WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000–2024 and projections 2025–2030

Overview

This report presents WHO estimates of tobacco use prevalence among the population aged 15 years and older from 2000–2024, with trends projected to 2030. Estimates are at global, regional and country levels.

Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The estimates are updated every two years and reported to the UN Statistical Division as WHO’s official estimates of Sustainable Development Goals indicator 3.a.1. This indicator is also used to report progress also towards the tobacco use reduction target under the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013–2020 and towards the WHO’s Fourteenth Global Programme of Work.

In addition, the report presents a global summary of use of different tobacco products and e-cigarettes by children aged 13–15 years from recent national school-based surveys.