Was curious what it would look like if China had the same incarceration rate as the US. Did the math and they'd have 70% of the world's prison population right now.
The math
US incarceration rate is 541 per 100k people
If China had the same incarceration rate, 1419321278×0.00541=7676700 prisoners
Global prison population is 11 million
(7676700/11)*100=70%
In reality, it's at 16%; less than the US despite a 5x higher population.
1970 was during the cultural revolution. In that year, the world population was 3.68 billion, and the population if China was just shy of 830 million - China had 22% of the world's population, so if they held (only) 20% of the world's prisoners, they'd have a lower than average incarceration rate.
The same is not true for the US today, we have less than 5% of the world's population today.
ITT: Liberals who assume that evil Chinese MUST be lying about their statistics but the above board whites of the USA are not.
Woah watch out. You might offend Red Scare propagandists
Instead of being in prison, they were dying out off hunger and concentration camps... There are idiots supporting US, and hypocrites supporting china...
Your brain on for-profit prisons:
13th is a really good documentary. Indentured Survitude
Wow China really dropped the ball on this one.
More creepy US prison statistics.