Smoking worldwide

Statistics report about smoking worldwide

Smoking worldwide

This report presents interesting facts and figures about smoking worldwide and in select countries. This report provides an overview on tobacco use now and in the future as well information on tobacco prevention policies worldwide and further data surrounding smoking and its health risks.

Table of contents

Overview

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  • Premium Statistic Leading health problems worldwide 2024
  • Premium Statistic World consumption of cigarettes 1880-2020
  • Premium Statistic Number of cigarettes consumed worldwide from 2007 to 2025, by region with China
  • Premium Statistic Change in cigarette consumption globally 1990-2019, by WHO region
  • Basic Statistic Smokers globally that knew smoking was harmful to their health as of 2019, by country
  • Premium Statistic Relative risk of death from smoking as of 2018, by age of smokers at quitting
  • Basic Statistic Number of deaths worldwide from select risk factors in 2021

Current use

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  • Premium Statistic Percentage of tobacco smokers worldwide from 2000 to 2025, by sex
  • Premium Statistic Percentage of tobacco use worldwide from 2000 to 2030, by age
  • Basic Statistic Percentage of tobacco smokers worldwide from 2000 to 2025, by region
  • Basic Statistic Number of tobacco smokers worldwide from 2000 to 2030, by region
  • Premium Statistic Distribution of daily smokers worldwide in 2019, by HDI and sex

Smoking by country

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  • Premium Statistic Countries with the highest number of smokers worldwide as of 2019
  • Basic Statistic Countries with the highest share of daily smokers worldwide in 2019
  • Basic Statistic Countries with the lowest share of daily smokers in 2019
  • Premium Statistic Percentage of smokers in the population of select countries 2022
  • Premium Statistic Smokers - proportion of smokers in select countries worldwide by gender as of 2022
  • Basic Statistic Countries with the highest average number of cigarettes consumed worldwide in 2019

Smoking among young teens

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  • Basic Statistic Number of cigarette smokers among children from 2012-2022, by region and sex
  • Premium Statistic Cigarette smoking among children worldwide 2012-2022, by region and sex
  • Basic Statistic Countries with the highest share of current smokers among young teens in 2019
  • Premium Statistic Countries with highest share of current smokers among young teens 2019, by sex

Deaths attributable to tobacco

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  • Premium Statistic Number of smoking-attributable deaths from tobacco-related diseases worldwide in 2019
  • Basic Statistic Number of tobacco-attributable deaths worldwide in 2019, by region and sex
  • Basic Statistic Distribution of tobacco-attributable deaths worldwide in 2019, by HDI
  • Premium Statistic Countries with the highest share of tobacco-related deaths among males in 2019
  • Basic Statistic Countries with the highest share of tobacco-related deaths among females in 2019

Prevention policies

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  • Premium Statistic Changes in cigarette affordability worldwide from 2012 to 2022, by income level
  • Premium Statistic Global population covered by select tobacco control policies 2022
  • Basic Statistic Strength of select global tobacco control policies by country number 2022
  • Basic Statistic Number of countries by strength of smoke-free legislation by income level 2022
  • Basic Statistic Number of countries with tobacco advertisement bans by income level 2022
  • Basic Statistic Number of countries based anti-smoking mass media campaigns by income level 2022
  • Basic Statistic Number of countries based on use of smoking warning labels by income level 2022
  • Basic Statistic Number of countries based on total tax on cigarettes by income level 2022

Miscellaneous

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  • Basic Statistic Average retail price and tax on popular cigarette brand globally by income level 2022
  • Premium Statistic Number of countries using tobacco dependence treatments by income level 2022
  • Premium Statistic Percentage of smokers in select countries who intend to quit as of 2019

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