In the visualization, we see the share of men who smoke (plotted on the x-axis) compared with the same metric for women(plotted on the y-axis). Countries like Egypt and Georgia have a huge difference between men and women where more men smoke than women. But there are a few exceptions: in the Oceania continent - the state of Nauru, more women smoke than men, and smoking rates in Denmark and Norway show almost no sex difference. In many countries – particularly across Asia and Africa – the differences are very large. Here smoking rates for women are very low – typically less than 5%. In Indonesia, approximately 70% of men smoke but only 5% of women; in China, it’s 50% of men versus 2% of women; and in Egypt half of men smoke whilst almost no women (0.4%) do. Overall, when we look at the trend, tobacco consumption is shrinking across every continent specifically in the Africa and Americas continent.
To deep dive into the consumption and understand the general trend of tobacco use, it is important to look at the average amount of tobacco use by adults. The average number of adults consuming tobacoo products on a daily and non-daily basis is declining by every year. When we look at the male category, the average share of males was almost 50% in Asia which is reduced to 18.9% in 2019 in the Americas. On the other side, the average share of females was quite low at 9.36% in 2000 in Africa which again has reduced to almost 3% in Africa in 2019. Overall, we can conclude that the Asia continent has been very active in the consumption of tobacco products by males and in female usage, Europe tops the ranks for the time period 2000-2019 respectively.