Prevalence of current tobacco use, females

The percentage of the female 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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
166
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    World Health Organization

    Global Health Observatory Data Repository, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho

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  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20246.30percent
Albania20246.10percent
Algeria20240.60percent
Andorra202436.40percent
Argentina202419.90percent
Armenia20241.80percent
Australia20249.90percent
Austria202423.50percent
Azerbaijan20240.10percent
Bahamas20243.40percent

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