World Prison Population and Incarceration Rates Map

View LocationView Map

 click for
Fullsize

46 -31 3 satellite

Nearest Map »  Fullsize Share Map

5100 × 3300•532 KB•PNG

Technically this is a "bi-variate cartogram". It is a combination of a cartogram (country sizes scaled to their total -absolute- prison population) and a choropleth map (shading according to their -relative- incarceration rates, here per 100,000 population). A very sad map to be honest. These are not numbers but lost human lives. Although there my be many factors at play, it is clear that imprisonment is a culture. The highest levels of incarceration, intentionally, were placed at the bottom of the legend.

Created 2010 by Jan van der Weijst

Maps.at.Work added
May 15, 2011

Rating

no ratings

Tweet

See an error? Report it.

Keywords

statistics, prisons, incarceration, justice, human, rights

Add keywords

Examples: park "national park" or hiking, trails

0 Comments

New comments have been temporarily disabled.