Prison population rate in Ghana 2000-2020

Published by
Doris Dokua Sasu,
Feb 8, 2023
The prison population rate in Ghana stood at 46 per 100,000 inhabitants as of 2020. This indicated a slight decrease from two years earlier, when the rate stood at 50 per 100,000 national population. Overall, Ghana counted more than 13.3 thousand people imprisoned in 2020.

Prison population rate in Ghana from 2000 to 2020 (per 100,000 inhabitants)

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Release date

February 2023

Region

Ghana

Survey time period

2000 to 2020

Supplementary notes

The date of publication is the date the data was accessed.
According to the source, the data is based on a national population estimate of 32.15 million at start of February 2023.

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