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Asian countries with the most prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants as of July 2016

Countries with the largest number of prisoners per 100,000 of the national population in Asia as of July 2016

The data shows Asian countries with the most prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, as of July 16, 2016. With 583 detainees per 100,000 population, Turkmenistan had the highest prison population rate among all Asian countries.

Turkmenistan	583
Thailand	474
Maldives	421
Iran	287
Taiwan	267
Mongolia	266
Kazakhstan	221
Singapore	219
Macau (China)	200
Malaysia	172
Kyrgyzstan	167
Uzbekistan	150
Vietnam	146
Bhutan	145
Philippines	140
Brunei Darussalam	134
Tajikistan	121
Laos	119
China	118
Cambodia	116
Hong Kong (China)	115
Myanmar	113
South Korea	107
Sri Lanka	88
Afghanistan	74
Indonesia	69
Nepal	62
Japan	47
Pakistan	43
Bangladesh	43
India	33

Asian countries with the most prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants as of July 2016

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