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The Gambia

Capital city — Banjul

  • Country population

    2,280,102
    i
    2018
    / World Bank
  • Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…

    31
    i
    04/2019
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Type of government

    Unitary Republic
  • Human Development Index

    0.466

    (174/188)

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

    9.3
    i
    2016
    / WHO, World Health Organization
  • Name of authority in charge of the pris…

    Ministry of the Interior
  • Total number of incarcerated people

    691
    i
    04/2019
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Prison density

    173 %
    i
    11/2014
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Total number of prison facilities

    3
    i
    2014
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • An NPM has been established

    no
  • Number and percentage of incarcerated w…

    2.5 %
    i
    11/2014
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Number and percentage of incarcerated c…

    1.3 %
    i
    11/2014
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • Number and percentage of people awaitin…

    22.2 %
    i
    2014
    / World Prison Brief, ICPR
  • The death penalty is abolished

    no, but abolitionist in practice
    i
    PdM
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National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies

An NPM has been established

no

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