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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.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database103 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
33.5%
Median: 29.0%
Countries Covered
103
with available data
Highest
Haiti
83.6%
Lowest
Algeria
0.3%
Top 5 Countries
1Haiti83.6%
2Gabon70.0%
3Saint Vincent and the Grenadines69.9%
4Pakistan69.0%
5Nigeria66.8%
By Region
Oceania41.1%(2 countries)
Other40.3%(47 countries)
South America32.8%(6 countries)
North America32.3%(2 countries)
Asia29.8%(9 countries)
Key Findings
  • 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

Low (0.3%)High (83.6%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 33.5%)

Oceania (2)
Other (47)
South America (6)
North America (2)
Asia (9)
Africa (6)
Europe (31)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

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
1Haiti83.6%
2Gabon70.0%
3Saint Vincent and the Grenadines69.9%
4Pakistan69.0%
5Nigeria66.8%
6Sri Lanka66.2%
7Paraguay63.9%
8Saint Lucia62.1%
9Albania62.0%
10Dominican Republic62.0%
11Niger62.0%
12Grenada61.0%
13Bolivia58.7%
14Barbados57.9%
15Guinea55.5%
16Cameroon55.5%
17Montenegro54.3%
18Burundi53.1%
19Armenia52.2%
20Switzerland51.9%
21Sierra Leone51.1%
22Angola48.5%
23Luxembourg48.3%
24Senegal48.0%
25Uganda47.2%
26Mauritius46.2%
27Iceland42.7%
28Croatia42.4%
29New Zealand42.3%
30Monaco41.9%
31Australia39.9%
32Slovenia39.8%
33Madagascar39.3%
34Argentina38.8%
35Guyana38.7%
36Malta38.2%
37Peru38.1%
38South Africa38.0%
39Andorra37.3%
40Bosnia and Herzegovina36.6%
41Chile36.6%
42Mexico36.3%
43Panama35.2%
44South Korea35.0%
45Ukraine34.9%
46Belize34.7%
47Ecuador34.7%
48Cote d'Ivoire33.7%
49Solomon Islands32.7%
50Malaysia32.6%
51Seychelles31.7%
52Burkina Faso29.0%
53Latvia28.6%
54Guatemala28.3%
55Mozambique27.9%
56Finland27.4%
57Brazil27.3%
58Netherlands27.2%
59Germany27.0%
60Sweden27.0%
61Cambodia26.6%
62France25.8%
63Greece25.5%
64Cyprus24.4%
65Denmark23.9%
66Costa Rica23.7%
67Belgium23.6%
68Zimbabwe23.5%
69Norway22.4%
70Portugal21.7%
71Colombia21.7%
72Serbia21.5%
73Indonesia21.3%
74Azerbaijan20.7%
75Hungary20.7%
76Estonia20.2%
77Austria19.6%
78Suriname19.4%
79Ireland19.3%
80Georgia19.3%
81Mongolia19.0%
82Zambia18.1%
83Spain17.7%
84Macao17.6%
85Moldova, Republic of17.0%
86Italy17.0%
87Japan15.5%
88Russian Federation15.5%
89Türkiye14.4%
90Liechtenstein14.3%
91The Republic of North Macedonia14.0%
92Singapore13.1%
93Lithuania13.0%
94Slovakia13.0%
95Poland10.9%
96Ghana10.5%
97Morocco10.5%
98Romania9.2%
99Thailand8.9%
100Bulgaria8.8%
101Czech Republic8.2%
102Taiwan, Province of China6.8%
103Algeria0.3%
Showing 103 of 103 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).

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