This report provides updated global and national data on women’s incarceration, showing that over 740,000 women and girls are imprisoned worldwide –  a 60% increase since 2000. The United States accounts for nearly 200,000 of these individuals, representing one-quarter of the global total despite housing only 4% of the world’s female population. With an incarceration rate of 112 per 100,000, the U.S. ranks second only to El Salvador. The report examines State-by-State comparisons and highlights how laws criminalizing poverty, reproductive rights, and drug use disproportionately affect women and girls, driving continued growth in incarceration.