French here: First-hand I’m seeing nothing like 34.6% of smokers here, unless including occasional smokers which skews the data a bit. In any case, “smoker” needs to be defined and then how the data was collected. Was this interviews, cigarette sales or what?
shocked not to see korea up there
I wonder what the percentages would look like for all nicotine products. Based on purely anecdotal evidence, it could be over 50% at least for young Europeans.
Reddit’s top 5 most active countries:
USA : 19.5
UK: 12.5
Canada : 10.7
Australia : 12
Germany: 19.7
France is there but not Spain? I have the impression that every 40+ person in Spain smokes.
![[OC] The Most Smoking Countries in the World 2025 (Estimation)](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/i1t0uq03wqsd1-1080x1024.png)
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Data Source: World Health Organization (https://platform.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing/indicator-explorer-new/MCA/age-standardized-prevalence-of-current-tobacco-smoking-among-persons-aged-15-years-and-older-(sdg-3.a.1))
<crosses them off his To Visit list>
If I am not mistaking Nauru is also the fattest country in the world.
Nauru doesn’t even have 13,000 people, so I would have expected to see other micronations listed as well but only Nauru and Tuvalu (11k) show up.
So it’s actually worse overall that some countries on this list have MILLIONS of smokers in their population. As opposed to like 5k smokers in Nauru.
Serbia str oh no no no i don’t wanna ban
a win for latin america. 😀 not one country on this list. Bien hecho hermanos
Serbia always goes hard as fuck
Would love to see the same but for the countries with the lowest prevalence.
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Alors c’est vrai ce qu’on dit…
many of the balkan countries also grow a lot of tobacco, i would guess that is true for georgia as well, but maybe none of the others?
france is a standout for being more populous and more developed than most others on this list
Just got back from Croatia. I actually chatted with people about how it felt like the 90’s again. So much smoking
Where is China? I was under the impression they are also country with widespread smoking?
Thinking that Indonesia population is 276×10^6 people , this is terrifying data.
“World Health Organization” is not specific enough. We need to know the actual link used.
Not the WHO, but I did see this;
* https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/smoking-rates-by-country
French here: First-hand I’m seeing nothing like 34.6% of smokers here, unless including occasional smokers which skews the data a bit. In any case, “smoker” needs to be defined and then how the data was collected. Was this interviews, cigarette sales or what?
shocked not to see korea up there
I wonder what the percentages would look like for all nicotine products. Based on purely anecdotal evidence, it could be over 50% at least for young Europeans.
Reddit’s top 5 most active countries:
USA : 19.5
UK: 12.5
Canada : 10.7
Australia : 12
Germany: 19.7
France is there but not Spain? I have the impression that every 40+ person in Spain smokes.