Dataset Overview

This dataset provides year and gender wise number of Indian prisoners in Indian prisons further classified by prison inmate type (convict, detenue, undertrial, or other).

Organisation

National Crime Record Bureau

Sectors

Home Affairs and Enforcement

Update Frequency

Yearly

Granularity

Year, Gender

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	70	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Transgender	76	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Female	14820	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Detenues	Male	3821	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Total	384743	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Undertrials	Male	369847	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Female	5253	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Male	128774	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Total	134037	value in absolute number
2023	All India	Convicts	Transgender	10	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	126	126	Float64	140
unit	1	1	String	140
note	1	1	String	0

Citation

National Crime Record Bureau. NCRB - Indian Prisoner Statistics: Year and Gender wise Different Types of Indian Prison Inmates [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/22998

NCRB - Indian Prisoner Statistics: Year and Gender wise Different Types of Indian Prison Inmates