Tobacco use in Chad

7.4% of adults in Chad used tobacco in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2000.

Measure: Prevalence of tobacco use among adults Unit: % of adults aged 15 and over Data: 2000 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Chad, 2024 7.4% % of adults aged 15 and over
Change from 2023 −0.1percentage points 2023: 7.5%
World, 2024 20.3% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 155th of 166 See the full ranking

Tobacco use in Chad over time

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% of adults aged 15 and over. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Prevalence of tobacco use among adults (% of adults aged 15 and over), 2000 to 2024
Period ChadWorld
2024 7.4% 20.3%
2023 7.5% 20.7%
2022 7.7% 21.1%
2020 7.9% 22.0%
2015 8.4% 24.5%
2010 9.1% 27.5%
2007 9.6% 29.5%
2005 9.8% 30.9%
2000 10.7% 34.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 7.5% in 2023.
  • Since 2000, when it was 10.7%, the figure has changed by −3.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 166 countries with data for 2024, Chad has the 155th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 20.3%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SH.PRV.SMOK · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2000 to 2024 for Chad
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory