2015 ( from United Nations figures ) -- sentenced prisoners in Ministry of Justice prisons only. ( A total prison population of 2,300,000 would raise the prison population rate to 164 per 100,000. ) '' See also : Re-education through labor and Laogai. North Korea North Korea. Little information exists regarding North Korea 's incarceration rate. The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates 150,000 to 200,000 incarcerated based on testimony of defectors from the state police bureau, which roughly equals 600 - 800 people incarcerated per 100,000. For more info see Prisons in North Korea. Seychelles Seychelles also incarcerates some Somali pirates. Subtracting the Somali pirate inmates still leaves the Seychelles with the highest incarceration rate in the world. The incarceration rate was 799 per 100,000 population in 2014. The population of the Seychelles in 2014 was around 92,000. From a May 2013 BBC article : `` Here, 66 Somalis are awaiting trial for piracy or, if already convicted, await deportation to serve their sentences back home... Here in Seychelles, another 17 were recently flown home to a UN-funded jail in the relatively secure region of Puntland in Somalia, to serve sentences that mostly range between 10 and 20 years -- 59 have already been tried and sent back. '' From a March 2016 article : `` There are currently 22 Somalis incarcerated at the Seychelles main detention facility, the Montagne Posée prison. This includes the last group of five that are being prosecuted. Seventeen convicts are awaiting transfer to continue serving their sentences in their homeland. '' Juvenile detention totals from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. United Kingdom United Kingdom. Main chart source only provides rates for the constituent parts of the UK. In the above chart see Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. They are all listed separately under `` United Kingdom '' in the table. United States Further information : United States incarceration rate, Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries, and List of U.S. states by incarceration rate United States. Incarceration rate ( per 100,000 population of all ages ) is for inmates held in adult facilities. In addition, there were 54,148 juveniles in juvenile detention in 2013. For more juvenile detention info and numbers see youth incarceration in the United States. See notes at the bottom of a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics ( BJS ) source table : `` Total includes all inmates held in local jails, state or federal prisons, or privately operated facilities. It does not include inmates held in U.S. territories ( appendix table 3 ) or military facilities ( appendix table 3 ), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) detention centers, in jails in Indian country ( appendix table 3 ), or in juvenile facilities. '' BJS has numbers for U.S. territories, military facilities, ICE, and for jails in Indian country. See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to Incarceration rates and Criminal justice statistics. List of prisons List of countries by execution rate List of countries by intentional homicide rate List of U.S. states by homicide rate United States incarceration rate Category : Penal systems by country References ^ Jump up to : Highest to Lowest. World Prison Brief ( WPF ). International Centre for Prison Studies. Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by region, or the whole world. Use menu to select highest - to - lowest lists of prison population totals, prison population rates, percentage of pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners, percentage of female prisoners, percentage of foreign prisoners, and occupancy rate. Column headings in WPF tables can be clicked to reorder columns lowest to highest, or alphabetically. For detailed information for each country see the WPF main page and click on the map links and / or the sidebar links to get to the region and country desired. Data for the whole Wikipedia list was last retrieved on 1 Oct 2016. Some numbers may be adjusted here later according to later info, or other references. Please update the table here. For a quick method to fully update the table see the relevant section ( `` conversion examples '' ) of Commons : Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files. Jump up ^ China. By International Centre for Prison Studies. Jump up ^ The Hidden Gulag : The Lives and Voices of `` Those Who are Sent to the Mountains '', 2nd ed. By David Hawk. Published April 10, 2012 by Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. ISBN 0615623670. ^ Jump up to : Seychelles. World Prison Brief. International Centre for Prison Studies. Jump up ^ Seychelles population. Countrymeters. Jump up ^ Seychelles cells : The Somali pirates ' jailed in paradise '. By Anthony Denselow. 19 May 2013. BBC. Jump up ^ Last Somali pirates held in Seychelles to face charges, judge rules. By Sharon Uranie. Seychelles News Agency. March 4, 2016. ^ Jump up to : Sickmund, M., Sladky, T.J., Kang, W., & Puzzanchera, C... `` Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement ''. Click `` National Crosstabs '' at the top, and then choose the census years. Click `` Show table '' to get the total number of juvenile inmates for those years. Or go here for all the years. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Jump up ^ United States of America. By International Centre for Prison Studies. Jump up ^ Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 ( NCJ 248479 ). Published December 2014 by U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics ( BJS ). By Lauren E. Glaze and Danielle Kaeble, BJS statisticians. See PDF. See page 1 `` highlights '' section for the `` 1 in... '' numbers. See table 1 on page 2 for adult numbers. See table 5 on page 6 for male and female numbers. See appendix table 5 on page 13, for `` Estimated number of persons supervised by adult correctional systems, by correctional status, 2000 -- 2013. '' See appendix table 2 : `` Inmates held in custody in state or federal prisons or in local jails, 2000 and 2012 -- 2013 ''. For state numbers see appendix table 1 and its CSV file ( cpus13at01. csv ). It is part of this zip file. Jump up ^ U.S. Territories. By U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Jump up ^ U.S. Military. By U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Jump up ^ Immigration and Customs Enforcement. By U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Jump up ^ Jails in Indian Country. By U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. External links Research & Publications International Centre for Prison Studies. The latest `` World Prison Population List '' in PDF form can be found here. Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ( `` detained '' ) from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Prison population per capita. Edutube. World map. Move cursor over countries to see incarceration rates. Click the full - screen icon in the bottom - left of the map to launch it in a full - screen window. Then click anywhere on the map and use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in or out. Drag the map to move it in any direction. Data Analysis Tools -- Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool ( CSAT ) -- Prisoners. United States Bureau of Justice Statistics. Number of inmates in Ukraine rises for first time in 7 years. 26 March 2009. Kyiv Post. 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Question: who has the largest prison system in the world
Answer: Seychelles