Algeria

Capital city — Alger

Country population
42,200,000
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2018
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
153
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2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Constitutional Republic (Presidential D…
Human Development Index
0.759
(82/188)
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2018
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
1.4
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2017
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
65,000
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2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Prison density
89 %
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12/2014
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
131
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2013
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
no
Female prisoners
1.5 %
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12/2015
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarcerated minors
0.8 %
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12/2015
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Percentage of untried prisoners
12 %
estimated percent…
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09/2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
no, but abolitionist in practice
no execution sinc…
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Special populations

Women

Female prisoners

1.5 %

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12/2015

/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Minors

Incarcerated minors

0.8 %

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12/2015

/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Untried prisoners

Percentage of untried prisoners

12 % (7,560)

estimated percentage

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09/2018

/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Death penalty prisoners

Death penalty is abolished

no, but abolitionist in practice

no execution since 1993

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