World Prisons
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Ethiopia

High confidence
Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 1 Mar 2020
Fresh · 9d ago

No consolidated national release since 2020. Figure includes federal + nine regional administrations.

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.

Prison population

110,000

Year: 2020

Rate per 100,000

99

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

At or under capacity

Pre-trial / remand

14.9%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

4.2%

Foreign nationals

Conditions risk — across 10 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

national average

How Ethiopia compares

vs Africa (6) & global averages
Rate per 100,000this: 99 · region: 210 · global: 214
Pre-trial sharethis: 15% · region: 38% · global: 32%

The vertical ticks mark the global (grey) and regional (amber) means. Bars are clipped at the high end for readability.

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year
2000: 55,209+106.0% over 14y2014: 113,727

What we know — and don't

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What we don't know

  • Capacity, occupancy, pre-trial share not published.

Prisons in Ethiopia

Browse all 10

10 facilities in our database. Ethiopia has many more facilities than listed here; we're expanding the database with verified entries.

Data completeness

80%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

National population
111,110,0002020
Source-verified
20 May 2026
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