Asia · Southern Asia

Pakistan

High confidence

Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 1 Nov 2024

Fresh · 1mo ago

Significant pre-trial backlog. Death-row population is one of the largest globally.

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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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

108,643

Year: 2024

Rate per 100,000

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

163.1%

Severely overcrowded

Pre-trial / remand

73.4%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

1.5%

Foreign nationals

1.1%

Conditions risk — across 120 facilities

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

27/100

national average

65 moderate 6 low 49 unknown

retentionist on capital punishment. Last known execution: 2024.Methods: hangingICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

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

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

1 documented human-rights cases →

How Pakistan compares

vs Asia (16) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 45 · region: 172 · global: 214

Occupancy ratethis: 163% · region: 147% · global: 125%

Pre-trial sharethis: 73% · region: 30% · 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: 78,938+37.6% over 24y2024: 108,643

Source: World Prison Brief / unodc

Prisons in Pakistan

Browse all 120 →

120 facilities in our database — showing the first 24.

Borstal Institution & Juvenile Jail Lahore

Pakistan · Lahore

Type

Borstal Institution

Capacity

300

Held

380

Overcrowded (127%)Low

Borstal Institution Faisalabad

Pakistan · Faisalabad

Type

Borstal Institution

Capacity

200

Held

240

Overcrowded (120%)Low

Borstal Institution Hyderabad

Pakistan · Hyderabad

Type

Borstal Institution

Capacity

150

Held

180

Overcrowded (120%)Low

Borstal Institution Multan

Pakistan · Multan

Type

Borstal Institution

Capacity

180

Held

215

Overcrowded (119%)Low

Borstal Institution Peshawar

Pakistan · Peshawar

Type

Borstal Institution

Capacity

200

Held

240

Overcrowded (120%)Low

Camp Jail Kot Lakhpat

Pakistan · Lahore

Type

Camp Jail

Capacity

1,200

Held

2,900

Overcrowded (242%)Moderate

Centeral Jail

Pakistan

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

Central Jail

Pakistan

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

Central Jail

Pakistan

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

Central Jail Bahawalpur

Pakistan · Bahawalpur

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

1,500

Held

3,700

Overcrowded (247%)Moderate

Central Jail D.G. Khan

Pakistan · Dera Ghazi Khan

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

900

Held

2,200

Overcrowded (244%)Moderate

Central Jail Faisalabad

Pakistan · Faisalabad

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

2,200

Held

5,800

Overcrowded (264%)

Central Jail Gilgit

Pakistan · Gilgit

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

250

Held

560

Overcrowded (224%)Moderate

Central Jail Gujranwala

Pakistan · Gujranwala

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

1,650

Held

4,100

Overcrowded (248%)

Central Jail Haripur

Pakistan · Haripur

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

2,000

Held

5,500

Overcrowded (275%)Moderate

Central Jail Hyderabad

Pakistan · Hyderabad

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

1,500

Held

3,400

Overcrowded (227%)

Central Jail Karachi

Pakistan · Karachi

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

5,000

Held

8,200

Overcrowded (164%)

Central jail Kohat

Pakistan

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

Central Jail Lahore

Pakistan · Lahore

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

4,028

Held

9,621

Overcrowded (239%)

Central Jail Mardan

Pakistan · Mardan

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

600

Held

2,100

Overcrowded (350%)Moderate

Central Jail Mianwali

Pakistan

Type

—

Capacity

—

Held

—

Central Jail Mirpur

Pakistan · Mirpur

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

350

Held

620

Overcrowded (177%)Moderate

Central Jail Multan

Pakistan · Multan

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

2,100

Held

5,200

Overcrowded (248%)Moderate

Central Jail Peshawar

Pakistan · Peshawar

Type

Central Jail

Capacity

1,200

Held

4,800

Overcrowded (400%)Moderate

See all 120 prisons in Pakistan →

Data completeness

100%

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

National population: 239,420,0002024
Source-verified: 20 May 2026
Source links: 1 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

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

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