How many people are imprisoned in Myanmar?

Myanmar's prison population is 100,324 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 Myanmar?

Myanmar's incarceration rate is approximately 183 people per 100,000 population.

How many prisons are there in Myanmar?

World Prisons indexes 68 individual facilities in Myanmar. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Q: Does Myanmar have the death penalty?

Myanmar's death-penalty status is: retentionist. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

High confidence

Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 1 May 2020

Fresh · 2mo ago

Population swelled since the February 2021 military coup. AAPP tracks ~20,000 political prisoners as of mid-2024.

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Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date.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

100,324

Year: 2020

Rate per 100,000

183

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

111.5%

Above design capacity

Pre-trial / remand

15.1%

Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

12.3%

Foreign nationals

0.7%

Figures from official sources · verified 20 May 2026 · methodology

Conditions risk — across 68 facilities

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

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national average

68 unknown

retentionist on capital punishment. Last known execution: 2022.Methods: hangingICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

2 documented human-rights cases →

How Myanmar compares

vs Asia (16) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 183 · region: 162 · global: 214

Occupancy ratethis: 112% · region: 151% · global: 125%

Pre-trial sharethis: 15% · region: 34% · 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

1993: 53,195+88.6% over 27y2020: 100,324

Source: World Prison Brief / unodc

What we know — and don't

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

What we don't know

Official figures effectively unavailable since 2021. Civil-society estimates only.

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Held

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See all 68 prisons in Myanmar →

Data completeness

100%

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

National population: 54,750,0002020
Source-verified: 20 May 2026
Source links: 3 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

Primary reference
World Prison Brief (ICPS, Birkbeck) — Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research
Amnesty International â country pages — Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch â World Report — Human Rights Watch
See /data-sources for our methodology.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: MMR

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Myanmar — prison statistics. Retrieved July 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/myanmar

Chicago

"Myanmar — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed July 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/myanmar.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-myanmar,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Myanmar — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/myanmar},
  urldate = {2026-07-20}
}