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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Malaysia: 26,294 
# 2   Hong Kong: 10,593 
# 3   Papua New Guinea: 9,474 
# 4   Latvia: 8,110 
# 5   Kuwait: 2,566 
# 6   United States: 1,558 
# 7   Oman: 1,164 
# 8   Russia: 739 
# 9   Turkey: 504 
# 10   Mexico: 448 
# 11   Indonesia: 362 
# 12   South Africa: 228 
# 13   Germany: 209 
# 14   Italy: 205 
# 15   Canada: 198 
# 16   Japan: 181 
# 17   Colombia: 168 
# 18   Argentina: 166 
# 19   Switzerland: 163 
# 20   Poland: 156 
# 21   Australia: 153 
# 22   United Kingdom: 144 
# 23   Thailand: 134 
# 24   Ukraine: 128 
# 25   Saudi Arabia: 104 
# 26   Chile: 96 
# 27   Sweden: 82 
# 28   Peru: 81 
# 29   Nepal: 73 
# 30   Netherlands: 70 
# 31   Denmark: 56 
# 32   Portugal: 54 
# 33   Zambia: 52 
# 34   Azerbaijan: 51 
# 35   Venezuela: 48 
= 36   Morocco: 46 
= 36   Norway: 46 
# 38   Egypt: 43 
# 39   Korea, South: 42 
= 40   Zimbabwe: 40 
= 40   Burma: 40 
# 42   Romania: 39 
# 43   Finland: 37 
# 44   Czech Republic: 35 
= 45   Belgium: 33 
= 45   Bulgaria: 33 
= 47   Dominican Republic: 32 
= 47   Ecuador: 32 
# 49   Hungary: 31 
# 50   Sri Lanka: 29 
# 51   Belarus: 27 
= 52   Croatia: 21 
= 52   Panama: 21 
= 52   El Salvador: 21 
# 55   Botswana: 20 
= 56   New Zealand: 18 
= 56   Moldova: 18 
= 56   Slovakia: 18 
# 59   Georgia: 17 
# 60   Ireland: 14 
# 61   Lithuania: 13 
# 62   Albania: 11 
= 63   Kyrgyzstan: 10 
= 63   Jordan: 10 
= 65   Mauritius: 9 
= 65   Maldives: 9 
= 67   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 7 
= 67   Estonia: 7 
= 67   Jamaica: 7 
= 67   Philippines: 7 
# 71   Slovenia: 6 
# 72   Iceland: 5 
= 73   Kazakhstan: 3 
= 73   Suriname: 3 
# 75   Luxembourg: 2 
= 76   Malta: 1 
= 76   Dominica: 1 
= 76   Montserrat: 1 
= 76   Cyprus: 1 
= 76   Qatar: 1 
Total: 65,679  
Weighted average: 821.0  



DEFINITION: Total number of adult prisons, penal or correctional institutions (excluding temporary jail lock-ups). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.

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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Malay guy
5th August 2009 		How can Malaysia have 26,000 jails? We have 39,000 prisoners.. thats 1.5 people per jail!!

Forget rent! get arrested!
Malay guy
5th August 2009 		26,000 jails in Malaysia?? for our 39,258 prisoners?
That is 1.5 prisoners per jail!

Talk about space! Forget rent move into jail!
Czech guy
16th December 2005 		You guys say there are 21,265 prisons in our country. Thats nonsense. There are only 35 of them http://www.vscr.cz/
We are a small country with like 15 banks and 35 universities, so having 21,265 prisons would be strange - i think we have about 100,000 prisonERs...
Jacque
23rd May 2005 		These stats are really useful. But you do need to get them updated.
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