Prevalence of current tobacco use (% of adults)

Dataset SH.PRV.SMOK published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
Code: SH.PRV.SMOK
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho

Definition published with the series

The percentage of the population ages 15 years and over who currently use any tobacco product (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco) on a daily or non-daily basis. Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, waterpipes (hookah, shisha), bidis, kretek, heated tobacco products, and all forms of smokeless (oral and nasal) tobacco. Tobacco products exclude e-cigarettes (which do not contain tobacco), “e-cigars”, “e-hookahs”, JUUL and “e-pipes”. The rates are age-standardized to the WHO Standard Population.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Prevalence of tobacco use among adults	SH.PRV.SMOK	% of adults aged 15 and over