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Denmark

Capital city — ‎Copenhagen

  • Country population

    5,806,081
    i
    01/2019
    / Eurostat
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    71
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Type of government

    Constitutional monarchy
  • Human Development Index

    0.93

    (11/188)

    i
    2018
    / UNDP, Human Development Report
  • Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

    1.2
    i
    2017
    / UNDP, Human Development Report
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of Justice
  • Total number of incarcerated people

    4,125
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Average length of imprisonment (in mont…

    4.2
    i
    2018
    / Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2019, p. 119
  • Prison density

    103 %
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Total number of prison facilities

    45
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • An NPM has been established

    yes, since 2007
  • Number and percentage of incarcerated w…

    4.4 %
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Number and percentage of incarcerated c…

    0.3 %
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Number and percentage of people awaitin…

    38.2 %
    i
    02/2020
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • The death penalty is abolished

    yes, since 1978
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    PdM
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National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies

An NPM has been established

yes, since 2007

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