France

Capital city — Paris

Country population
68.35
million
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09/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
123
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09/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Semi-presidential regime
Human Development Index
0.92
(26/193)
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2023
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
1.34
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2023
/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of incarcerated people
84,311
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01/09/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
11.4
i
2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2024, table 31.
Prison density
134.7 %
On 1 February 202…
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01/09/2025
/ ministry of Justice, Statistiques des établissements et des personnes écrouées en France, Prison administration, p. 6.
Total number of prison facilities
186
Nineteen prisons…
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2025
/ ministry of Justice, Prison administration
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2007
Number and percentage of incarcerated w…
3.5 %
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01/09/2025
/ ministry of Justice, Statistiques des établissements et des personnes écrouées en France, Prison administration, table 31.
Number and percentage of incarcerated c…
1 %
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01/09/2025
/ ministry of Justice, Statistiques des établissements et des personnes écrouées en France, Prison administration, table 27.
Number and percentage of people awaitin…
26.5 %
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01/09/2025
/ ministry of Justice, Statistiques des établissements et des personnes écrouées en France, Prison administration, p. 6.
The death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1981
The last executio…

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