Apr 30, 2015 ... “Though only five percent of the world's population lives in the United States, it is  home to 25 percent of the world's prison population.
Jul 7, 2015 ... American criminal justice trends are internationally unique, and this talking ... “It's  a stark fact that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's  population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the world's total prison population.  .... or in-between in politics, from The Post's famous fact-checking team.
While the United States has only 5 percent of the world's population, it has nearly  25 percent of its prisoners — about 2.2 million people. Over the past four ...
The world's prison capitalSince 1970 our incarcerated population has increased  by 700 percent to 2.3 million people in jail and prison today, far outpacing ...
Apr 23, 2008 ... The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has  almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Indeed, the United ...
The U.S. has "5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s known prison population."