Albania
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 21
Female: 0
Total: 21
Percentage of the total prison population0,39
Austria
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minors Male: 111
Female: 8
Total: 119
Percentage of the total prison population1.29
Belgium
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 0
Female: 0
Total: 0
Percentage of the total prison population0
Bulgaria
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 7
Female: 0
Total: 7
Percentage of the total prison population0.13
Croatia
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 17
Female: 1
Total: 18
Percentage of the total prison population0.4
Cyprus
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 32
Female: 2
Total: 34
Percentage of the total prison population3.41
Czech Republlic
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 21
Female: 2
Total: 23
Percentage of the total prison population0.12
Denmark
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 9
Female: 0
Total: 9
Percentage of the total prison population0.22
Estonia
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 1
Female: 0
Total: 1
Percentage of the total prison population0.05
Finland
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 19
Female: 0
Total: 19
Percentage of the total prison population0.62
France
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 723
Female: 23
Total: 746
Percentage of the total prison population0.98
Germany
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 785
Female: 46
Total: 831
Percentage of the total prison population1.4
Greece
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 25
Female: 1
Total: 26
Percentage of the total prison population0.25
Hugary
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minors41
Percentage of the total prison population0.2
Ireland
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 31
Female: 0
Total: 31
Percentage of the total prison population0.64
Italy
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: NA
Female: NA
Total: 317*
Percentage of the total prison population0.5*
Latvia
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 29
Female: 1
Total: 30
Percentage of the total prison population0.92
Lithuania
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 10
Female: 0
Total: 10
Percentage of the total prison population0.22
Luxembourg
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 5
Female: 0
Total: 5
Percentage of the total prison population0.82
Malta
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 3
Female: 0
Total: 3
Percentage of the total prison population0.45
Netherlands
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 0
Female: 0
Total: 0
Percentage of the total prison population0
Norway
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 7
Female: 0
Total: 7
Percentage of the total prison population0.23
Poland
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 976
Female: 55
Total: 1,031
Percentage of the total prison population1.4
Portugal
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 22
Female: 4
Total: 26
Percentage of the total prison population0.21
Romania
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 206
Female: 11
Total: 217
Percentage of the total prison population0.91
Slovakia
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 10
Female: 1
Total: 11
Percentage of the total prison population0.11
Slovenia
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 7
Female: 0
Total: 7
Percentage of the total prison population0.39
Spain
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 0
Female: 0
Total: 0
Percentage of the total prison population0
Sweden
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 81
Female: 7
Total: 88
Percentage of the total prison population0.9
Switzerland
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 59
Female: 4
Total: 63
Percentage of the total prison population0.92
Turkey
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 2,668
Female: 116
Total: 2,784
Percentage of the total prison population0.92
UK: England and Wales
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 262
Female: 0
Total: 262
Percentage of the total prison population0.5
UK: Northern Ireland
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 10
Female: 0
Total: 10
Percentage of the total prison population0.53
UK: Scotland
Number of imprisoned juveniles / minorsMale: 3
Female: 0
Total: 3
Percentage of the total prison population0.04

Source: Aebi, M. F. & Cocco, E. (2025). SPACE I – 2024 – Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics: Prison populations. Council of Europe.

Reference date for Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania & Portugal is 1st January 2024 (instead of 31st January 2024)
Reference date for Poland & UK (England and Wales) is 31st December 2023 (instead of 31st January 2024)

*Italy: percentage of imprisoned minors retrieved from World Prison Brief (reference date: 31st December 2023). The number of imprisoned minors was calculated based on the minor percentage from the World Prison Brief and the total data from the COE SPACE I 2024.