Smoking Rates by Country 2023

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Interactive Map Introduction Smoking Population by Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay People's Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Introduction

Smoking tobacco has been a pastime of humanity since ancient times, often in ever-evolving forms like burning and smoking tobacco in pipes, or through cigarettes and cigars. Cigarettes came about during the early 19th century, as a convenient way to smoke tobacco. Since then, they have dominated the public perception of smoking, and have become widely available commodities worldwide.

Therefore when one talks about the smoking rates by country, one would be referring to the smoking of cigarettes as the primary form of tobacco consumption. The use of tobacco is dependent on a multitude of factors, the most pertinent being wealth. Generally, more affluent and upper-middle-class people smoke cigarettes more, as they consistently have the means to pay for their higher prices (due to taxes). The same goes for countries, as wealthier countries have a higher fraction of their population smoking than their poorer counterparts. Religion and culture also play an important role in the promotion or deterrence of tobacco consumption.

If you would like to learn more about smoking rates around the world, please refer to the data in the map and charts.

#	Country	Smoking Population	Cancer Incidence Rate
1	Nauru	48.5%
2	Myanmar	44.1%	133.6 per 100k
3	Serbia	39.8%	291.6 per 100k
4	Papua New Guinea	39.3%	186.2 per 100k
5	East Timor	39.2%	88.6 per 100k
6	Bulgaria	39%	238.5 per 100k
7	Lebanon	38.2%	152.7 per 100k
8	Indonesia	37.6%	138.4 per 100k
9	Latvia	37%	296.1 per 100k
10	Croatia	36.9%	284.1 per 100k
11	Solomon Islands	36.5%	130 per 100k
12	Cyprus	35.1%	248 per 100k
13	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35%	221.6 per 100k
14	Jordan	34.8%	153.2 per 100k
15	Bangladesh	34.7%	105.5 per 100k
16	Greece	33.5%	260.4 per 100k
17	France	33.4%	320.1 per 100k
18	Lithuania	32%	287.5 per 100k
19	Andorra	31.8%
20	Hungary	31.8%	321.6 per 100k
21	Laos	31.8%	163.7 per 100k
22	Georgia	31.7%	191.3 per 100k
23	Slovakia	31.5%	290.4 per 100k
24	Montenegro	31.4%	260.6 per 100k
25	Czech Republic	30.7%	281.2 per 100k
26	Turkey	30.7%	225.6 per 100k
27	Belarus	30.5%	246.9 per 100k
28	Nepal	30.4%	80 per 100k
29	Estonia	29.7%	274.2 per 100k
30	Mongolia	29.4%	214 per 100k
31	Chile	29.2%	173.5 per 100k
32	Moldova	29%	211.2 per 100k
33	Marshall Islands	28.5%
34	Romania	28%	255.9 per 100k
35	Madagascar	27.8%	120.8 per 100k
36	Spain	27.7%	264.6 per 100k
37	India	27.2%	96.4 per 100k
38	Russia	26.8%	229.2 per 100k
39	Austria	26.4%	241.6 per 100k
40	Ukraine	25.8%	206.3 per 100k
41	People's Republic of China	25.6%	203.8 per 100k
42	Armenia	25.5%	200.1 per 100k
43	Switzerland	25.5%	268.2 per 100k
44	Kyrgyzstan	25.4%	126.5 per 100k
45	Portugal	25.4%	255 per 100k
46	Maldives	25.2%	122.3 per 100k
47	Vietnam	24.8%	158.6 per 100k
48	Tunisia	24.6%	131 per 100k
49	Argentina	24.5%	212.4 per 100k
50	Egypt	24.3%	157.5 per 100k
51	Lesotho	24.3%	106 per 100k
52	Azerbaijan	24%	138.4 per 100k
53	Malta	24%	238 per 100k
54	Poland	24%	260.4 per 100k
55	Sweden	24%	271 per 100k
56	Belgium	23.4%	322.8 per 100k
57	Afghanistan	23.3%	105.6 per 100k
58	Kazakhstan	23.2%	160.3 per 100k
59	Fiji	23.1%	168.7 per 100k
60	Italy	23.1%	278.3 per 100k
61	United States of America	23%	297.3 per 100k
62	Philippines	22.9%	161 per 100k
63	Malaysia	22.5%	142.5 per 100k
64	Albania	22.4%	142.2 per 100k
65	Netherlands	22.2%	315.1 per 100k
66	Thailand	22.1%	161.7 per 100k
67	Germany	22%	281.9 per 100k
68	Slovenia	22%	300.2 per 100k
69	Sri Lanka	22%	104 per 100k
70	Finland	21.6%	260.9 per 100k
71	Uruguay	21.5%	257.8 per 100k
72	Israel	21.2%	239.4 per 100k
73	Cambodia	21.1%	133.3 per 100k
74	Luxembourg	21.1%	264.6 per 100k
75	Algeria	21%	132.5 per 100k
76	Ireland	20.8%	326.6 per 100k
77	South Korea	20.8%	239.9 per 100k
78	Comoros	20.3%	107.6 per 100k
79	South Africa	20.3%	193.2 per 100k
80	Yemen	20.3%	95.2 per 100k
81	Mauritius	20.2%	152.2 per 100k
82	Pakistan	20.2%	107.6 per 100k
83	Seychelles	20.2%
84	Japan	20.1%	282.9 per 100k
85	Botswana	19.4%	104.8 per 100k
86	Iraq	18.5%	133.3 per 100k
87	Cuba	17.9%	202.1 per 100k
88	Kuwait	17.9%	115.1 per 100k
89	Vanuatu	17.8%	107.8 per 100k
90	Palau	17.6%
91	Uzbekistan	17.6%	106.9 per 100k
92	Denmark	17.5%	334.9 per 100k
93	North Korea	17.4%	160.7 per 100k
94	Singapore	16.5%	229.8 per 100k
95	Brunei	16.2%	219.5 per 100k
96	Norway	16.2%	312.3 per 100k
97	United Kingdom	15.4%	296.1 per 100k
98	Namibia	15.1%	186.1 per 100k
99	Bahrain	14.9%	111.5 per 100k
100	Morocco	14.5%	147.3 per 100k
101	Republic of the Congo	14.5%	84.3 per 100k
102	Zambia	14.4%	150.8 per 100k
103	Burkina Faso	14.3%	109.4 per 100k
104	Mozambique	14.3%	131 per 100k
105	Saudi Arabia	14.3%	95.2 per 100k
106	New Zealand	13.7%	295.3 per 100k
107	Rwanda	13.7%	111.7 per 100k
108	Australia	13.6%	312.3 per 100k
109	Iran	13.6%	148.7 per 100k
110	Sierra Leone	13.5%	99.8 per 100k
111	Mexico	13.1%	134.6 per 100k
112	Canada	13%	287.4 per 100k
113	Brazil	12.8%	203.8 per 100k
114	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12.8%	101.9 per 100k
115	Bolivia	12.7%	132.5 per 100k
116	Guyana	12.1%	141.2 per 100k
117	Iceland	12%	252 per 100k
118	Burundi	11.8%	133.3 per 100k
119	Qatar	11.8%	106.6 per 100k
120	Zimbabwe	11.7%	194.7 per 100k
121	Paraguay	11.5%	185.9 per 100k
122	Ecuador	11.3%	149.7 per 100k
123	Kenya	11.1%	147.1 per 100k
124	The Gambia	11.1%	79.3 per 100k
125	Guatemala	10.9%	120 per 100k
126	Malawi	10.8%	151.3 per 100k
127	Mauritania	10.7%	106.1 per 100k
128	Dominican Republic	10.6%	169.4 per 100k
129	The Bahamas	10.6%	185 per 100k
130	Ivory Coast	9.4%	121.7 per 100k
131	Jamaica	9.4%	196.9 per 100k
132	Eswatini	9.2%	123.4 per 100k
133	Guinea-Bissau	9%	104.8 per 100k
134	Costa Rica	8.8%	175.2 per 100k
135	Tanzania	8.7%	131 per 100k
136	Barbados	8.5%	216 per 100k
137	Belize	8.5%	111.2 per 100k
138	Colombia	8.5%	177.5 per 100k
139	Uganda	8.4%	152 per 100k
140	Chad	8.3%	100.4 per 100k
141	Mali	8.3%	137.5 per 100k
142	Liberia	8.2%	117.1 per 100k
143	Peru	8.1%	169.4 per 100k
144	Oman	8%	102.1 per 100k
145	El Salvador	7.9%	127.3 per 100k
146	Haiti	7.7%	136.9 per 100k
147	Eritrea	7.5%	98.1 per 100k
148	Niger	7.4%	76.4 per 100k
149	Cameroon	7.3%	125.8 per 100k
150	Benin	6.9%	94.1 per 100k
151	Senegal	6.9%	116.9 per 100k
152	Togo	6.8%	107.6 per 100k
153	São Tomé and Príncipe	5.7%	126.4 per 100k
154	Turkmenistan	5.5%	123.2 per 100k
155	Ethiopia	5.1%	103.4 per 100k
156	Panama	5%	148.2 per 100k
157	Nigeria	3.7%	108.1 per 100k
158	Ghana	3.5%	114.6 per 100k

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