Luxembourg

Capital city — Luxembourg

Country population
632,275
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2020
/ World Bank
Type of government
Constitutional Monarchy
Human Development Index
0.916
23/188
i
2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
0.3
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2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of incarcerated people
594
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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
95
i
31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
8.4
i
2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 124.
Prison density
77 %
i
01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
2
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2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, since 2010
Number and percentage of incarcerated w…
5.4 %
i
31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 45.
Number and percentage of incarcerated c…
0 %
i
01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Number and percentage of people awaitin…
44.2 %
i
01/01/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
The death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1979

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Safeguards

Physical integrity

Number of deaths in custody

1

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2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

Number of deaths attributed to suicide

0

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2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

Death rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

17

i

2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

Suicide rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

0

i

2019

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 112.

National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies

An NPM has been established

yes, since 2010