Dataset Overview

This dataset provides year and gender wise number of foreign prisoners further classified by their type: convict, detenue, undertrial and others.

Organisation

National Crime Record Bureau

Sectors

Home Affairs and Enforcement

Update Frequency

Yearly

Granularity

Year, Gender, Inmate Type

Time Saved

6 hours

Number of Rows

140

Number of Columns

Sources

Prison Statistics India, NCRB

Time Period

2016 to 2023

Units

value in absolute number

Last Updated

February, 2026

Data Preview

year	state	inmate_type	gender	value	unit
2023	All India	Detenues	Female	0	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Transgender	10	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Female	1005	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Detenues	Male	25	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Total	5167	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Male	4152	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Female	276	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Male	1211	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Total	1499	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Transgender	12	value in absolute number

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	8	8	Int64	140
state	1	1	String	140
inmate_type	5	5	String	140
gender	4	4	String	140
value	112	112	Float64	140
unit	1	1	String	140
note	1	1	String	0

Citation

National Crime Record Bureau. NCRB - Foreign Prisoner Statistics: Year, Gender and Inmate wise Number of Foreign Prisoner in Indian Jails [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/22986

NCRB - Foreign Prisoner Statistics: Year, Gender and Inmate wise Number of Foreign Prisoner in Indian Jails