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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   United States: 2,019,234 prisoners 
#2   China: 1,549,000 prisoners 
#3   Russia: 846,967 prisoners 
#4   India: 313,635 prisoners 
#5   Brazil: 308,304 prisoners 
#6   Thailand: 213,815 prisoners 
#7   Ukraine: 198,386 prisoners 
#8   South Africa: 181,944 prisoners 
#9   Mexico: 172,888 prisoners 
#10   Iran: 163,526 prisoners 
#11   Rwanda: 112,000 prisoners 
#12   Pakistan: 87,000 prisoners 
#13   Indonesia: 84,357 prisoners 
#14   Poland: 80,467 prisoners 
#15   United Kingdom: 78,753 prisoners 
#16   Germany: 74,904 prisoners 
#17   Bangladesh: 74,170 prisoners 
#18   Philippines: 70,383 prisoners 
#19   Japan: 69,502 prisoners 
#20   Turkey: 64,051 prisoners 
#21   Egypt: 61,845 prisoners 
#22   Spain: 59,251 prisoners 
#23   Korea, South: 58,564 prisoners 
#24   Kazakhstan: 58,300 prisoners 
#25   France: 56,957 prisoners 
#26   Taiwan: 56,225 prisoners 
#27   Italy: 55,670 prisoners 
#28   Vietnam: 55,000 prisoners 
#29   Morocco: 54,351 prisoners 
#30   Colombia: 54,034 prisoners 
#31   Belarus: 51,238 prisoners 
#32   Romania: 48,075 prisoners 
#33   Uzbekistan: 48,000 prisoners 
#34   Argentina: 44,969 prisoners 
#35   Tanzania: 43,244 prisoners 
#36   Nigeria: 40,447 prisoners 
#37   Malaysia: 39,258 prisoners 
#38   Chile: 36,636 prisoners 
#39   Canada: 35,519 prisoners 
#40   Kenya: 35,278 prisoners 
#41   Algeria: 34,243 prisoners 
#42   Burma: 32,797 prisoners 
#43   Saudi Arabia: 28,612 prisoners 
#44   Peru: 27,417 prisoners 
#45   Tunisia: 23,165 prisoners 
#46   Australia: 22,492 prisoners 
#47   Madagascar: 20,109 prisoners 
#48   Cameroon: 20,000 prisoners 
#49   Sri Lanka: 19,974 prisoners 
#50   Kyrgyzstan: 19,500 prisoners 
#51   Venezuela: 19,255 prisoners 
#52   Azerbaijan: 19,136 prisoners 
#53   Czech Republic: 18,669 prisoners 
#54   Hungary: 17,862 prisoners 
#55   Netherlands: 16,930 prisoners 
#56   Singapore: 16,310 prisoners 
#57   Yemen: 14,000 prisoners 
#58   Syria: 14,000 prisoners 
#59   Portugal: 13,918 prisoners 
#60   Dominican Republic: 13,836 prisoners 
#61   Zambia: 13,173 prisoners 
#62   Honduras: 11,502 prisoners 
#63   Lithuania: 11,070 prisoners 
#64   El Salvador: 11,055 prisoners 
#65   Israel: 11,027 prisoners 
#66   Ghana: 10,992 prisoners 
#67   Moldova: 10,903 prisoners 
#68   Panama: 10,350 prisoners 
#69   Bulgaria: 9,918 prisoners 
#70   Libya: 9,763 prisoners 
#71   Greece: 8,841 prisoners 
#72   Mozambique: 8,812 prisoners 
#73   Burundi: 8,647 prisoners 
#74   Belgium: 8,605 prisoners 
#75   Malawi: 8,566 prisoners 
#76   Costa Rica: 8,526 prisoners 
#77   Latvia: 8,483 prisoners 
#78   Bolivia: 8,315 prisoners 
#79   Guatemala: 8,307 prisoners 
#80   Ecuador: 8,274 prisoners 
#81   Austria: 8,114 prisoners 
#82   Mongolia: 7,871 prisoners 
#83   Slovakia: 7,758 prisoners 
#84   Nicaragua: 7,198 prisoners 
#85   Nepal: 7,132 prisoners 
#86   Uruguay: 7,100 prisoners 
#87   Georgia: 6,406 prisoners 
#88   Cambodia: 6,346 prisoners 
#89   Angola: 6,008 prisoners 
#90   New Zealand: 5,968 prisoners 
#91   Sweden: 5,920 prisoners 
#92   Botswana: 5,890 prisoners 
#93   Jordan: 5,589 prisoners 
#94   Lebanon: 5,535 prisoners 
#95   Senegal: 5,360 prisoners 
#96   Switzerland: 4,982 prisoners 
#97   Benin: 4,961 prisoners 
#98   Namibia: 4,814 prisoners 
#99   Trinidad and Tobago: 4,794 prisoners 
#100   Jamaica: 4,744 prisoners 
#101   Estonia: 4,571 prisoners 
#102   Central African Republic: 4,168 prisoners 
#103   Haiti: 4,152 prisoners 
#104   Paraguay: 4,088 prisoners 
#105   Mali: 4,040 prisoners 
#106   Chad: 3,883 prisoners 
#107   Denmark: 3,435 prisoners 
#108   Finland: 3,433 prisoners 
#109   Papua New Guinea: 3,302 prisoners 
#110   Swaziland: 3,245 prisoners 
#111   Guinea: 3,070 prisoners 
#112   Lesotho: 3,000 prisoners 
#113   Kuwait: 2,946 prisoners 
#114   Norway: 2,914 prisoners 
#115   Armenia: 2,866 prisoners 
#116   Burkina Faso: 2,800 prisoners 
#117   Croatia: 2,611 prisoners 
#118   Mauritius: 2,565 prisoners 
#119   Togo: 2,043 prisoners 
#120   Suriname: 1,933 prisoners 
#121   Albania: 1,532 prisoners 
#122   Guyana: 1,507 prisoners 
#123   Oman: 1,403 prisoners 
#124   Mauritania: 1,354 prisoners 
#125   Bahamas, The: 1,280 prisoners 
#126   Cyprus: 1,254 prisoners 
#127   Slovenia: 1,099 prisoners 
#128   Belize: 1,097 prisoners 
#129   Barbados: 992 prisoners 
#130   Fiji: 982 prisoners 
#131   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 918 prisoners 
#132   Bahrain: 911 prisoners 
#133   Qatar: 570 prisoners 
#134   Gambia, The: 450 prisoners 
#135   Djibouti: 384 prisoners 
#136   Saint Lucia: 365 prisoners 
#137   Luxembourg: 341 prisoners 
#138   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 302 prisoners 
#139   Dominica: 298 prisoners 
#140   Grenada: 297 prisoners 
#141   Malta: 283 prisoners 
#142   Antigua and Barbuda: 186 prisoners 
#143   Seychelles: 157 prisoners 
#144   Saint Kitts and Nevis: 135 prisoners 
#145   Solomon Islands: 134 prisoners 
#146   Sao Tome and Principe: 130 prisoners 
#147   Tonga: 113 prisoners 
#148   Iceland: 104 prisoners 
#149   Palau: 103 prisoners 
#150   Vanuatu: 93 prisoners 
#151   Andorra: 61 prisoners 
#152   Kiribati: 55 prisoners 
#153   Micronesia, Federated States of: 39 prisoners 
#154   Marshall Islands: 23 prisoners 
#155   Liechtenstein: 18 prisoners 
#156   Monaco: 13 prisoners 
#157   Nauru: 6 prisoners 
#158   Tuvalu: 6 prisoners 
#159   Tajikistan: 0 prisoners 
#160   Comoros: 0 prisoners 
#161   Cuba: 0 prisoners 
#162   Uganda: 0 prisoners 
#163   Ethiopia: 0 prisoners 
#164   United Arab Emirates: 0 prisoners 
#165   Niger: 0 prisoners 
#166   Turkmenistan: 0 prisoners 
#167   Sudan: 0 prisoners 
#168   Zimbabwe: 0 prisoners 
Total: 8,570,051 prisoners  
Weighted average: 51,012.2 prisoners  


DEFINITION: Total persons incarcerated

SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

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Greg
28th June 2005 		It has always seemed to me that if the US would only issue identity cards that could be checked by authorities for any or no reasonwe could drop our crime rate significantly. One of the ;roblems with being the freeest society on earth is that you have a high crime rate (people seem to commit crimes if you let them) however if you look at some of the other stats around the world like execicutions per capita you will find that the US isn't such a bad place at all. We could drop our prison populations significantly if, like China, we simply killed them all.
JT (US)
28th April 2008 		It's called the War On Drugs (People)! Most of our "crime" is from the Government making money off of Prohibition again, it lines their pockets one way or the other.
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