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Death rates are measured as the number of early deaths due to smoking per 100,000 individuals in a given demographic group.
Crude death rate: the share of the population that dies each year IHME. Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Sweden. Death rate attributed to household air pollution. Death rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution. Death rate by age group in England and Wales. Death rate by cause.
20 maj 2024 · The estimated number of age-standardized deaths from all causes attributed to smoking, per 100,000 people. Source IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
27 maj 2021 · The most comprehensive data on global trends in smoking highlights its enormous global health toll. The number of smokers worldwide has increased to 1.1 billion in 2019, with tobacco smoking causing 7.7 million deaths – including 1 in 5 deaths in males worldwide.
31 lip 2023 · Tobacco kills up to half of its users who don’t quit(1-3). Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year, including an estimated 1.3 million non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke (4). Around 80% of the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users live in low- and middle-income countries.
Tobacco use is a major contributor to illness and death from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). There is no proven safe level of tobacco use or of second-hand smoke exposure. All daily and non-daily users of tobacco are at risk of a variety of poor health outcomes across the life-course, including NCDs.
In 2019, 69.1 % of people aged 15 years and over in the EU reported that they were exposed to smoke indoors either rarely or never. Among the 30.9 % who were exposed to smoke, around half (15.4 % of the reference population) were exposed on a daily basis and the remainder less often.
