Prison population in EU countries, per 100,000 population and per 1,000 recorded crimes, 2007
Country	Prison Population		Prisoners per 100,000 pop		Estimated country population (thousands)		Recorded crimes per 100,000 population		Total recorded crimes		Prisoners per 1,000 recorded crimes
EU (27) Average			121.8								20.7
England and Wales	79,730		147.5		54,072		9,156		4,950,671		16.1
Northern Ireland	1,484		84.4		1,759		6,166		108,468		13.7
Scotland	7,376		143.4		5,144		7,494		385,509		19.1
Austria	8,887		107.1		8,299		7,160		594,240		15.0
Belgium	9,950		94.0		10,585		9,471		1,002,552		9.9
Denmark	3,646		66.9		5,447		8,175		445,271		8.2
Finland	3,370		63.9		5,277		6,515		343,820		9.8
France	60,403		95.3		63,392		5,662		3,589,293		16.8
Germany	73,319		89.1		82,315		7,635		6,284,661		11.7
Greece	10,280		92.0		11,172		3,790		423,422		24.3
Ireland (Eire)	3,053		70.8		4,313		2,392		103,178		29.6
Italy	48,693		82.3		59,131		4,960		2,933,146		16.6
Luxembourg	666		139.9		476		5,935		28,252		23.6
Netherlands	14,450		88.3		16,358		7,425		1,214,503		11.9
Portugal	11,587		109.3		10,599		3,776		400,222		29.0
Spain	67,100		150.9		44,477		5,193		2,309,859		29.0
Sweden	6,740		74.0		9,113		14,335		1,306,324		5.2
Bulgaria	10,792		140.5		7,679		1,754		134,685		80.1
Czech Republic	19,110		185.8		10,287		3,474		357,391		53.5
Cyprus	671		86.1		779		970		7,557		88.8
Estonia	3,466		258.3		1,342		3,754		50,375		68.8
Latvia	6,548		287.1		2,281		2,438		55,620		117.7
Lithuania	7,770		229.5		3,385		2,009		67,990		114.3
Hungary	14,743		146.5		10,066		4,241		426,914		34.5
Malta	382		93.6		408		3,678		15,005		25.5
Poland	90,199		236.6		38,125		3,024		1,152,993		78.2
Romania	29,390		136.3		21,565		1,305		281,457		104.4
Slovenia	1,336		66.5		2,010		4,388		88,197		15.1
Slovakia	8,235		152.7		5,394		2,054		110,802		74.3
Source: Eurostat 'Crime and Criminal Justice'
Table 1 Crimes recorded by the police:
Total Crime http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/crime/documents/total_crime.pdf
Table 10 Prison Population:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/crime/documents/prison.pdf
Notes: Prison population for Greece is for 2006; and all figures for Ireland are for 2006.
Figures for Spain radically revised in 2006. 2007 figures not consistent with Civitas table for 2003.