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Most prisoners per capita

Most prisoners per capita
Who
Seychelles
What
799 per 100,000 people
Where
Seychelles
When
April 2016

According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, as of April 2016 the Seychelles had a rate of 799 prisoners for every 100,000 residents – ahead of the USA, which had 693 inmates per 100,000 citizens.

The USA had the most prison inmates for a country overall, with 2,217,947 as of July 2016 according to the International Centre for Prison Studies. China had the second largest prison population with 1,649,804, albeit taken from a much bigger population.