WHO analysis: Cigarette smoking rate in U.S. to dip 6.5% over 15 years

The current cigarette smoking rate among men and women in the United States will decline from 19 percent in 2010 to 12.5 percent by 2025, according to a report by the World Health Organization.

The report charts current cigarette smoking (occasional and daily use) and daily cigarette smoking in WHO member countries and also examines smoking trends based on age.

The rate of daily cigarette smoking in the United States will drop from 15 percent in 2010 to 9.9 percent in six years, the WHO survey says.

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Current Cigarette Smoking Percentages by Region and Sex

Region	Country	Male 2010 Rate (%)	Female 2010 Rate (%)	Both Sexes 2010 Rate (%)	Male 2025 Rate (%)	Female 2025 Rate (%)	Both Sexes 2025 Rate (%)
Africa	Benin	8.4	0.2	4.3	12.6	0.1	6.3
Africa	Burkina Faso	22.7	0.8	11.4	35.6	0.4	17.8
Africa	Cameroon	16.3	0.4	8.3	59.4	0.4	29.8
Africa	Cape Verde	13.5	1.1	7.2	21.9	0.7	11.4
Africa	Comoros	20	5.1	12.5	15.5	2.3	8.9
Africa	Congo	17.4	0.8	9.1	73.7	0.9	37.1
Africa	Ethiopia	6.8	0.2	3.4	6.9	0.1	3.5
Africa	Ghana	7.6	0.1	3.8	11.4	0.1	5.7
Africa	Kenya	20	0.6	10.2	16.6	0.4	8.4
Africa	Lesotho	33.2	0.2	16.2	54.3	0.2	27.3
Africa	Liberia	17.3	0.8	9	27.3	0.5	14
Africa	Malawi	20	1.1	10.5	15.9	0.7	8.3
Africa	Mali	23.5	1.1	12.2	42.6	0.9	21.9
Africa	Mauritania	27.5	1.2	14.3	50.3	0.8	25.6
Africa	Mauritius	38	3.1	20.3	32.8	2.1	17
Africa	Mozambique	24.9	1.8	12.8	18.8	1.4	9.9
Africa	Namibia	22.9	6	14	31.4	5	17.7
Africa	Niger	11.1	0.1	5.5	24.1	0	12.1
Africa	Nigeria	10	0.3	5.2	15.7	0.2	8.1
Africa	Rwanda	14.5	1	7.4	12	0.9	6.2
Africa	Sao Tome and Principe	6.7	0.9	3.7	25.4	1.1	13
Africa	Senegal	14.9	0.2	7.2	20.3	0.1	9.9
Africa	Seychelles	35.3	5.7	20.8	32.6	4.6	18.5
Africa	Sierra Leone	38	5	21.3	58.7	3	30.7
Africa	South Africa	24.6	3.9	13.8	22.8	2.1	12.1
Africa	Swaziland	14.9	1.3	7.9	18.7	0.9	9.8
Africa	Uganda	15.1	0.8	7.9	9.3	0.5	4.9
Africa	United Republic of Tanzania	22.3	0.8	11.4	17	0.6	8.8
Africa	Zambia	22.4	1	11.7	20.1	0.8	10.4
Africa	Zimbabwe	23.7	0.5	11.8	23.6	0.3	11.9
Americas	Argentina	30.3	19.3	24.6	20.6	10.5	15.4
Americas	Barbados	10.1	0.9	5.4	9.8	0.5	5.1
Americas	Bolivia	29	15.6	22.2	18.1	10.4	14.2
Americas	Brazil	19.3	11.4	15.2	13.2	7.2	10.1
Americas	Canada	19.7	14.6	17.1	11.4	6.4	8.9
Americas	Chile	36.6	31.2	33.9	28.3	24.6	26.4
Americas	Colombia	14.8	6	10.3	10.2	3.7	6.9
Americas	Costa Rica	17.3	8.4	12.9	12.2	5.3	8.8
Americas	Cuba	43.5	17	30.3	44.9	10.6	27.7
Americas	Dominican Republic	13.1	7.4	10.2	12.5	5.2	8.8
Americas	Ecuador	12.6	3	7.8	8.8	2	5.4
Americas	Haiti	16.2	2.4	9.1	20.6	1.7	10.9
Americas	Honduras	29.3	2	15.5	17.3	1.1	9.2
Americas	Jamaica	24.3	5.6	14.7	26.6	3.8	14.9
Americas	Mexico	23.5	7.7	15.2	13.5	3.8	8.4
Americas	Panama	12.4	2.7	7.6	5.4	1.4	3.4
Americas	Paraguay	26.1	7.5	16.9	16.7	4.3	10.5
Americas	Peru	. . .	5.8	. . .	. . .	3.7	. . .
Americas	United States of America	21.5	16.6	19	14.6	10.5	12.5
Americas	Uruguay	28.2	19.3	23.5	15.8	10.1	12.8
Eastern Mediterranean	Bahrain	31.3	1.8	21.1	80.3	3.5	52.9
Eastern Mediterranean	Egypt	32.4	0.2	16.2	48.7	0.1	24.2
Eastern Mediterranean	Iran	15	0.8	7.9	12.4	0.1	6.2
Eastern Mediterranean	Jordan	52.2	7.7	30.4	81	11.6	46.8
Eastern Mediterranean	Lebanon	35.2	22.3	28.9	48.3	31.3	39.9
Eastern Mediterranean	Morocco	35.3	1.3	17.8	49.5	0.5	24.6
Eastern Mediterranean	Oman	14	0.5	8.8	26	0.7	17.6
Eastern Mediterranean	Pakistan	23.9	1.8	13.1	28.1	0.7	14.7
Eastern Mediterranean	Saudi Arabia	19.6	2.2	12.4	27.6	2	18.1
Europe	Albania	45.5	5.5	25.4	42.6	3.9	23
Europe	Andorra	31.1	20.5	25.8	26.1	17	21.6
Europe	Armenia	52.5	1.7	27	42.5	1.1	21.9
Europe	Azerbaijan	39.5	0.4	19.3	32.4	0.2	16
Europe	Belarus	47.4	9.2	26.7	34.8	7	19.5
Europe	Belgium	23	16.8	19.8	17.2	13.8	15.4
Europe	Bosnia and Herzegovina	40.2	25.3	32.5	32.9	21.2	26.9
Europe	Bulgaria	41.3	23.8	32.3	29.6	15.3	22.2
Europe	Croatia	30.9	21.6	26	30	25.1	27.4
Europe	Czech Republic	31.5	22.3	26.8	28.5	21	24.7
Europe	Denmark	19	18.2	18.6	8.2	8.6	8.4
Europe	Estonia	36.9	18.2	26.7	27.5	16.3	21.4
Europe	Finland	19.3	13.9	16.5	12.7	9.5	11.1
Europe	France	24.6	18.3	21.3	19.2	16.3	17.7
Europe	Georgia	52.2	5.1	26.7	46.7	4.3	23.9
Europe	Germany	28.9	22.4	25.6	23.2	19.4	21.2
Europe	Greece	46.6	28.3	37.3	40.2	22.3	31.1
Europe	Hungary	28.6	19.4	23.7	19.6	13.6	16.4
Europe	Iceland	15.9	14	14.9	8.4	8	8.2
Europe	Ireland	25.1	23.8	24.4	17	17	17
Europe	Israel	34.1	16.7	25.1	32.8	14.6	23.6
Europe	Italy	27.6	17.6	22.4	23.1	16.3	19.6
Europe	Kazakhstan	44.5	8.5	25.5	35	6.8	20
Europe	Kyrgyzstan	43.7	3.1	22.8	45.4	2.3	23.1
Europe	Latvia	41	17.4	27.9	35.5	16.5	25
Europe	Lithuania	34.6	15.4	24.1	24.9	15.4	19.7
Europe	Luxembourg	23	17.6	20.2	17.3	14.8	16
Europe	Malta	25.9	16	20.9	19.8	11.6	15.7
Europe	Netherlands	23.7	19.8	21.7	16.6	14.4	15.5
Europe	Norway	21.3	20.5	20.9	11	11	11
Europe	Poland	33.5	23.2	28.1	23.6	14.3	18.7
Europe	Portugal	24.8	10	17.1	21	8.3	14.4
Europe	Republic of Moldova	39.5	4.5	20.8	44.8	4.1	23
Europe	Romania	36	18.9	27.1	25.3	15	19.9
Europe	Russian Federation	56.5	17.8	35.3	50	17.5	32
Europe	Serbia	36.8	29.1	32.9	29.2	27.4	28.3
Europe	Slovakia	33.7	14.5	23.7	29.2	11.8	20.2
Europe	Slovenia	19.6	13.7	16.6	14.1	10.5	12.3
Europe	Spain	30.4	21.5	25.9	20.3	16.2	18.2
Europe	Sweden	18.2	18	18.1	11.3	10.7	11
Europe	Switzerland	26.9	19.3	23	20.3	14.1	17.1
Europe	Turkey	42	13.4	27.2	28	8.2	17.8
Europe	Ukraine	48.6	10.7	27.9	40	8.6	22.7
Europe	United Kingdom	22	20	20.9	13.9	12.5	13.2
Europe	Uzbekistan	21.1	1.1	10.9	18.9	1	9.8
Southeast Asia	Bangladesh	32	0.5	16.4	20.9	0.1	10.4
Southeast Asia	India	10.2	0.9	5.7	6.3	0.3	3.4
Southeast Asia	Indonesia	58.7	3.4	31	79	2.4	40.7
Southeast Asia	Myanmar	30.2	6.7	18	17.8	3.1	10.2
Southeast Asia	Nepal	31.7	11.3	20.9	26.3	4	14.4
Southeast Asia	Sri Lanka	20.6	0.4	10.2	20.1	0.1	9.6
Southeast Asia	Thailand	42.1	2.5	21.8	37.5	2.2	19.3
Western Pacific	Australia	16.2	12	14	9.8	6.7	8.2
Western Pacific	Brunei Darussalam	23.2	2.9	13.1	24.5	2	13.3
Western Pacific	Cambodia	34.1	3.1	17.9	33.6	1.3	16.8
Western Pacific	China	46.7	2	24.9	41.9	1.3	22.2
Western Pacific	Fiji	33	10	21.7	26.2	8.9	17.6
Western Pacific	Japan	36.5	9.8	22.7	23.4	6.8	14.8
Western Pacific	Kiribati	55.2	32.4	43.6	44	27.9	35.9
Western Pacific	Lao People's Democratic Republic	48.2	9.2	28.3	38.2	4.3	21.1
Western Pacific	Malaysia	38.3	1.4	19.3	30.9	0.7	15.1
Western Pacific	Mongolia	40.1	4.8	22.2	35.5	3.1	18.9
Western Pacific	Nauru	38.3	42.2	40.2	30	35.7	32.8
Western Pacific	Niue	19.5	10.3	15	13.8	7.8	10.8
Western Pacific	Philippines	43.3	7.1	25	32.1	5.1	18.4
Western Pacific	Republic of Korea	52.7	4.7	28.4	42.1	3.9	22.7
Western Pacific	Samoa	36.5	16.2	26.6	24.3	12.2	18.4
Western Pacific	Singapore	25	4.2	14.4	25.3	3.4	14.1
Western Pacific	Tonga	38.8	10.6	24.4	34.5	9.2	21.8
Western Pacific	Vanuatu	50.4	16.4	33.4	38.8	13.6	26.2
Western Pacific	Viet Nam	37.6	1	18.8	36.9	0.8	18.4

Daily Cigarette Smoking Percentages by Region and Sex

Region	Country	Male 2010 Rate (%)	Female 2010 Rate (%)	Both Sexes 2010 Rate (%)	Male 2025 Rate (%)	Female 2025 Rate (%)	Both Sexes 2025 Rate (%)
Africa	Benin	7.7	0.2	3.9	11.6	0.1	5.8
Africa	Burkina Faso	13.9	0.7	7.1	21.7	0.4	10.9
Africa	Cameroon	14.1	0.2	7.1	52.2	0.2	26.1
Africa	Cape Verde	10.3	0.9	5.6	16.7	0.6	8.7
Africa	Comoros	11.3	1.9	6.6	8.9	0.8	4.9
Africa	Congo	14.2	0.5	7.3	62.1	0.6	31.2
Africa	Ethiopia	5.1	0.1	2.6	5.3	0.1	2.7
Africa	Ghana	6.7	0.1	3.3	10.2	0.1	5.1
Africa	Kenya	17	0.5	8.7	14.1	0.4	7.2
Africa	Lesotho	27.2	0.2	13.2	44.8	0.1	22.5
Africa	Liberia	13	0.6	6.8	20.2	0.4	10.3
Africa	Malawi	16.2	1.1	8.6	12.8	0.7	6.8
Africa	Mali	15.2	0.6	7.9	27.8	0.5	14.2
Africa	Mauritania	15.8	1	8.4	29.5	0.7	15.1
Africa	Mauritius	29.3	1.2	15	25.3	0.8	12.7
Africa	Mozambique	20.4	1.5	10.5	15.4	1.2	8.1
Africa	Namibia	18.3	4.6	11.1	25.4	3.8	14.2
Africa	Niger	10	0	5	21.6	0	10.8
Africa	Nigeria	8.4	0.3	4.4	13.2	0.1	6.8
Africa	Rwanda	11.4	0.9	5.9	9.4	0.8	5
Africa	Sao Tome and Principe	5.6	0.5	3	21.3	0.6	10.7
Africa	Senegal	13.3	0.2	6.4	18.2	0.1	8.9
Africa	Seychelles	28.2	3.3	16	26	2.6	14.2
Africa	Sierra Leone	33.9	3.6	18.6	53.3	2.1	27.6
Africa	South Africa	20.7	4.3	12.1	19.2	2.3	10.5
Africa	Swaziland	8	0.9	4.3	10	0.6	5.3
Africa	Uganda	10	0.7	5.4	6.1	0.4	3.3
Africa	United Republic of Tanzania	19.5	0.8	10.1	14.8	0.6	7.7
Africa	Zambia	14.4	0.8	7.6	12.9	0.7	6.7
Africa	Zimbabwe	19.7	0.4	9.8	19.8	0.3	10
Americas	Argentina	23	14.6	18.7	15.7	7.9	11.7
Americas	Barbados	7	0.6	3.8	6.9	0.3	3.6
Americas	Bolivia	21	9.6	15.2	13	6.4	9.7
Americas	Brazil	16.2	9.1	12.6	11.1	5.8	8.4
Americas	Canada	14.8	10.8	12.8	8.6	4.8	6.6
Americas	Chile	26.2	21.3	23.7	20.2	16.9	18.6
Americas	Colombia	9.4	3.2	6.2	6.4	2	4.1
Americas	Costa Rica	10.1	4.7	7.4	7.2	3	5.1
Americas	Cuba	31.5	13	22.3	33.4	8.1	20.8
Americas	Dominican Republic	11.1	6.3	8.7	10.6	4.4	7.5
Americas	Ecuador	6.8	1.5	4.1	4.7	1	2.8
Americas	Haiti	8.1	1.1	4.5	10.2	0.7	5.4
Americas	Honduras	21	1.3	11	12.5	0.7	6.5
Americas	Jamaica	15	3.8	9.3	16.5	2.6	9.4
Americas	Mexico	14.2	4.4	9.1	8.1	2.2	5
Americas	Panama	6.6	1.4	4	2.9	0.7	1.8
Americas	Paraguay	17.3	4	10.7	11.1	2.2	6.7
Americas	Peru	. . .	2.4	. . .	. . .	1.5	. . .
Americas	United States of America	16.9	13.2	15	11.6	8.3	9.9
Americas	Uruguay	22.8	15.1	18.7	12.6	7.8	10.1
Eastern Mediterranean	Bahrain	26.6	1.1	17.7	71.2	2.1	46.6
Eastern Mediterranean	Egypt	26.9	0.1	13.5	40.8	0	20.3
Eastern Mediterranean	Iran	10.7	0.5	5.6	8.9	0.1	4.5
Eastern Mediterranean	Jordan	37.8	1.9	20.2	64.5	2.8	34.1
Eastern Mediterranean	Lebanon	25.8	5.6	16	35.5	7.9	21.8
Eastern Mediterranean	Morocco	27.2	0.6	13.5	38.3	0.2	18.9
Eastern Mediterranean	Oman	11.1	0.2	6.9	20.8	0.3	14
Eastern Mediterranean	Pakistan	19.8	1.2	10.7	23.5	0.5	12.3
Eastern Mediterranean	Saudi Arabia	16.2	0.6	9.8	22.8	0.6	14.6
Europe	Albania	39	5.1	21.9	36.6	3.6	19.9
Europe	Andorra	25.1	16.7	20.9	21.2	13.9	17.5
Europe	Armenia	45.6	1.2	23.4	36.8	0.8	18.9
Europe	Azerbaijan	32.6	0.3	16	27.1	0.2	13.3
Europe	Belarus	41.3	6.2	22.2	30	4.6	16.1
Europe	Belgium	17.7	13.4	15.5	13.2	11	12.1
Europe	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.9	21.2	28.8	30.6	17.7	23.9
Europe	Bulgaria	34.2	18.4	26	24.7	11.8	18
Europe	Croatia	27.7	17.2	22.2	26.9	20	23.3
Europe	Czech Republic	28	18.1	22.9	25.2	17.3	21.2
Europe	Denmark	13.9	13.3	13.6	6	6.3	6.2
Europe	Estonia	33.5	14.7	23.2	25.1	13.1	18.6
Europe	Finland	15.2	11.4	13.2	10	7.8	8.9
Europe	France	22.2	15.9	18.9	17.3	14.2	15.7
Europe	Georgia	42.7	3.3	21.4	38.6	2.8	19.3
Europe	Germany	24.7	17.5	21	19.7	15.1	17.3
Europe	Greece	38.8	22	30.2	33.4	17.3	25.2
Europe	Hungary	26.1	18.1	21.8	17.9	12.7	15.1
Europe	Iceland	13.9	11.7	12.8	7.3	6.7	7
Europe	Ireland	20.3	20.3	20.3	13.8	14.5	14.2
Europe	Israel	30.3	13.7	21.8	29.3	11.9	20.5
Europe	Italy	24.6	16.6	20.4	20.3	15.3	17.7
Europe	Kazakhstan	29.1	6.1	17	22.9	4.9	13.3
Europe	Kyrgyzstan	37.2	2.7	19.5	38.7	2	19.8
Europe	Latvia	39	15.3	25.9	33.8	14.5	23.2
Europe	Lithuania	27.7	11.1	18.6	19.8	11.3	15.1
Europe	Luxembourg	17.6	14.3	15.9	13.3	12	12.7
Europe	Malta	23	13.5	18.2	17.6	9.8	13.7
Europe	Netherlands	21.2	17.8	19.5	14.8	13	13.9
Europe	Norway	16.3	16.3	16.3	8.4	8.7	8.6
Europe	Poland	29.3	18.7	23.8	20.7	11.5	15.9
Europe	Portugal	21.2	7.6	14.1	17.8	6.4	11.9
Europe	Republic of Moldova	33.1	3.6	17.4	37.3	3.3	19.1
Europe	Romania	32.2	16.9	24.3	22.5	13.4	17.8
Europe	Russian Federation	49.4	14.3	30.2	43.7	14.2	27.4
Europe	Serbia	34.2	26.8	30.4	27.2	25	26.1
Europe	Slovakia	27.8	10.7	18.9	24.1	8.8	16.2
Europe	Slovenia	17	11.9	14.4	12.2	9.2	10.7
Europe	Spain	25.9	18.5	22.1	17.3	13.9	15.6
Europe	Sweden	11.6	13.6	12.6	7.2	8.1	7.7
Europe	Switzerland	20.8	16.8	18.8	15.6	12.3	14
Europe	Turkey	37.4	10.7	23.6	25	6.5	15.5
Europe	Ukraine	43.4	7.5	23.8	35.8	6	19.4
Europe	United Kingdom	21.9	20	20.9	13.9	12.5	13.2
Europe	Uzbekistan	16.4	0.8	8.5	14.7	0.7	7.6
Southeast Asia	Bangladesh	26.5	0.4	13.6	17.3	0.1	8.7
Southeast Asia	India	6	0.6	3.4	3.7	0.2	2
Southeast Asia	Indonesia	55.4	2.2	28.7	75.4	1.6	38.5
Southeast Asia	Myanmar	18.6	4.4	11.2	10.9	2	6.3
Southeast Asia	Nepal	25.9	9.4	17.2	21.4	3.3	11.8
Southeast Asia	Sri Lanka	15.7	0.2	7.7	15.3	0	7.3
Southeast Asia	Thailand	35.9	1.8	18.3	32.3	1.6	16.4
Western Pacific	Australia	13.3	10.3	11.8	8.1	5.7	6.9
Western Pacific	Brunei Darussalam	18.9	2.1	10.5	19.9	1.4	10.7
Western Pacific	Cambodia	29.4	2.7	15.4	28.8	1.1	14.4
Western Pacific	China	40.5	1.6	21.5	36.1	1	19.1
Western Pacific	Fiji	24	6.9	15.6	19.2	6.1	12.7
Western Pacific	Japan	29.5	7.5	18.1	18.8	5.1	11.7
Western Pacific	Kiribati	31.6	19.2	25.3	25.4	16.4	20.9
Western Pacific	Lao People's Democratic Republic	43.2	6	24.2	34.2	2.8	18.4
Western Pacific	Malaysia	34.5	1	17.3	27.7	0.5	13.5
Western Pacific	Mongolia	37.3	4.3	20.5	33.3	2.8	17.6
Western Pacific	Nauru	27.7	31.4	29.5	21.7	26.4	24
Western Pacific	Niue	13.1	6.8	10	9.2	5.1	7.1
Western Pacific	Philippines	33.7	5.6	19.5	25.1	4	14.5
Western Pacific	Republic of Korea	49.8	3.8	26.5	39.9	3.2	21.2
Western Pacific	Samoa	31.8	13.4	22.9	21	10.1	15.7
Western Pacific	Singapore	21.8	3.2	12.3	22	2.6	12.1
Western Pacific	Tonga	31.5	9	20	28	7.8	17.9
Western Pacific	Vanuatu	36.9	12.5	24.7	27.9	10.2	19.1
Western Pacific	Viet Nam	28.7	0.8	14.3	28.1	0.7	14.1

Source: World Health Organization