List of countries by incarceration rate

This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each.

Incarceration rates and counts
The World Prison Brief (WPB) may or may not incorporate juvenile incarceration numbers into the totals for each country, dependent territory, or subnational area. The data below is the latest available at WPB at the time the data was copied here. See the individual WPB country and subnational area pages for more info on data, dates, juvenile numbers, and much more.

* indicates "Incarceration in LOCATION" or "Crime in LOCATION" links. ''Note: This table fully updated July 26, 2023. Some individual countries since then.'' ''Note: See N/A definition. "Not available" in this case.''

Territories or other subnational areas
To keep the above chart more compact the country names were stripped from the territories or other subnational areas. Here is that info as provided by World Prison Brief: