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Reading no. 2024/069

SocietyObserved data

Share of smokers among adults, Pacific

40.5% of adults

Pacific

Papua New GuineaKiribatiSolomon IslandsNauruTuvaluTongaMarshall IslandsFiji

Prevalence of tobacco use among adults, latest known year of each territory up to 2022: the top ten of the Pacific.

  1. Papua New Guinea40.5
  2. Kiribati39.7
  3. Solomon Islands38.6
  4. Nauru36.6
  5. Tuvalu34.3
  6. Tonga32.0
  7. Marshall Islands29.6
  8. Fiji26.4
  9. Vanuatu25.0
  10. Samoa24.1

The first territory of the ranking, Papua New Guinea, counts 40.5% of smokers among its adults.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator SH.PRV.SMOK, read for seventeen territories of the Pacific from 2018 to 2022. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2025/278 · 5 Oct40.2pupils per teacherPupils per teacher in primary education, Pacific2024/022 · 22 Jan3.88children per womanNumber of children per woman, Pacific2026/278 · 5 Oct40.2pupils/teacherPupils per teacher in primary education, Pacific2026/251 · 8 Sep87.0%Adult literacy rate in the Pacific

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