How many people are imprisoned in Finland?

Finland's prison population is 3,406 people. This figure aggregates all forms of detention counted by the source: sentenced prisoners, pre-trial detainees, and administrative detentions.

What is the incarceration rate in Finland?

Finland's incarceration rate is approximately 60 people per 100,000 population.

How many prisons are there in Finland?

World Prisons indexes 69 individual facilities in Finland. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

All countries

Europe · Northern Europe

Finland

Q: Does Finland have the death penalty?

Finland's death-penalty status is: abolitionist. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

High confidence

Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 31 Dec 2024

Aging · 5mo ago

One of the world's lowest incarceration rates. Open prisons hold ~30% of sentenced population.

Compare Finland World Prison Brief page

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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

3,406

Year: 2024

Rate per 100,000

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

102.8%

Above design capacity

Pre-trial / remand

25.7%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

Foreign nationals

20.5%

Figures from official sources · verified 20 May 2026 · methodology

Conditions risk — across 69 facilities

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

—

national average

69 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 1972. Last known execution: 1944.ICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

16 documented human-rights cases →

How Finland compares

vs Europe (16) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 60 · region: 111 · global: 214

Occupancy ratethis: 103% · region: 96% · global: 125%

Pre-trial sharethis: 26% · region: 28% · 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: 2,855+15.0% over 25y2025: 3,282

Source: World Prison Brief / unodc / eurostat / Council of Europe SPACE I

Health & mortality

Custodial mortality + prison-health indicators aggregated from national statistics offices, UCLA custodial mortality dataset, and Marshall Project COVID tracking.

Indicators (latest by source)

Mortality Rate
154.14per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped

Held

—

Kerava prison

Finland · Kerava

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

Konnunsuo Prison

Finland

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

100%

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

National population: 5,640,0002024
Source-verified: 20 May 2026
Source links: 2 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

Primary reference
World Prison Brief (ICPS, Birkbeck) — Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research
Council of Europe â SPACE statistics — Council of Europe
See /data-sources for our methodology.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: FIN

Cite this page

Under CC-BY-4.0. Include the URL and access date; the site is a living reference and entries can change.

APA

World Prisons. (2026). Finland — prison statistics. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/finland

Chicago

"Finland — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/finland.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-finland,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Finland — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/finland},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}