It is difficult to state for certain which nation has the largest rate of incarceration in the world due to a lack of comprehensive data. However, the United States generally has higher rates of incarceration than other developed nations.
Germany has the largest GDP of any European nation. Luxembourg has the largest GDP per capita rate of any European nation, and any country of the world.
Moyers and Company - 2012 Incarceration Nation 2-40 was released on: USA: 22 December 2013
Moyers and Company - 2012 Incarceration Nation 2-50 was released on: USA: 22 December 2013
the chances of going to prison over an entire lifetime.
violent crime rate
The country with the largest per capita prison population is the United States with over 700 prisoners per 100,000 population. Interestingly Canada which is almost identical to the population demographics has only 1/7th of this rate.
Brazil is not the largest; Brazil is the 5th largest nation in terms of population and area.
By area, the largest Caribbean nation is Cuba.
Mongolia is the largest nation in Central Asia.
The Indochinese nation of Burma is the largest in land area.
Russia is the largest nation in the world. It is in northern Europe and Asia
area/ land size = Sudan population = Nigeria