Variable: Prevalence of current tobacco use, males (% of male adults)

QoG Code: (wdi_smokm)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

The percentage of the male 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.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-12-19
Last updated by source: 2025-12-19


Categories:

Health


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2026 OECD Cross-section - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 164
Standard cross-section: 164
Standard time-series: 163
OECD cross-section: 32


This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 2000 to the year 2022