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Number of sentenced prisoners in China up until March 2014

The data displays the number of sentenced prisoners in China from 1979 to 2014. In 1979, there were around 621,000 sentenced prisoners in China. People held in detention centers and pre-trial detainees were excluded from that figure.

1979	621000
1990	1251481
1995	1320947
1998	1440000
2001	1428126
2004	1583006
2007	1642215
2010	1650000
April 2012	1640000
March 2014	1700000

Number of sentenced prisoners in China up until March 2014

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