Tobacco use, age-standardized
Percentage of people aged 15 and over who currently use any tobacco product, smoked or smokeless, daily or on some days (SDG indicator 3.a.1). Women and men together, age-standardized to the WHO standard population. E-cigarettes are not counted. WHO estimates from national surveys, published in its global report on trends in tobacco use.
Covers every tobacco product, so values are higher than cigarette smoking rates such as adult_smoking_rate, the CDC rate for US states. For about 60 countries, among them France, Germany, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom, WHO has no estimate of all tobacco use and substitutes its estimate of tobacco smoking, so smokeless tobacco is not counted there. WHO publishes estimates every five years from 2000 and every year from 2022. Years after a country's most recent national survey are WHO projections and are not loaded, nor are its projections for 2025 and 2030, so the latest year differs by country. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.
Key facts
- Tobacco use, age-standardized in the United States was 16.4% in 2023, according to World Health Organization.
- Myanmar had the highest tobacco use, age-standardized of 166 countries in 2015, at 49.9%, and Ghana the lowest, at 4.5%. Source: World Health Organization.
- Published for 167 places, with figures from 2000 to 2024.
Rankings
Countries by tobacco use, age-standardized, 2015
Places with data
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Niger
- Uganda
- Republic of the Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Which places have the highest tobacco use, age-standardized? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"tobacco_use_prevalence_age_standardised","level":"country"}
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