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Prison population

Administrative records Outcome indicator
Prison population Spain — Estado: 17 values 0.0020,00040,00060,00080,000 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 Spain — Estado · 2008: 73,558 Spain — Estado · 2009: 76,079 Spain — Estado · 2010: 73,929 Spain — Estado · 2011: 70,472 Spain — Estado · 2012: 68,597 Spain — Estado · 2013: 66,765 Spain — Estado · 2014: 65,017 Spain — Estado · 2015: 61,614 Spain — Estado · 2016: 59,589 Spain — Estado · 2017: 58,812 Spain — Estado · 2018: 58,883 Spain — Estado · 2019: 58,517 Spain — Estado · 2020: 55,180 Spain — Estado · 2021: 55,097 Spain — Estado · 2022: 55,751 Spain — Estado · 2023: 56,698 Spain — Estado · 2024: 59,226
Spain — Estado people

Source: Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice

How do we know? As the publisher reported it; the platform does not adjust figures.

59226.0 people for Spain — Estado in 2024, published by European Commission (Eurostat).

Source

Published by
European Commission (Eurostat)
Source
Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Licence
CC BY 4.0 ↗
Attribution
Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Retrieved
9 November 2026

Version

Value
59226.0 people
Period
2024
Status
Observed
Kind of data
Administrative records
Country
Spain — Estado

How good is this figure?

Separate dimensions, not one score — an excellent source can still be incomparable across countries.

Source
National primary source
Definition
Definition from the publisher
Comparability
Limited international comparability
Status
Observed
Evidence
Administrative records

Latest value in every country that publishes one

CSV JSON
Country Value Year Status
Albania 4,741 2024 Observed
Austria 9,657 2024 Observed
Belgium 12,581 2024 Observed
Bosnia and Herzegovina 4,083 2024 Observed
Bulgaria 5,440 2024 Observed
Croatia 4,965 2024 Observed
Cyprus 965.0 2024 Observed
Czechia 19,430 2024 Observed
Denmark 4,167 2024 Observed
Estonia 1,637 2024 Observed
Finland 3,187 2024 Observed
France 80,669 2024 Observed
Germany — Bund 58,798 2024 Observed
Greece 11,484 2024 Observed
Hungary 18,464 2024 Observed
Iceland 136.0 2024 Observed
Ireland 5,121 2024 Observed
Italy 63,524 2024 Observed
Latvia 3,505 2024 Observed
Liechtenstein 77.0 2024 Observed
Lithuania 4,480 2024 Observed
Luxembourg 628.0 2024 Observed
Malta 697.0 2024 Observed
Montenegro 1,191 2024 Observed
Netherlands 11,948 2024 Observed
North Macedonia 2,241 2024 Observed
Norway 3,359 2024 Observed
Poland 69,850 2024 Observed
Portugal 12,507 2024 Observed
Romania 24,606 2024 Observed
Serbia 11,430 2024 Observed
Slovakia 8,169 2024 Observed
Slovenia 1,806 2024 Observed
Spain — Estado 59,226 2024 Observed
Sweden 11,235 2024 Observed
Switzerland — Confederation 6,722 2024 Observed
Türkiye 383,663 2024 Observed

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