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Number cigarettes consumed per person per year

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HFA-DB
Indicator full name: Number cigarettes consumed per person per year
Unit: number of cigarettes per person
Dimensions:
  • Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
  • Supranational group of countries (COUNTRY_GRP)
  • Sex (SEX)
  • Year of measure (YEAR)
Years data is available: 1970—2004
Last updated: 21 October 2025
Countries with no data (13): 
  • Andorra
  • Cyprus
  • Georgia
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Luxembourg
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • Republic of Moldova
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
(Sub)regional averages available for: 
  • Central Asian Republics Information Network members (CARINFONET)
  • Small countries
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HFA-DB
European Health for All database
Indicators: 618
Updated: 21 October 2025
The following abbreviations are used in the indicator titles:
•    SDR: age-standardized death rates (see HFA-DB user manual/Technical notes, page 13, for details)
•    FTE: full-time equivalent
•    PP: physical persons
•    PPP$: purchasing power parities expressed in US $, an internationally comparable scale reflecting the relative domestic purchasing powers of currencies.

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Indicator notes
Number cigarettes consumed per person per year
Indicator code: E170902.T This indicator shares the definition with the parent indicator \"Total number of cigarettes consumed (in million pieces), per year\".

Total number of cigarettes sold/consumed in the country as calculated from official national statistics on production, import and export of cigarettes. Data sources are the statistics published in the Tobacco Journal International._
Country/Area notes
Belgium
Source: Centre for Information and Documentation on Tobacco.

Remark: the data listed in the prefilled data sheets refer to the number of cigarettes sold in
Belgium and Luxemburg. Belgian data are only available from 1996 on. The data for 1996, 1997 and
1998 refer to Belgium only.
Croatia
Source for 1996, 1997 and 1998 is the Tobacco Institute, Zagreb.
Czechia
Data according to Czech Statistical Office.
Estonia
Health survey, 1994.
Finland
Source: Statistics Finland
Germany
All data recalculated in 1999.

Source: German Health Monitoring System
Iceland
Source: Whosesale figures from the State Wine, Spirit and Tobacco Authoirty in Iceland.
Ireland
Source: Revenue Commissioners for 1989-1996
Israel
Spain
Source: Ministerio de Economia y Hacienda. Agencia Tibutaria.
Sweden
Millions of cigarettes sold. Source: Svenska Tobaks AB.
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