Dataset Overview

This dataset provides year, state 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, State, Gender

Time Saved

6 hours

Number of Rows

5180

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	Sikkim	Undertrials	Transgender	0	value in absolute number
2023	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Undertrials	Transgender	0	value in absolute number
2023	Chandigarh	Undertrials	Transgender	0	value in absolute number
2023	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Undertrials	Transgender	0	value in absolute number
2023	West Bengal	Undertrials	Transgender	4	value in absolute number
2023	Uttarakhand	Undertrials	Transgender	1	value in absolute number
2023	Uttar Pradesh	Undertrials	Transgender	7	value in absolute number
2023	Tripura	Undertrials	Transgender	0	value in absolute number
2023	Telangana	Undertrials	Transgender	1	value in absolute number

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
year	8	8	Int64	5180
state	39	39	String	5180
inmate_type	5	5	String	5180
gender	4	4	String	5180
value	1818	1818	Float64	5180
unit	1	1	String	5180
note	1	1	String	0

Citation

National Crime Record Bureau. NCRB - Indian Prisoner Statistics: Year, State and Gender wise Different Types of Indian Prison Inmates [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/22999

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