Daejeon (Republic of Korea), 18 August 2022 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) Centre of excellence for Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice in Asia and the Pacific (CoE) released the Regional Snapshot 3 – Prison Population in Central Asia.
Starting with the first publication of the Regional Snapshot series in Prison Population – Regional Overview, the series provides statistical information to promote understanding of imprisonment by focusing on prison-related issues such as population trends, unsentenced detainees, and prison overcrowding.
The third publication highlights the Central Asia prison population trends. In most years between 2000 to 2019, the number of detainees per 100,000 population in Central Asia was the highest among Asia-Pacific subregions. However, it does not mean that the number of prisoners has remained constant in Central Asia. Rather than this, the prison population gradually decreased, especially the males. This publication sheds light on facts based on the data.
The evidence-based policymaking presupposes concrete and accurate information from reliable sources. The data used in this publication series is collected by Member states via the United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS) and disseminated by UNODC on Data Portal for everyone to be accessible.
The CoE will always endeavor to improve data collection methods and use of crime statistics for evidence-based policymaking in the Asia-Pacific region at the same time delivering informative and interesting statistical information on crime and criminal justice.
If there is any question or feedback on the publication and about the work of CoE, please feel free to reach out us unodc-kostat.coe@un.org.
