Current tobacco use among adults in Europe

40 countries in Europe, 2024. Unit: % of adults. World ranking →

First in the ranking
9.2 %
Iceland
Median country
26.6 %
half above, half below
World
20.3 %
World Bank aggregate
Range
9.2 to 39.7
Iceland - Serbia

How to read it

Across 40 countries in Europe, the highest value is in Serbia (39.7 %) and the lowest in Iceland (9.2 %).

The median country is at 26.6 %: 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
1Iceland9.2
2United Kingdom12.8
3Norway12.9
4Denmark15.7
5Ireland18.2
6Sweden20.3
7Netherlands20.5
8Slovenia20.9
9Albania21.4
10Finland21.4
11Poland21.7
12Germany22.0
13Italy22.4
14Switzerland23.1
15Belgium23.5
16Ukraine23.7
17Austria23.8
18Luxembourg24.5
19Malta24.6
20Estonia26.1
21Russia27.0
22Spain27.6
23Czechia28.4
24Portugal28.6
25Moldova28.8
26Belarus29.2
27Slovakia29.5
28Romania29.7
29Greece30.2
30Hungary30.8
31Lithuania31.4
32France33.6
33Croatia34.4
34Latvia34.6
35Andorra35.5
36Bosnia and Herzegovina37.1
37Montenegro37.2
38Bulgaria38.7
39North Macedonia39.6
40Serbia39.7
World Bank, WDI · SH.PRV.SMOK · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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