How many people are imprisoned in Ukraine?

Ukraine's prison population is 44,024 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 Ukraine?

Ukraine's incarceration rate is approximately 116 people per 100,000 population.

How many prisons are there in Ukraine?

World Prisons indexes 404 individual facilities in Ukraine. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Q: Does Ukraine have the death penalty?

Ukraine'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 2023

Aging · 5mo ago

Significant population decline since 2014 (loss of facilities in Crimea + occupied Donbas).

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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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

44,024

Year: 2023

Rate per 100,000

116

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

53.9%

At or under capacity

Pre-trial / remand

36.5%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

5.6%

Foreign nationals

1.9%

Figures from official sources · verified 20 May 2026 · methodology

Conditions risk — across 404 facilities

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

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national average

404 unknown

abolitionist on capital punishment since 2000. Last known execution: 1997.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.

1,095 documented human-rights cases →

Historical detention sites

Ukraine — wartime detention catalogue (29)

How Ukraine compares

vs Europe (16) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 116 · region: 107 · global: 214

Occupancy ratethis: 54% · region: 99% · global: 125%

Pre-trial sharethis: 37% · region: 27% · 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: 218,800-83.0% over 25y2025: 37,119

Source: World Prison Brief / unodc / 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)

Hiv Prevalence
3,901count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Hcv Prevalence
2,866count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Tb Incidence
978count
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mortality Rate
96.34per_100k_pa
2020 · source: who-hiped
Mental Health
6,582count
2020 · source: who-hiped

What we know — and don't

Transparency about the boundaries of this data. Click sources where linked.

What we don't know

Conditions in occupied territories not within national MoJ reporting.

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Held

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See all 404 prisons in Ukraine →

Data completeness

100%

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

National population: 37,860,0002023
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: UKR

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APA

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX

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