Armenia is ranked the 82nd on the rating of Prison Policy Initiative - with 130 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
According to the organization's survey, in the post-Soviet space Tajikistan demonstrates the best result - 121 prisoners. The following countries rank next: Uzbekistan - 150, Kyrgyzstan - 167, Ukraine - 173, Kazakhstan - 221, Estonia - 221, Moldova - 222, Latvia - 224, Azerbaijan - 236, Lithuania - 254, Georgia - 262, Belarus - 306, Russia - 453, and Turkmenistan - 583.
Armenia's neighbors Turkey and Iran are ranked the 30th and the 17th with 238 and 287 prisoners per 100,000 residents, respectively.
The United States tops the list with 693 prisoners per 100,000 residents. Salvador holds the second position with 547 prisoners and Turkmenistan is the third on the list.
The Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) is a criminal justice oriented American public policy think tank based in Easthampton, Massachusetts. It is a non-profit organization and it is a "leading public critic" of the United States Census Bureau's practice of counting prisoners as residents of the towns where they are incarcerated,
The survey covers more than 200 countries and all the US states.