1. Statistics on crime and criminal justice, Eurostat Working group meeting, 19–20 February 2009, Luxemburg
Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics – 2006 SPACE Survey Marcelo F. Aebi & Natalia Delgrande

2. 2006 SPACE Survey Marcelo F. Aebi & Natalia Stadnic (Delgrande)
48 States answered the questionnaire
1,790,000 prisoners
220 prisoners per 100,000 population
Average rate: 147 prisoners per 100,000 population
Median rate: 114 prisoners per 100,000 population
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3. Prison population rates per 100,000 inhabitants on 1st September 2006
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4. Classification by prison population rates (from high rates to low rates)
Eastern Europe (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova)
Caucasian area (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia)
Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Germany, and Austria)
Western Europe (United Kingdom, France, Monaco, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland)
South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey)
Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, and Slovenia)
Scandinavian Countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland)
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5. Methodology
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6. Methodology
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8. Decrease of more than 5% (2005-6)
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9. Increase of more than 5% (2005-6)
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10. Evolution (in %) of prison population rates between 2000 and 2006, adjusted annual variation
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11. Evolution (in %) of prison population rates between 2000 and 2005
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12. Prison population rates (2005) vs
Prison population rates (2005) vs. Evolution (in %) of prison population rates (2000-5)
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15. Percentage of foreign prisoners
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16. Percentage of foreign prisoners
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17. Foreign prisoners
Most of the countries that present the highest percentage of foreigners in prisons are below the European average of prisoners per 100,000 population (147) and even below the median rate (114).
One hypothetical explanation for this situation is that countries with a relatively high number of foreign prisoners tend to send less national citizens to prison (e.g. they may use alternatives to imprisonment for some of their citizens).
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18. Switzerland: Composition of the prison population (1983-2006)
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19. Spain: Composition of the prison population (1983-2006)
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20. Stock, flow and average length of detention
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