Retentionist countries and executions 2008

Population	Countries that executed in 2008	Number of known executions	Death Sentences in 2008
	Asia
28,150,000	Afghanistan	17+	131
791,000	Bahrain	1	–
162,221,000	Bangladesh	5	185+
1,333,140,000	China	1,718+	7003+
229,965,000	Indonesia	10	10+
74,196,000	Iran	346+	+
30,747,000	Iraq	34+	285+
127,590,000	Japan	15	27
27,468,000	Malaysia	1+	22+
2,671,000	Mongolia	1+	–
24,051,706	North Korea	15+	+
167,514,500	Pakistan	36+	236+
25,721,000	Saudi Arabia	102+	+
4,839,400	Singapore	1+	5
21,906,000	Syria	1+	7+
4,599,000	United Arab Emirates	1+	–
85,789,573	Vietnam	19+	59+
23,580,000	Yemen	13+	+
TOTAL – 2,374,940,179		TOTAL – 2,336	TOTAL – 7,970
	Africa
1,950,000	Botswana	1	4
77,226,737	Egypt	2+	87+
6,420,000	Libya	8	+
9,133,000	Somalia	3+	–
42,272,000	Sudan	1+	60
TOTAL -137,001,737		TOTAL – 15	TOTAL – 151
	Americas
52,000	St Kitts & Nevis	1	1+
307,465,000	United States of America	37	111+
TOTAL – 307,517,000		TOTAL – 38	TOTAL – 112
	Europe
TOTAL –  9,671,900	Belarus	TOTAL – 4	TOTAL – 1
Total of Collective Population 2,829,130,816	TOTAL – 26 Countries 2,393 executions 8,234 death sentences

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