#1 World Bank Data (World Development Indicators)
World Bank - Prevalence of Current Tobacco Use (% of adults)
- Coverage
- Roughly 265 economies, territories and aggregate regions…
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Tobacco Data Provider: From the Prevalence Panel to the Excise Ledger
Datadory covers tobacco data provider with 16 datasets spanning World Bank - Prevalence of Current Tobacco Use (% of adults) , World Bank API - Tobacco Smoking Indicators (SH.PRV.SMOK*) and IHME GBD Results Tool - Tobacco/Smoking Query Interface . Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly — your call.
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The manifest
Every catch in this slice, ranked by our quality rubric — depth of documentation, freshness, breadth. Pick one, sample it, ship it.
#2
World Bank API - Tobacco Smoking Indicators (SH.PRV.SMOK*)
- Coverage
- Roughly 265 World Bank economies plus regional and…
#3
IHME GBD Results Tool - Tobacco/Smoking Query Interface
- Coverage
- Global - 204 countries and territories plus 660…
#4 World Health Organization (WHO GHO)
WHO Global Health Observatory Legacy Data Repository - Tobacco
- Coverage
- All WHO member states (194+) plus regional and global…
#5 World Health Organization
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2023
- Coverage
- All WHO Member States (~194 countries) plus six WHO…
#6 Eurostat (European Commission)
Eurostat - Daily Smokers of Cigarettes (sdg_03_30)
- Coverage
- 35 European geographies: EU-27 aggregate
Plus 4 more in this slice — each with its field dictionary and sample rows on its own page.
The lay of the water
Where tobacco data provider data actually comes from.
Pick your catch
Three to start with. The rest of the board is above.
Tobacco data provider Roughly 265 economies, territories and… · 2000-2024, annual observations
World Bank - Prevalence of Current Tobacco Use (% of adults)
indicator.id · country.value · countryiso3code …+5 more
Tobacco data provider Roughly 265 World Bank economies plus… · 2000-2024 annual observations
World Bank API - Tobacco Smoking Indicators (SH.PRV.SMOK*)
indicator.id · indicator.value · country.id …+5 more
Tobacco data provider Global - 204 countries and territories… · 1990/2023 (GBD 2023 release)
IHME GBD Results Tool - Tobacco/Smoking Query Interface
measure · location_name · sex_name …+7 more
Tobacco data provider All WHO member states (194+) plus… · Varies by indicator
WHO Global Health Observatory Legacy Data Repository - Tobacco
IndicatorCode · SpatialDim · ParentLocation …+5 more
Tobacco data provider All WHO Member States (~194 countries)… · Report series 2008-present (2023 edition
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2023
IndicatorCode · SpatialDim · ParentLocation …+9 more
Tobacco data provider 35 European geographies: EU-27 aggregate · Eurobarometer survey waves 2006, 2009…
Eurostat - Daily Smokers of Cigarettes (sdg_03_30)
freq · age · sex …+4 more
Tobacco data provider United States (national aggregates)… · Monthly and annual series beginning…
US TTB - Tobacco Statistics
Year · CY_Month_Number · Statistical_Group …+6 more
Tobacco data provider Countries worldwide plus world and… · Varies by chart
Our World in Data - Smoking
entity · code · year …+1 more
Tobacco data provider Global: 204 countries and territories… · Annual estimates 1990-2019 from a…
IHME GHDx - GBD 2019 Smoking Tobacco Use Prevalence 1990-2019
location_name · sex · age_group_name …+3 more
Tobacco data provider United States state-level (policy… · Policy tables 1995-2024
Hugging Face Datasets - Tobacco Hub (118 datasets)
image · label · LocationDesc / Year / ProvisionGroupDesc …+3 more
Who fishes here
Six personas work this shelf, and each gets a dedicated page:
Choosing between them
Three attributes decide it.
Grain: the World Bank panel runs country-year; WHO GHO adds a sex dimension and an uncertainty interval per cell; GBD resolves down to location-by-age-by-sex-by-year across 660 subnational locations; TTB keys on month-by-product-category.
A cross-country regression and a prefecture-level burden study need opposite ends of that range — match the unit of analysis before anything else.
Window: prevalence runs 2000-2024 at the World Bank and through 2022-2023 at WHO; burden reaches back to 1990 in both GBD vintages, though only the 2023 release carries the subnational cut; MPOWER stacks policy years since 2008; TTB begins at calendar 2012.
No single record covers the whole span, so pair them rather than pretending one does.
Shape: survey-derived panels arrive as tidy country-year tables; the GHO modeled estimates keep their confidence bands inline, which changes how you plot them; MPOWER mixes integer policy scores with scope-marked prevalence rows under one schema; TTB grades a whole industry once a month.
Where two records genuinely overlap, the Eurostat-versus-GBD head-to-head lays out survey-share versus modeled-burden row by row, TTB versus the WHO epidemic report settles supply-side versus policy-side, and GBD 2019 versus Our World in Data weighs raw extracts against curated charts.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I get smoking prevalence data by country?
The World Bank SH.PRV.SMOK panel measures current tobacco use as a percent of adults for roughly 265 countries and aggregate regions, annually from 2000 to 2024. The SH.PRV.SMOK.MA and .FE siblings carry the male and female splits on identical country-year keys, so a sex-gap analysis is one join rather than three reconciliations.
Which dataset has smoking deaths and DALYs by country?
The IHME GBD Results Tool covers deaths, DALYs, YLLs/YLDs, prevalence and smoking-attributable burden across 204 countries and territories plus 660 subnational locations, spanning 1990 through 2023 in the GBD 2023 release. Query-defined extracts run up to 100,000 rows each against an underlying release exceeding 607 billion estimates.
Where can I find EU cigarette smoking data by sex?
Eurostat indicator sdg_03_30 tracks the share of people aged 15 and over smoking boxed cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos or a pipe across 35 European entities — EU-27 and aggregates, member states, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK — split by sex for survey waves 2006 through 2023, about 600 observations in total.
How do I track US cigarette production and excise tax volumes?
US TTB Tobacco Statistics publishes monthly and yearly series beginning calendar 2012, current through the July 2026 posting: removals, production, exports, inventories, industry member counts and excise-tax-relevant volumes for cigarettes, cigars, smokeless and pipe tobacco. Its 2012 rows show 304.0 billion cigarette sticks among 315.3 billion manufactured, filed by 42 reporting members.
What data exists on MPOWER tobacco control policies?
WHO's Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2023 — the ninth edition — scores every MPOWER measure from 1 to 4 for each member state back to 2008 and ships country profiles beside the scores. The companion Global Health Observatory bulk carries roughly 369,000 rows across 29 data files covering the same indicator family.
How confident are the modeled smoking prevalence estimates?
The WHO Global Health Observatory keeps the uncertainty interval inside the record rather than in a methods appendix. Malaysia's 34.5% male current-tobacco-use estimate for 2022 ships with a 22.0-to-47.0 band, admitting the underlying surveys disagree, while Cameroon's 9.1% for 2023 sits in a far tighter 6.5-to-11.8 range — comparing those bands is a column operation.
Are there machine learning datasets about tobacco?
Yes. The Hugging Face tobacco hub indexes 118 repositories, mostly Parquet and CSV: CDC STATE System policy and tax tables spanning 1995 to 2024, an approximately 800,000-row smokefree indoor air corpus, tax burden series reaching back to 1970, and labeled document-image collections such as the 3,482-scan classification set.
How does Datadory deliver tobacco data?
By files, scheduled feeds, or straight into your warehouse — daily, weekly or hourly, your call. Rows arrive typed with stable join keys and the complete field dictionary attached, whether the record is a 265-economy prevalence panel, an uncertainty-banded WHO estimate, an MPOWER policy score or a monthly federal print.
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