Current tobacco use among adults in Asia

45 countries in Asia, 2024. Unit: % of adults. World ranking →

First in the ranking
5.4 %
Turkmenistan
Median country
20.7 %
half above, half below
World
20.3 %
World Bank aggregate
Range
5.4 to 48.8
Turkmenistan - Timor-Leste

How to read it

Across 45 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Timor-Leste (48.8 %) and the lowest in Turkmenistan (5.4 %).

The median country is at 20.7 %: half are above, half below.

The percentage of the population ages 15 years and over who currently use any tobacco product (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco) on a daily or non-daily basis. Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, waterpipes (hookah, shisha), bidis, kretek, heated tobacco products, and all forms of smokeless (oral and nasal) tobacco. Tobacco products exclude e-cigarettes (which do not contain tobacco)…

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Source: Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho · via World Bank WDI (SH.PRV.SMOK) · licence

Tobacco use over time

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Turkmenistan5.4
2Oman8.5
3United Arab Emirates9.0
4Iran11.9
5Qatar12.5
6Singapore13.8
7Brunei14.5
8Saudi Arabia14.7
9Bahrain15.4
10North Korea15.6
11Uzbekistan16.3
12Malaysia16.9
13Japan17.5
14Thailand17.8
15Pakistan17.9
16Cambodia18.6
17South Korea18.6
18Azerbaijan18.7
19Kuwait19.4
20Bhutan19.6
21Philippines19.9
22Iraq20.1
23Sri Lanka20.7
24Kazakhstan21.1
25Vietnam21.1
26Israel21.2
27Afghanistan22.1
28Kyrgyzstan22.2
29India22.6
30China22.8
31Laos25.4
32Maldives25.5
33Armenia26.2
34Nepal28.7
35Mongolia29.5
36Indonesia31.0
37Türkiye31.1
38Bangladesh32.0
39Cyprus32.5
40Georgia33.0
41Jordan34.1
42Palestine35.5
43Myanmar43.4
44Lebanon46.9
45Timor-Leste48.8
World Bank, WDI · SH.PRV.SMOK · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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