The source does not provide a release date. The date given is the date of data access.
Figures for 2014 and earlier years had been published by the Bureau of Prison Administration under the Ministry of Justice of China. As to our knowledge, this source has not published more recent data.
The figure for 2018 has been published by the World Prison Brief.
This statistic shows the official number of prisons in China until ****, as well as the estimated number of prisons in ****. In ****, there was an estimated number of *** prisons in China.
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ICPR (World Prison Brief). (July 17, 2023). Estimated number of prisons in China between May 2008 and July 2018 [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from /statistics/251240/number-of-prisons-in-china/
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