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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     Norway: 46 
= 36     Morocco: 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     Bulgaria: 33 
= 45     Belgium: 33 
= 47     Ecuador: 32 
= 47     Dominican Republic: 32 
# 49     Hungary: 31 
# 50     Sri Lanka: 29 
# 51     Belarus: 27 
= 52     El Salvador: 21 
= 52     Panama: 21 
= 52     Croatia: 21 
# 55     Botswana: 20 
= 56     Slovakia: 18 
= 56     Moldova: 18 
= 56     New Zealand: 18 
# 59     Georgia: 17 
# 60     Ireland: 14 
# 61     Lithuania: 13 
# 62     Albania: 11 
= 63     Jordan: 10 
= 63     Kyrgyzstan: 10 
= 65     Maldives: 9 
= 65     Mauritius: 9 
= 67     Estonia: 7 
= 67     Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 7 
= 67     Jamaica: 7 
= 67     Philippines: 7 
# 71     Slovenia: 6 
# 72     Iceland: 5 
= 73     Suriname: 3 
= 73     Kazakhstan: 3 
# 75     Luxembourg: 2 
= 76     Cyprus: 1 
= 76     Montserrat: 1 
= 76     Dominica: 1 
= 76     Malta: 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) via NationMaster

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"Jails by country", 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). Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/red/graph/cri_jai-crime-jails&b_printable=1

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