Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population
Compare unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population across 103 countries using official UN SDG Global Database observations for 2024.
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Key Insights
- •103 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
- •Haiti has the highest published value (83.62 %).
- •Algeria has the lowest published value (0.3 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 33.5%)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population (%).
Values use UN SDG series VC_PRS_UNSNT, release 2026.Q2.G.01, one fixed 2024 reference year, unit Percentage, and the fixed selection Reporting Type: Global; Sex: Both sexes. Aggregates, missing/non-finite values, other dimensions, other attributes, and non-ISO geographies are excluded; MapTheory does not impute missing countries.
Methodology
UN SDG series VC_PRS_UNSNT; year 2024; unit PERCENT; dimensions {"Reporting Type": "G", "Sex": "BOTHSEX"}; attributes {"Nature": "C", "Units": "PERCENT"} Official UN SDG metadata for indicator 16.3.2.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haiti | 83.6% |
| 2 | Gabon | 70.0% |
| 3 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 69.9% |
| 4 | Pakistan | 69.0% |
| 5 | Nigeria | 66.8% |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 66.2% |
| 7 | Paraguay | 63.9% |
| 8 | Saint Lucia | 62.1% |
| 9 | Albania | 62.0% |
| 10 | Dominican Republic | 62.0% |
| 11 | Niger | 62.0% |
| 12 | Grenada | 61.0% |
| 13 | Bolivia | 58.7% |
| 14 | Barbados | 57.9% |
| 15 | Guinea | 55.5% |
| 16 | Cameroon | 55.5% |
| 17 | Montenegro | 54.3% |
| 18 | Burundi | 53.1% |
| 19 | Armenia | 52.2% |
| 20 | Switzerland | 51.9% |
| 21 | Sierra Leone | 51.1% |
| 22 | Angola | 48.5% |
| 23 | Luxembourg | 48.3% |
| 24 | Senegal | 48.0% |
| 25 | Uganda | 47.2% |
| 26 | Mauritius | 46.2% |
| 27 | Iceland | 42.7% |
| 28 | Croatia | 42.4% |
| 29 | New Zealand | 42.3% |
| 30 | Monaco | 41.9% |
| 31 | Australia | 39.9% |
| 32 | Slovenia | 39.8% |
| 33 | Madagascar | 39.3% |
| 34 | Argentina | 38.8% |
| 35 | Guyana | 38.7% |
| 36 | Malta | 38.2% |
| 37 | Peru | 38.1% |
| 38 | South Africa | 38.0% |
| 39 | Andorra | 37.3% |
| 40 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 36.6% |
| 41 | Chile | 36.6% |
| 42 | Mexico | 36.3% |
| 43 | Panama | 35.2% |
| 44 | South Korea | 35.0% |
| 45 | Ukraine | 34.9% |
| 46 | Belize | 34.7% |
| 47 | Ecuador | 34.7% |
| 48 | Cote d'Ivoire | 33.7% |
| 49 | Solomon Islands | 32.7% |
| 50 | Malaysia | 32.6% |
| 51 | Seychelles | 31.7% |
| 52 | Burkina Faso | 29.0% |
| 53 | Latvia | 28.6% |
| 54 | Guatemala | 28.3% |
| 55 | Mozambique | 27.9% |
| 56 | Finland | 27.4% |
| 57 | Brazil | 27.3% |
| 58 | Netherlands | 27.2% |
| 59 | Germany | 27.0% |
| 60 | Sweden | 27.0% |
| 61 | Cambodia | 26.6% |
| 62 | France | 25.8% |
| 63 | Greece | 25.5% |
| 64 | Cyprus | 24.4% |
| 65 | Denmark | 23.9% |
| 66 | Costa Rica | 23.7% |
| 67 | Belgium | 23.6% |
| 68 | Zimbabwe | 23.5% |
| 69 | Norway | 22.4% |
| 70 | Portugal | 21.7% |
| 71 | Colombia | 21.7% |
| 72 | Serbia | 21.5% |
| 73 | Indonesia | 21.3% |
| 74 | Azerbaijan | 20.7% |
| 75 | Hungary | 20.7% |
| 76 | Estonia | 20.2% |
| 77 | Austria | 19.6% |
| 78 | Suriname | 19.4% |
| 79 | Ireland | 19.3% |
| 80 | Georgia | 19.3% |
| 81 | Mongolia | 19.0% |
| 82 | Zambia | 18.1% |
| 83 | Spain | 17.7% |
| 84 | Macao | 17.6% |
| 85 | Moldova, Republic of | 17.0% |
| 86 | Italy | 17.0% |
| 87 | Japan | 15.5% |
| 88 | Russian Federation | 15.5% |
| 89 | Türkiye | 14.4% |
| 90 | Liechtenstein | 14.3% |
| 91 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 14.0% |
| 92 | Singapore | 13.1% |
| 93 | Lithuania | 13.0% |
| 94 | Slovakia | 13.0% |
| 95 | Poland | 10.9% |
| 96 | Ghana | 10.5% |
| 97 | Morocco | 10.5% |
| 98 | Romania | 9.2% |
| 99 | Thailand | 8.9% |
| 100 | Bulgaria | 8.8% |
| 101 | Czech Republic | 8.2% |
| 102 | Taiwan, Province of China | 6.8% |
| 103 | Algeria | 0.3% |
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Data Source
This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).
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