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The title of the graph is "Text box 1 chart International incarceration rates, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 34 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 800 with ticks every 100 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The vertical axis is "Country."
The title of series 1 is "Incarceration Rate."
The minimum value is 45 and it corresponds to "Iceland."
The maximum value is 707 and it corresponds to "United States."

Data table for textbox chart 1
  rate per 100,000 population
Iceland 45
Japan 50
Finland 55
Sweden 57
Denmark 67
Slovenia 74
Netherlands 75
Norway 75
Ireland 76
Germany 81
Switzerland 87
Italy 88
South Korea 98
Austria 99
France 102
Belgium 105
Canada1 118
Greece 120
Luxembourg 128
Portugal 136
Spain 141
Australia 144
England & Wales 149
Czech Republic 175
Hungary 181
Slovakia 188
New Zealand 190
Turkey 202
Poland 203
Mexico 215
Estonia 234
Israel 240
Chile 248
United States 707
1.
For jurisdictions that could not provide 2013/2014 data, an estimate was used to produce the overall incarceration rate for Canada.
Note:
Excludes young offenders 12 to 17 years of age in Quebec due to the unavailability of data for the period covered. The methodology used for counting sentenced inmates can vary among countries. These counts represent data accesssed on January 26, 2015 from the International Centre for Prison Studies (www.prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief), with the exception of data from Canada. The reference year can be different from the year indicated for Canada. For this reason, data are presented for information only and caution is recommended when making comparisons. Rates are based on the total number of incarcerated individuals (including those in remand), both youth and adults, and are calculated using the total population. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has 34 member countries whose mission it is to promote policies to improve the socio-economic well-being of people throughout the world.
Source:
Fair, H. and Walmsley, R. World Prison Brief (January 2015), International Centre for Prison Studies; Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Corrections Key Indicator Report, 2013/2014.
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