Daily smokers
People aged 15 and over who smoke tobacco products every day, from the European Health Interview Survey, which runs about every five years.
31 countries have a value for 2019, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of people aged 15 and over. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19.3% | 22.9% | 18.5% | 19.8% |
| 2014 | 19.9% | 15.9% | 22.4% | 23.0% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 31 countries with a value for 2019, the highest is Bulgaria (29.1%) and the lowest Sweden (7.4%).
- Half of the countries are above 19.3% and half below.
- The figure for the European Union was 19.3% in 2019, against 19.9% in 2014 (−0.6 percentage points).
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Before comparing
- Survey every five to six years.
Source and dates
All countries in 2019 Every value is for 2019, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Bulgaria 29.1%
- 2 Türkiye 28.0%
- 3 Serbia 27.1%
- 4 Greece 24.9%
- 5 Hungary 24.9%
- 6 Germany 22.9%
- 7 Latvia 22.6%
- 8 Cyprus 22.5%
- 9 Croatia 22.1%
- 10 Slovakia 21.0%
- 11 Austria 20.6%
- 12 Malta 20.6%
- 13 Czechia 19.9%
- 14 Spain 19.8%
- 15 Poland 19.4%
- 16 Estonia 19.3%
- 17 Lithuania 18.9%
- 18 Romania 18.9%
- 19 France 18.5%
- 20 Slovenia 17.4%
- 21 Italy 17.3%
- 22 Belgium 15.4%
- 23 Netherlands 15.4%
- 24 Portugal 14.2%
- 25 Ireland 14.1%
- 26 Denmark 12.9%
- 27 Luxembourg 11.4%
- 28 Finland 10.7%
- 29 Norway 10.3%
- 30 Iceland 8.4%
- 31 Sweden 7.4%
- European Union 19.3%
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Grey: no value for 2019. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.