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Selected incarceration rates worldwide. The stats source is the World Prison Population List, 8th edition. PDF file. By Roy Walmsley. Published in 2009. International Centre for Prison Studies. School of Law, King's College London. "The information is the latest available in early December 2008. … Most figures relate to dates between the beginning of 2006 and the end of November 2008."
See also the latest data here: World Prison Brief. Compare many nations. Select from menu: prison population totals, prison population rates (highest to lowest), percentage of pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners within the prison population, percentage of female prisoners within the prison population, percentage of foreign prisoners within the prison population, and occupancy rates. See also: en: List of countries by incarceration rate.
See license information section below.http://www.november.org/graphs is a November Coalition page with charts. That page says "These graphs are in the public domain."
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