Poland

Capital city — Warsaw

Country population
36,620,970
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31/01/2024
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2024, table 3.
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
191
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31/10/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Type of government
Semi-presidential republic
Human Development Index
0.906
(35/193)
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2023
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.8
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2023
/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
The prison admini…
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(Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwosci)
Total number of incarcerated people
69,558
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31/10/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
5.8
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31/01/2024
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2024, table 31.
Prison density
82.4 %
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31/10/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
171
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2024
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, in 2008
Number and percentage of incarcerated w…
5.4 %
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31/07/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Number and percentage of incarcerated c…
1.4 %
976 boys and 55 g…
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31/01/2024
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2024, table 7a.
Number and percentage of people awaitin…
11.2 %
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31/10/2025
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
The death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1997
The last executio…

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