World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List
(second edition)
Roy Walmsley
Introduction
The World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List gives
details of the number of prisoners held in pre-trial
detention and other forms of remand imprisonment in 211
independent countries and dependent territories. It also
shows the percentage of pre-trial/remand prisoners within
each national prison population and the pre-trial/remand
population rate (the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners
per 100,000 of the national population). Information is also
given on the trend in the pre-trial/remand population rate.
An estimate is made of the total world pre-trial/remand
population and attention is drawn to differences in the
level of pre-trial/remand imprisonment across the world.
The information is the latest available at the beginning of
May 2014.
The International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS)
published in November 2013 the tenth edition of the
World Prison Population List. This World Pre-trial/Remand
Imprisonment List (like the World Female Imprisonment
List, the second edition of which was published in 2012)
provides information about a specific section of the
prison population; both of them complement the World
Prison Population List and the information which the ICPS
publishes and updates monthly in the World Prison Brief
section of its website (www.prisonstudies.org).
In providing information about prisoners held in pre-trial
and other forms of remand imprisonment, this List refers
to those persons who, in connection with an alleged
offence or offences, are deprived of liberty following
a judicial or other legal process but have not been
definitively sentenced by a court for the offence(s). They
will be in one of five stages, although not all legal systems
and not all cases will involve all five stages:
• the ‘investigation’ stage, when they are being
interrogated to see if there is justification for bringing a
court case against them;
• the ‘awaiting trial’ stage, after the investigation has
ended and a decision has been taken to bring a court
case;
• the ‘trial’ stage, while the trial is actually taking place;
• the stage when they have been convicted by the court
but not yet sentenced – the ‘convicted unsentenced’
stage; and
• the ‘awaiting final sentence’ stage, when they have
been provisionally sentenced by the court but are
awaiting the result of an appeal process which occurs
before the definitive sentence is confirmed.
The World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List has been
compiled, like the World Prison Population List, from a
variety of sources. In almost all cases the original source
is the national prison administration of the country
concerned, or else the Ministry responsible for the prison
administration.
Key points
CC Two and a half million people in pre-trial detention and
other forms of remand imprisonment are recorded in this
List. In addition it is believed that there are about 250,000
such prisoners in China and, taking account of those in the
countries on which official information is unavailable and of
those pre-trial detainees in police facilities who are omitted
from national totals, there will be close to three million
held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand
imprisonment throughout the world.
CC The total includes some 480,000 in the United States,
255,000 in India, 195,000 in Brazil, 116,000 in Russia,
107,000 in Mexico, 70,000 in the Philippines, 66,000 in
Thailand, 55,000 in Iran, 50,000 in both Indonesia and
Pakistan, 48,000 in Turkey, 47,000 in Bangladesh, 44,000
in South Africa, 40,000 in Colombia, 37,000 in both Nigeria
and Peru, 35,000 in Venezuela, 32,000 in Morocco and
31,000 in Argentina.
CC In a majority of countries (56%) the proportion of the
total prison population who are in pre-trial/remand
imprisonment is between 10% and 40%. But pre-trial/
remand prisoners constitute more than 40% of the prison
population in about half the countries of Africa and the
Americas and in South Central Asia and Western Asia.
CC The countries with the highest proportion of the total prison
population in pre-trial/remand imprisonment are: Comoros
(92%), Libya (87%), Liberia and Bolivia (both 83%),
Democratic Republic of Congo (82%), Benin, Congo and
Lebanon (all 75%), Monaco (73%), Paraguay (72.5%), Haiti
(71%), Cameroon and Yemen (both 70%), Nigeria (69%),
Bangladesh (68%), Philippines, Uruguay and Venezuela (all
67%) and India and Pakistan (both 66%)
CC In a majority of countries (55%) the pre-trial/remand
population rate is below 40 per 100,000 of the national
population. However, in the Americas only three countries
do not exceed that level and thirteen countries have rates
of more than 150 per 100,000.
CC Guam, the U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean, has the highest
rate in the world, with 272 per 100,000 of the island’s
population, followed by Panama (261), Grenada (209), Belize
(202), U.S. Virgin Islands (195), Uruguay (194), Antigua
& Barbuda (186), St Kitts & Nevis (181), Curacao (169),
Seychelles (163), Barbados (162), Bahamas (159), Trinidad &
Tobago (157), U.S.A. (153) and Anguilla-U.K (150).
CC The available trend information shows that the pre-trial/
remand population rate (the proportion of the national
population that are in pre-trial/remand imprisonment) has
grown in 98 countries and fallen in 80. In Africa and Asia
it has fallen in more countries than it has grown but in
Europe and Oceania it has grown in more countries than
it has fallen and in the Americas the rate has grown in 32
countries and fallen only in seven.
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World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (second edition)
Table 1 AFRICA
Total number
Date
Percentage
Estimated
Pre-trial/remand
in pre-trial/
of total
national
population rate
remandprisonpopulation(per 100,000 of
imprisonmentpopulation
(at date shown)
national pop’n)
Trend information
(pre-trial/remand
population rate)
Northern Africa
Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
Sudan
Tunisia
5,5008/12
10.0%36.57m
152000 32; 2004 31; 2008 20
6,39231/12/06
9.9%73.61m
92001 16; 2005 12
4,440
15/9/13
87.2%6.21m712004 121; 2007 110; 2010 104
32,626
30/9/12
46.2%32.65m 1002000 79; 2005 87; 2010 95
3,893/13
20.4%37.96m
102003 4; 2011 7
13,00011/1352.0%10.88m 119
not available
Western Africa
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde
Côte d’Ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea (Conakry)
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
5,174
/10
74.9%8.85m 582002 46; 2007 67
2,41831/12/13 41.5%18.17m
132000 11; 2005 10; 2010 12
399/12
29.6%494,000
811999 65; 2010 66
c. 3,91631/12/13 c. 44.0%
20.55m
c. 192002 22; 2007 17
c. 300 31/12/13
c. 30.0%1.88m c. 16
1999 8; 2009 14
3,0127/10/13 21.4%26.25m
112001 11; 2005 17; 2010 14
c. 1,690/13
c. 65.0%11.75m c. 142002 17; 2008 18
c. 1,516
/13
c. 83.0%
4.29m
c. 35
2007 23; 2009 29
2,492/13
50.2%15.30m
162002 25; 2011 17
807/13
48.5%3.89m 21
2010 19
3,845/13
54.0%17.83m22
2007 27; 2010 16
36,98330/6/13 68.7%
170.23m
222000 22; 2005 20; 2010 22
3,49121/12/12 41.4%13.24m
262000 18; 2005 19; 2008 23
1,913
18/9/13
58.3%
6.12m31
2005 14; 2009 19
2,648/13
61.8%6.41m 41
not available
Central Africa
Angola
Cameroon
Chad
Congo (Brazzaville)
Dem Rep of Congo
Gabon
Sao Tome e Principe
South Sudan
9,487
11/11
47.7%19.81m
16,80012/1170.0%21.41m
3,06431/12/11 63.4%12.26m
c. 975 31/12/12
75.0%4.39m
c.18,000
/10
c. 82.0%
62.19m
c. 1,166/13
c. 33.3%
1.67m
2530/9/13 12.9%194,000
c. 3,600
6/11
c. 45.0%
10.38m
48
1999 29; 2003 23
782003 76; 2008 76
252005 20
c. 22
not available
c. 29
not available
c. 702006 78
132002 53; 2006 45; 2010 49
c. 35
not available
Eastern Africa
Burundi
Comoros
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Mayotte (France)
4,03531/12/13 51.8%9.13m 442002 77; 2005 66; 2010 69
189
10/13
91.7%740,000
26
not available
c. 275/13
c. 50.0%873,000 c. 321999 47; 2011 44
15,723
2009-10
14.0%
82.44m
19
1999-2000 48; 2004-05 33
18,72010/1236.0%42.97m
44
2001 45; 2005 61; 2009 51
c. 9,921/13
53.0%
22.48m
c. 441999 88; 2005 78; 2010 38
1,9574/9/13 15.6%16.35m
122001 19; 2005 17; 2010 8
1,05216/1/13 39.5%1.32m 802000 33; 2005 67; 2009 59
5,1089/13
32.6%25.10m
201999 49; 2008 23
3,952 31/12/127.1%11.41m
35
not available
144
13/8/12
24.3%88,500163
2006 33; 2010 148
17,22417/10/13 50.1%49.17m
352000 54; 2005 52; 2010 44
c. 16,8306/12
52.0%35.50m c. 47
2005 53; 2008 48; 2010 52
3,95017/9/13 23.2%14.29m
282000 29; 2005 43; 2007 66
3,6898/2/10 27.6%12.53m
292000 46; 2005 43; 2010 29
852/6/09 39.5%
198,00043
not available
Southern Africa
Botswana
Lesotho
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland
Figures not available
1,000
9/13
24.6%2.02m50
2000 58; 2004 82; 2009 45
474/13
19.7%2.24m 21
2005 23; 2009 21
c. 3401/12/10 c. 8.0%2.30m c. 152001 13; 2007 15
43,7358/4/14 27.8%53.51m
82
2000 127; 2005 97; 2010 93
6193/12
18.1%1.22m 51
2002 148; 2005 103; 2009 62
Western Africa: Guinea Bissau.
Central Africa: Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea.
Eastern Africa: Eritrea, Somalia, Réunion (France).
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World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (second edition)
Table 2 AMERICAS
Total number
Date
Percentage
Estimated
Pre-trial/remand
in pre-trial/
of total
national
population rate
remandprisonpopulation(per 100,000 of
imprisonmentpopulation
(at date shown)
national pop’n)
Trend information
(pre-trial/remand
population rate)
North America
Canada
13,922*
2010-11
35.0%34.09m
412000-01 28; 05-06 37; 08-09 43
*(average daily population, including young offenders, 1/4/2010-31/3/2011)
USA
c. 480,860/12
c. 21.6%315.09m c. 153
2000 123; 2005 156; 2010 157
Bermuda (UK)
2531/10/07
9.6%65,000
382003 103
Greenland (Denmark)
37
avrge 13
21.2%56,500
652000 12; 2005 16; 2010 81
Central America
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
67331/8/13 40.8%333,000
2022001 51; 2005 116; 2010 98
3,35731/7/12 22.4%4.77m 702002 46; 2005 58; 2010 59
5,86127/1/14 21.9%6.32m 932001 86; 2005 58; 2010 129
8,20913/8/13 50.3%15.50m
532001 37; 2005 25; 2010 38
c. 6,4859/13
50.0%8.12m c. 80
1999 157; 2005 106; 2010 75
106,54128/2/14 42.6%118.10m
902000 64; 2005 83; 2010 82
1,12731/12/12 12.3%6.01m 192004 15; 2008 25
9,59330/9/13 63.4%3.68m 2612000 176; 2005 223; 2010 203
Caribbean
Antigua & Barbuda
17125/7/13 46.1%92,000 1862005 62; 2007 78; 2011 159
Bahamas
c. 60010/13
c. 42.0%378,500 c. 1592002 93; 2005 196; 2010 139
Barbados
4591/13
44.1%284,000
1622000 188; 2007 112; 2009 120
Dominica
608/13
23.9%68,000
881999 183; 2005 84; 2007 69
Dominican Republic
13,28531/7/13 53.2%10.29m 1292000 143; 2005 105; 2010 137
Grenada
21913/2/12 52.3%105,000
2092002 44; 2005 40; 2009 76
Haiti
7,019
4/8/13
70.6%10.33m
681999 36; 2005 35; 2010 36
Jamaica
62022/9/13 14.8%2.77m 222003 21; 2005 30; 2009 22
St Kitts & Nevis
9826/8/13 29.7%54,000 181
1999 64; 2005 115; 2010 110
St Lucia
23211/1240.8%179,000
1301999 68; 2005 99; 2010 142
St Vincent & Grenadines
1063/13
23.0%109,000
972001 47; 2006 73; 2011 116
Trinidad & Tobago
2,10022/10/13 43.3%1.34m 1572000 116; 2005 121; 2008 121
Anguilla (UK)
2118/12/12 27.6%
14,000
150
2007 131
Aruba (Netherlands)
466/07
16.6%101,000
462005 10
Cayman Islands (UK)
3831/8/09 19.6%56,340
671999 48; 2004 125
Curacao (Netherlands)
2426/6/07 41.0%
142,870
169
2002 329; 2006 140
Martinique (France)
436
1/5/11
49.3%
407,000107
not available
Puerto Rico (US)
2,2357/06
15.7%3.93m 57
not available
Sint Maarten (Neth)
17
9/7/07
18.1%
39,470
43
not available
Virgin Is. (UK)
38
12/10
32.5%
27,000
141
not available
Virgin Is. (US)
208
3/13
36.4%
106,700
195
not available
South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
31,30131/12/12 50.3%41.72m
752002 70; 2005 82; 2010 76
12,309/13
83.3%10.53m 1172000 64; 2005 54; 2009 61
195,03612/1238.0%199.78m
982000 46; 2005 55; 2010 84
11,01731/3/14 24.9%17.67m
622000 104; 2005 79; 2010 69
39,73031/3/14 33.4%48.66m
822000 51; 2005 59; 2010 56
c. 8,90010/12/13 c. 36.0%14.30m c. 622001 43; 2005 59; 2009 52
69031/12/12 34.0%756,500
912001 57; 2005 64; 2010 125
6,695/13
72.5%6.79m 991999 72; 2005 76; 2010 67
36,67012/1354.2%30.68m 1202001 59; 2005 84; 2010 92
c. 5052/11
c. 50.0%528,000 c. 96
not available
6,5942/13
67.1%3.40m 1941999 94; 2006 124; 2010 172
35,342/13
66.8%30.41m 1162000 26; 2005 36; 2010 98
Figures not available
Caribbean: Cuba, Guadeloupe (France).
South America: French Guiana/Guyane (France).
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World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (second edition)
Table 3 ASIA
Total number
Date
Percentage
Estimated
Pre-trial/remand
in pre-trial/
of total
national
population rate
remandprisonpopulation(per 100,000 of
imprisonmentpopulation
(at date shown)
national pop’n)
Trend information
(pre-trial/remand
population rate)
Western Asia
Bahrain
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
882
/12
38.2%839,000105
not available
20,821 31/12/12
46.1%
34.24m
61
not available
7,85231/12/08 35.8%7.19m 1092003 43; 2005 48; 2007 114
2,95718/8/11 47.2%6.35m 472001 48; 2005 57
c. 410/11
c. 10.0%
3.13m
c. 13
2002 26; 2005 15; 2009 14
3,98117/12/13 75.3%4.89m 812000 96; 2005 92; 2009 75
78
/02
5.6%
2.31m
3
not available
c. 500
/13
c. 43.5%2.17m c. 23
2006 31
16,790/02
58.7%21.46m78
2000 78
5,353/04
50.5%17.68m
302003 39
5,134/06
45.9%4.88m105
2003 109; 2005 107
9,920
2/13
70.1%
25.96m
38
2004 30; 2006 23; 2010 25
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
6,6011/1/14 13.2%17.17m
382000 110; 2005 55; 2010 50
2,0561/1/12 20.9%5.43m 382003 55; 2006 52; 2009 36
1,1001/1/08 15.0%7.19m 172006 28
1,356
/06
12.4%
4.80m
28
2005 25
c. 3,400/07
c. 10.0%26.67m c. 132003 22
South Central Asia
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
India
Iran
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
7,365 31/12/13
25.4%
35.05m
21
2006 15; 2010 15
46,919
12/12
68.3%155.57m
302003 32; 2006 33; 2010 33
254,85731/12/12 66.2%1,266.8m
202000 18; 2005 21; 2010 19
c. 55,0007/12
c. 25.0%75.68m c. 732010 58
5,00313/3/09 58.9%29.28m
172002 17; 2005 14
49,58231/12/12 66.2%180.65m
27
1999 43; 2004 33; 2009 34
9,83515/10/13 43.9%21.44m
46
2000 44; 2005 57; 2010 67
South Eastern Asia
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar (Burma)
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Vietnam
51mid-13 9.3%420,000
122000 10; 2005 10; 2010 4
8,8393/14
60.5%14.73m
602000 16; 2005 18; 2010 31
49,690mid-12 32.8%244.79m
202000 10; 2005 18; 2010 20
40
mid-04
1.0%5.70m7
not available
8,887mid-13 21.9%29.76m
302000 33; 2005 51; 2010 37
6,495mid-09 10.8%51.54m
132001 10; 2007 15
c. 70,000
/13
c. 63.1%98.13m c. 712001 45; 2005 68; 2010 60
3,277
mid-13
24.6%5.51m 592000 59; 2005 70; 2010 40
66,4171/3/14 22.7%67.15m
992000 128; 2005 63; 2010 80
c. 136 31/12/13
c. 31.7%1.14m c. 12
2003 23; 2009 9
15,150
mid-12
11.6%
90.80m17
not available
Eastern Asia
Japan
Korea (Republic of)
Mongolia
Taiwan
Hong Kong (China)
Macau (China)
Figures not available
6,94130/6/13
16,35230/6/13
1,150mid-13
3,27531/1/14
1,53231/12/13
23831/12/12
10.7%127.26m
33.7%48.84m
14.5%2.89m
5.1%23.38m
16.9%7.20m
21.4%582,000
52000 9; 2005 8; 2010 6
332000 54; 2005 37; 2010 32
402003 64; 2005 74; 2010 57
142000 26; 2005 28; 2010 22
212000 19; 2005 17; 2010 19
41
2000 41; 2005 40; 2010 42
South Central Asia: Bhutan, Maldives.
Eastern Asia: China, Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea).
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World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (second edition)
Table 4 EUROPE
Total number
Date
Percentage
Estimated
Pre-trial/remand
in pre-trial/
of total
national
population rate
remandprisonpopulation(per 100,000 of
imprisonmentpopulation
(at date shown)
national pop’n)
Trend information
(pre-trial/remand
population rate)
Northern Europe
1,3821/9/13 33.8%5.61m 252000 17; 2005 19; 2010 25
56114/4/14 18.8%1.31m 432000 119; 2005 81; 2010 62
6061/1/13 19.3%5.43m 11
2000 7; 2005 10; 2010 11
131/9/13 8.4%321,400
42000 6; 2005 6; 2010 4
5642/14
14.1%4.60m 122000 10; 2005 11; 2010 14
2,2424/14
42.5%2.00m 1122000 153; 2005 115; 2010 89
1,1791/1/13 12.1%2.96m 402000 63; 2005 37; 2010 36
1,0491/9/13 28.7%5.10m 212000 14; 2005 13; 2010 21
1,4201/10/13 24.5%9.61m 15
2000 15; 2005 16; 2010 18
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Iceland
Ireland
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Sweden
United Kingdom
– England & Wales
– Northern Ireland
– Scotland
Faeroe Is. (Denmark)
Guernsey (UK)
Isle of Man (UK)
Jersey (UK)
11,80031/3/14 13.8%57.26m
212000 22; 2005 24; 2010 24
43731/12/13 24.3%1.84m 242000 19; 2005 26; 2010 28
1,50825/4/14 19.4%5.34m 282000 19; 2005 23; 2010 28
3
avrge 13
26.9%48,1205
2003 10; 2005 2; 2010 7
2025/4/14 20.4%66,000
301999 26; 2004 33; 2010 33
149/9/13 14.4%86,000
16
2000 13; 2005 20; 2010 33
3610/9/13 22.1%98,750
362001 30; 2005 54; 2010 55
Southern Europe
Albania
Andorra
Bosnia & Herzegovina
– Federation
– Republika Srpska
Croatia
Cyprus
2,09010/1340.2%2.87m
1719/12/12 47.2%86,850
73
2001 47; 2005 55; 2010 59
202001 51; 2005 17; 2010 24
258
1/9/12
15.2%2.35m 112000 15; 2005 11; 2010 14
96 31/12/13
9.6%1.33m7
2001 13; 2005 13; 2010 14
7671/1/13 16.2%4.38m 182000 17; 2005 20; 2010 27
368*1/9/12 39.6%864,600*
432000 6; 2005 13; 2010 50
*(Does not include the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).)
Greece
4,2541/1/12 34.1%11.29m
382000 20; 2005 22; 2010 31
Italy
21,65931/3/14 36.0%60.05m
36
2000 41; 2005 37; 2010 49
Kosovo/Kosova
602 15/11/13
35.5%1.83m33
2001 19; 2004 23; 2009 23
Macedonia (F Yug Rep) c. 50012/13
c. 16.6%2.06m c. 24
2000 11; 2005 13; 2010 23
Malta
1821/9/11 30.4%416,700
442001 20; 2005 24; 2009 41
Montenegro
348
9/13
32.6%623,60056
2002 36; 2006 66; 2010 107
Portugal
2,5011/4/14 17.3%10.42m
24
2000 38; 2005 29; 2010 22
San Marino*
01/9/12
0%32,500
0
1999 0; 2005 3; 2010 0
*(By agreement with Italy, most persons imprisoned by San Marino are held in Italian prisons.)
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Gibraltar (UK)
2,532 31/12/12
24.8%7.21m35
2000 17; 2005 32; 2010 46
2191/9/13 16.1%2.06m 11
2000 17; 2005 16; 2010 16
8,95125/4/14 13.4%46.41m
192000 23; 2005 32; 2010 32
3131/12/11 40.3%29,750 1042001 11; 2005 35; 2010 65
Western Europe
Austria
Belgium
France
1,7541/12/12 20.1%8.48m
3,600
avrge 12
31.8%11.14m
16,759*1/4/14 26.1%64.13m*
212000 21; 2005 24; 2010 23
322000 30; 2005 34; 2010 34
26
2000 29; 2005 32; 2010 24
*(Metropolitan France, excluding departments and territories in Africa, the Americas and Oceania.)
Germany
Liechtenstein*
11,27130/11/13 18.0%80.70m
211/1328.6%36,800
142000 22; 2005 19; 2010 13
5
2002 21; 2006 11; 2010 20
*(By agreement with Austria, some persons imprisoned by Liechtenstein are held in Austrian prisons.)
Luxembourg
Monaco*
2981/9/13 41.6%546,700
30
1/9/12
73.2%36,000
55
83
2000 41; 2005 60; 2010 60
2000 26; 2005 57; 2010 8
*(By agreement with France, some persons imprisoned by Monaco are held in French prisons.)
Netherlands
Switzerland
5,40630/9/12 47.3%16.79m
2,8704/9/13 40.6%8.10m
322000 27; 2005 38; 2010 34
352000 33; 2005 32; 2010 32
Europe/Asia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Russian Federation
Turkey
1,16724/5/13 24.5%2.98m
3,4937/13
17.7%9.42m
1,78131/3/14 18.0%4.50m
115,6001/4/14 17.1%143.7m
48,2421/9/12 40.1%75.39m
5
392001 25; 2005 24; 2010 45
372002 28; 2006 28; 2010 30
402000 57; 2005 117; 2010 61
802000 160; 2005 113; 2010 83
642000 44; 2005 42; 2010 77
World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (second edition)
Table 4 cont. EUROPE
Total number
Date
Percentage
Estimated
Pre-trial/remand
in pre-trial/
of total
national
population rate
remandprisonpopulation(per 100,000 of
imprisonmentpopulation
(at date shown)
national pop’n)
Trend information
(pre-trial/remand
population rate)
Central and Eastern Europe
5,8001/10/12 18.2%9.45m
2,3511/1/12 21.1%7.33m
2,14431/3/14 12.5%10.53m
5,24730/9/13 28.8%9.90m
1,260*1/10/13 18.9%3.56m*
Belarus
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Hungary
Moldova
61
2000 106; 2005 77; 2009 65
322000 26; 2005 26; 2010 26
202000 58; 2005 28; 2010 24
532000 40; 2005 39; 2010 48
352000 89; 2005 61; 2010 29
*(Does not include the internationally unrecognized Transnistria.)
6,97731/3/14 8.6%38.53m
2,52131/3/14 9.3%19.93m
1,51331/3/14 14.9%5.42m
21,1111/4/14 17.3%
45.13m
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
Ukraine
182000 58; 2005 35; 2010 22
132000 48; 2005 25; 2010 22
282000 35; 2005 53; 2010 27
542000 90; 2005 82; 2010 83
Table 5 OCEANIA
Total number
Date
Percentage
Estimated
Pre-trial/remand
in pre-trial/
of total
national
population rate
remandprisonpopulation(per 100,000 of
imprisonmentpopulation
(at date shown)
national pop’n)
Trend information
(pre-trial/remand
population rate)
Australia
7,375
30/6/13
24.0%23.15m
32
2000 20; 2005 25; 2010 29
Fiji
3449/13
22.5%890,000
392000 8; 2005 12; 2010 35
Kiribati
136/9/13 9.2%102,300
132000 8; 2005 2; 2010 4
Marshall Is.
29/135.6%53,000
42010 8
Micronesia (Fed States of) 20 31/12/13
18.7%
104,00019
not available
Nauru
5 31/12/10
25.0%10,000502005 0
New Zealand
1,55531/12/13 18.9%4.49m 35
2000 19; 2005 27; 2010 44
Palau
430/4/05 4.1%20,000
20
not available
Papua New Guinea
1,22931/12/13 31.8%7.40m 172000 26; 2005 21; 2009 39
Samoa
26
26/9/07
14.0%182,50014
2003 11
Solomon Is.
1067/10/13 32.5%584,000
181999 11; 2005 22; 2010 18
Tonga
331/12/11
1.9%105,000
32002 4; 2005 3; 2009 1
Tuvalu
0
9/13
0%10,0000
2005 0; 2010 10
Vanuatu
2431/12/12 12.4%255,000
92002 3; 2005 12; 2010 17
American Samoa (US)
3331/12/05 14.9%59,000
56
not available
Cook Is. (NZ)
121/11/11
4.0%20,000
52000 11; 2005 5
French Polynesia (France)
90
3/12
21.4%
276,000
33
not available
Guam (US)
4494/6/13 64.5%165,000
2722005 108; 2011 222
Figures not available
New Caledonia (France), Northern Mariana Is. (US).
Sources The figures in the above tables originate almost always from the national prison administration or the
Ministry responsible for prisons. Some were obtained indirectly, via national statistical offices, via United Nations
surveys, via surveys for the annual meetings of the Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators,
via the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE) and via U.S. State Department human rights reports.
Roy Walmsley is a consultant to the United Nations and an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies
(ICPS). At ICPS he is director of the World Prison Brief, a comprehensive online database of information on the prison
systems of the world, which is available free of charge at www.prisonstudies.org
He also researches and compiles the World Prison Population List (tenth edition, 2013) and the World Female
Imprisonment List (second edition, 2012), which are also published by the International Centre for Prison Studies.
International Centre for Prison Studies Telephone +44 (0)20 3667 7883
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