About this data

Source: World Health Organization (WHO), Global Health Observatory, via Our World in Data

• Includes all tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipes and smokeless tobacco like snus and chewing tobacco, but not e-cigarettes. Snus is common in Sweden and Norway, which raises their figures. Because it covers all tobacco, people aged 15 and over, and is adjusted for age, the UK figure is higher than ONS's estimate of cigarette smoking.
• WHO models these estimates from national surveys so that countries can be compared; figures for recent years are partly projections from the latest surveys, which can be several years old.
• WHO doesn't publish estimates for Taiwan.

This chart appears in Smoking.