Security/Prison occupancy · Italy
Prison occupancy in Italy: 122.4 prisoners per 100 places in 2024
Reference period: 2024 · Published: 29 Apr 2026
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122.4prisoners per 100 places
+3.3 points on 2023.
Prison occupancy · prisoners per 100 places
Values as published by the source, at current prices.
The vertical axis does not start at zero.
Data table
| Status | Crises | Governments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 122.4 | final | Meloni government | |
| 2023 | 119.1 | final | Meloni government | |
| 2022 | 111.0 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government, Meloni government |
| 2021 | 107.7 | final | COVID-19 pandemic | Conte II government, Draghi government |
| 2020 | 106.8 | final | COVID-19 pandemic | Conte II government |
| 2019 | 121.4 | final | Conte I government, Conte II government | |
| 2018 | 119.5 | final | Gentiloni government, Conte I government | |
| 2017 | 115.6 | final | Gentiloni government | |
| 2016 | 110.2 | final | Renzi government, Gentiloni government | |
| 2015 | 106.3 | final | Renzi government | |
| 2014 | 108.9 | final | Letta government, Renzi government | |
| 2013 | 131.5 | final | Monti government, Letta government | |
| 2012 | 140.2 | final | Sovereign debt crisis | Monti government |
| 2011 | 147.1 | final | Sovereign debt crisis | Berlusconi IV government, Monti government |
| 2010 | 151.3 | final | Berlusconi IV government | |
| 2009 | 146.3 | final | Financial crisis | Berlusconi IV government |
| 2008 | 135.2 | final | Financial crisis | Prodi II government, Berlusconi IV government |
EU comparison · Nominal (prisoners per 100 places)
Same lens as the main chart: changing it here changes it above too. Context layers are those of the main country. Each country is read in the release published on the same date. No data published up to this date for: EU-27.
Data table
| 2024 | 122.4 | 81.6 | 129.3 | 80.1 |
| 2023 | 119.1 | 81.8 | 122.9 | 73.8 |
| 2022 | 111.0 | 79.1 | 119.0 | 75.0 |
| 2021 | 107.7 | 79.4 | 114.3 | 73.9 |
| 2020 | 106.8 | 82.4 | 103.2 | 73.5 |
| 2019 | 121.4 | 86.5 | 115.9 | 91.1 |
| 2018 | 119.5 | 88.4 | 116.5 | 91.7 |
| 2017 | 115.6 | 89.5 | 115.4 | 91.7 |
| 2016 | 110.2 | 87.3 | 116.6 | 92.9 |
| 2015 | 106.3 | 85.3 | 113.9 | – |
| 2014 | 108.9 | 83.4 | 114.6 | – |
| 2013 | 131.5 | – | 116.6 | – |
| 2012 | 140.2 | – | 116.8 | – |
| 2011 | 147.1 | – | 113.2 | – |
| 2010 | 151.3 | – | 107.4 | – |
| 2009 | 146.3 | – | 110.9 | – |
| 2008 | 135.2 | – | 119.7 | – |
What it measures
Prisoners per 100 places of official capacity, computed from the values published by Eurostat. Version published by Eurostat on 29 April 2026.
Methodology
Prisoners per 100 places of official capacity, computed by Data Super Partes dividing the two values Eurostat publishes for the same year. Above 100 there are more prisoners than places. Official capacity is declared by each prison administration with national criteria, which differ by country, and does not account for unusable places.
Source
Eurostat · Prison capacity and number of persons held
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Context layers and attribution rules
Crises
Conventional whole-year periods chosen by the editors; each period's source documents the event. They apply to every EU country. They show temporal coincidences, not causes.
4 periods with source
- Financial crisis1 Jan 2008 – 31 Dec 2009
- Sovereign debt crisis1 Jan 2011 – 31 Dec 2012
- COVID-19 pandemic1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2021
- Energy crisis1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022
Governments
Each government covers the period from its swearing-in to the end date given by governo.it. An annual figure is not attributed to a single government: the bands show who was in office during the period, as a temporal coincidence. For public spending, the budget law for year N is passed by the government in office in year N−1.
14 periods with source
- D'Alema II government22 Dec 1999 – 25 Apr 2000
- Amato II government25 Apr 2000 – 11 Jun 2001
- Berlusconi II government11 Jun 2001 – 23 Apr 2005
- Berlusconi III government23 Apr 2005 – 17 May 2006
- Prodi II government17 May 2006 – 6 May 2008
- Berlusconi IV government8 May 2008 – 16 Nov 2011
- Monti government16 Nov 2011 – 27 Apr 2013
- Letta government28 Apr 2013 – 21 Feb 2014
- Renzi government22 Feb 2014 – 12 Dec 2016
- Gentiloni government12 Dec 2016 – 1 Jun 2018
- Conte I government1 Jun 2018 – 4 Sept 2019
- Conte II government5 Sept 2019 – 13 Feb 2021
- Draghi government13 Feb 2021 – 22 Oct 2022
- Meloni government22 Oct 2022 – in office
Release history
Every release stays published as it was. Differences are computed against the release published before it.