Current tobacco use among adults in North America

14 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: % of adults. World ranking →

First in the ranking
4.8 %
Panama
Median country
11.4 %
half above, half below
World
20.3 %
World Bank aggregate
Range
4.8 to 17.3
Panama - Bahamas

How to read it

Across 14 countries in North America, the highest value is in Bahamas (17.3 %) and the lowest in Panama (4.8 %).

The median country is at 11.4 %: 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
1Panama4.8
2Costa Rica7.9
3Haiti8.0
4El Salvador8.2
5Belize8.5
6Canada11.2
7Guatemala11.2
8Jamaica11.5
9Honduras12.1
10Saint Lucia13.9
11Mexico15.7
12United States15.8
13Cuba16.1
14Bahamas17.3
World Bank, WDI · SH.PRV.SMOK · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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