Health
Smoking (female)
SH.PRV.SMOK.FE · %
Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sudan, Canada. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
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Latest known value: 19.3% for Italy in 2024, over a series running from 2000 to 2024 and 6 countries compared, from the highest (Spain, 26.2%) to the lowest (China, 1.5%).
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Year by year values
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| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | China | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19.3% | 26.2% | 18% | 11.6% | 1.5% | 8.7% |
| 2023 | 19.3% | 26.4% | 18.3% | 12% | 1.5% | 9.1% |
| 2022 | 19.3% | 26.4% | 18.9% | 12.5% | 1.6% | 9.5% |
| 2020 | 19.2% | 26.5% | 19.8% | 13.5% | 1.7% | 10.5% |
| 2015 | 19.2% | 26.8% | 22.2% | 16.2% | 2% | 13.3% |
| 2010 | 19.1% | 27% | 25.1% | 19.7% | 2.3% | 16.8% |
| 2007 | 19.1% | 27.2% | 27.1% | 22% | 2.6% | 19.5% |
| 2005 | 19.1% | 27.4% | 28.4% | 23.7% | 2.7% | 21.4% |
| 2000 | 19.1% | 27.7% | 32.2% | 28.6% | 3.3% | 27.1% |
World Bank definition
Prevalence of current tobacco use, females (% of female adults)
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.
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The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia
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