Death penalty statistics, country by country

The latest capital punishment statistics are out. Find out who uses the death penalty today.

 

Despite fewer countries executing prisoners than ever before, the death penalty is still alive and well around the world.

 

The latest statistics show that China executes thousands, said Amnesty International in its report on the death penalty worldwide. Amnesty does not provide a precise figure of executions in China as Beijing keeps such figures secret.

 

China, together with Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the US (the only G7 country to still execute people) carried out the most executions last year. Excluding China, the report says:

 

"At least 676 executions were known to have been carried out worldwide in 2011, an increase on the 2010 figure of at least 527 executions worldwide. The increase is largely due to a significant increase in judicial killings in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia"

 

Meanwhile, 139 countries have the death penalty - a record number. Which means the number of countries executing prisoners is at a record low (see above).

 

Setting China aside, Amnesty said at least 676 executions were carried out last year(2011). Half of those took place in Iran (276). North Korea executed 30, Yemen 29 and the US 43. The minimum number of executions was down from at least 714 in 2009.

 

Methods of execution included beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and various kinds of shooting (by firing squad, and at close range to the heart or the head). No stonings were recorded in 2011, but public executions were known to have been carried out in Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.

 

Data summary

Death penalty around the world . Download this data
Country	Exe- cutions, 2010	Death sent- ences 2010	Exe-cutions, 2011	Death sent- ences 2011	TOTAL EXE- CUTED, 2007-2011	TOTAL SENT- ENCED TO DEATH, 2007-2011
SOURCE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/death-penalty-countries-world#data
AFGHANISTAN		100	2		34	364
ALGERIA		130		51	0	752
BAHAMAS		5			0	8
BAHRAIN	1	1		5	2	8
BANGLADESH	9	32	5	49	28	423
BARBADOS		1			0	1
BELARUS	2	3	2	2	9	12
BENIN		1			0	6
BOTSWANA	1			1	4	7
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM		0		3	0	3
BURKINA FASO		1			0	8
BURUNDI					0	1
CAMEROON		0			0	0
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC		14			0	14
CHAD		1			0	13
CHINA	000s	000s	000s	000s	000s	000s
CONGO (Democratic Republic)		0			0	74
EGYPT	4	185	1	123	12	704
EQUATORIAL GUINEA	4	4			7	4
ETHIOPIA		5			1	55
GAMBIA		13		13	0	31
GHANA		17		4	0	31
GUATEMALA		1			0	1
GUINEA				16	0	19
GUYANA		1		3	0	7
INDIA		105		110	0	435
INDONESIA		7		6	11	35
IRAN	252	0	360	156	1663	156
IRAQ	1	279	68	291	256	1420
JAMAICA		4			0	7
JAPAN	2	14		10	33	108
JORDAN		9		15	0	67
KENYA		5		11	0	16
KOREA (NORTH)	60	0	30		105	0
KOREA (SOUTH)		4			0	13
KUWAIT		3		17	1	31
LAOS		4			0	6
LEBANON		12		8	0	24
LIBERIA		11		1	0	15
LIBYA	18	0			39	0
MADAGASCAR		2			0	14
MALAWI		2		2	0	4
MALAYSIA	1	114		108	2	324
MALDIVES		1			0	1
MALI		14		2	0	41
MAURITANIA		16		8	0	33
MONGOLIA					1	45
MOROCCO		4		5	0	27
MYANMAR		2		33	0	37
NIGER					0	1
NIGERIA		151		72	0	341
OMAN					4	7
PAKISTAN		365		313	171	1497
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY	5	11	3	5	8	33
PAPUA NEW GUINEA				5	0	8
QATAR				3	0	6
SAINT KITTS & NEVIS					1	1
SAINT VINCENT AND & THE GRENADINES					0	1
SAINT LUCIA				1	0	1
SAUDI ARABIA	27	34	82	9	423	54
SIERRA LEONE		1		2	0	7
SINGAPORE		8		5	4	26
SOMALIA	8	8	10	37	23	57
SRI LANKA		0			0	120
SUDAN	6	10	7	13	30	166
SUDAN (SOUTH)			5	1	5	1
SYRIA	17	10			33	34
TAIWAN	4	9	5	16	9	45
TANZANIA		5			0	5
THAILAND		7		40	2	56
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO		0		2	0	12
TUNISIA		22			0	27
UGANDA		5		5	0	134
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES		28	1	31	2	64
UNITED STATES	46	110	43	78	220	504
VIETNAM		34	5	23	58	258
YEMEN	53	27	41	29	152	109
ZAMBIA		35		48	0	91
ZIMBABWE		8		1	0	17
TOTALS (exc China & others)	521	2015	670	1792	5541	17951