Luxembourg

Capital city — Luxembourg

Country population
660,809
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01/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Type of government
Constitutional Monarchy
Human Development Index
0.916
23/188
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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
705
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
106.7
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 3.
Average length of imprisonment (in mont…
3.5
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2022
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 31.
Prison density
70.9 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 16.
Total number of prison facilities
3
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2023
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
yes, since 2010
Number and percentage of incarcerated w…
5.5 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 7a.
Number and percentage of incarcerated c…
1.1 %
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31/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 6.
Number and percentage of people awaitin…
48.9 %
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01/01/2023
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 8.
The death penalty is abolished
yes, since 1979

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Safeguards

Physical integrity

Number of deaths in custody

3

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

Number of deaths attributed to suicide

1

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

Death rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

42.6

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

Suicide rate in custody (per 10,000 prisoners)

14.2

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2022

/ Council of Europe, SPACE I Report 2023, table 28.

National Preventive Mechanisms and other external control bodies

An NPM has been established

yes, since 2010