Germany

Capital city — Berlin

Country population
83,200,000
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2017
/ World Prison Brief
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
77
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2017
/ ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional federal republic, with p…
Human Development Index
0.926
i
2016
/ UNDP
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
64,223
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2017
/ ICPR
Prison density
87 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
183
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2016
An NPM has been established
Yes
created in 2008
Female prisoners
5.9 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
20.9 %
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2017
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
Yes
since 1949 (RFA)…

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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

5.9 % (3,800)

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2017

/ ICPR

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

20.9 % (13,443)

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2017

/ ICPR

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

Yes

since 1949 (RFA) and 1987 (RDA)

Foreign prisoners

Number and percentage of foreign prisoners

31.3 %

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2015

/ ICPR