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DEFINITION:
The percentage of the offical prison capacity filled. This is obtained by comparing the number of prisoners in a nation to the offical capacity of the nation's prison system. Data for 2003.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH |
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1 | Thailand | 230.8% | 2003 | |
2 | Pakistan | 222.5% | 2003 | |
3 | South Africa | 159.4% | 2003 | |
4 | Philippines | 156.4% | 2003 | |
5 | Hungary | 147.7% | 2003 | |
6 | Peru | 137.8% | 2003 | |
=7 | Colombia | 136.5% | 2003 | |
=7 | India | 136.5% | 2003 | |
9 | Chile | 134.3% | 2003 | |
10 | Brazil | 133.8% | 2003 | |
11 | Indonesia | 128.9% | 2003 | |
12 | Mexico | 123.6% | 2003 | |
13 | Malaysia | 122.5% | 2003 | |
14 | Argentina | 119.9% | 2003 | |
15 | Poland | 116.4% | 2003 | |
16 | Romania | 115.3% | 2003 | |
17 | Venezuela | 97.2% | 2003 | |
18 | Estonia | 94.2% | 2003 | |
19 | Turkey | 91.1% | 2003 | |
20 | Bulgaria | 91% | 2003 | |
21 | Russia | 90.2% | 2003 | |
22 | Ukraine | 90% | 2003 | |
23 | Latvia | 86.4% | 2003 | |
24 | Lithuania | 84.2% | 2003 |
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Interesting observations about Crime > Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
- Greece ranked first for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Europe in 2003.
- Barbados ranked first for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Christian countries in 2003.
- Thailand ranked first for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Emerging markets in 2003.
- Hungary ranked first for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Cold countries in 2003.
- United States ranked last for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2003.
- Italy ranked third for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst European Union in 2003.
- Chile ranked second for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst High income OECD countries in 2003.
- Honduras ranked first for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Former Spanish colonies in 2003.
- Burundi ranked first for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Catholic countries in 2003.
- Bangladesh ranked second for prisoners > share of prison capacity filled amongst Former British colonies in 2003.