Number of Prisoners

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Based on a comparison of 154 countries in 2015, USA ranked the highest in number of prisoners with 2,173,800 persons followed by China and Russia. On the other end of the scale was Monaco with 34.0 persons, Liechtenstein with 53.0 persons and Comoros with 145 persons.

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