Across 166 countries worldwide, the highest value is in Timor-Leste (48.8 %) and the lowest in Nigeria (3.1 %).
The median country is at 19.0 %: half are above, half below.
For the world as a whole, the value fell from 34.8 % in 2000 to 20.3 % in 2024.
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)…
Source: Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho · via World Bank WDI (SH.PRV.SMOK) ·
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