Percentage of people who smoke | Namibia – yearly data, chart and table
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Data for 2025 are provisional (forecast).
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Overview
Number of smokers amounted to 14.10% of the adult population of Namibia in 2022. In 2021, the value was 14.50%. It has been falling in this country for already 7 years in a row (Includes only years with available data). Since 2000, for the whole period of WHO data, share of tobacco users in Namibia has decreased in 1.88 times. The highest number of people who smoke was in 2000, when it reached 26.50 % of population 15+.
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About indicator
The percentage of the population ages 15 years and over who currently use any tobacco product (smoked and/or smokeless tobacco) on a daily or non-daily basis. Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, waterpipes (hookah, shisha), bidis, kretek, heated tobacco products, and all forms of smokeless (oral and nasal) tobacco. Tobacco products exclude e-cigarettes (which do not contain tobacco), “e-cigars”, “e-hookahs”, JUUL and “e-pipes”.
