
India: Imprisonment rate
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India |
Number of prisoners per 100,000 people |
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Latest value | 32 |
Reference | 2015 |
Measure | prisoners per 100,000 people |
Source | The UN office on drugs and crime |
For that indicator, we provide data for India from 2002 to 2015. The average value for India during that period was 31 prisoners per 100,000 people with a minimum of 28 prisoners per 100,000 people in 2002 and a maximum of 32 prisoners per 100,000 people in 2005.
The latest value from 2015 is 32 prisoners per 100,000 people. For comparison, the world average in 2015 based on 122
countries is 162 prisoners per 100,000 people.
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Definition: Number of prisoners per 100,000 people.