Prevalence of current tobacco smoking (%) by region by sex, 2010 and 2025.AFRO (African Region)AMRO (American Region)EMRO (Eastern Mediterranean region)EURO (Europe Region)SEARO (South East Asia Region)WPRO (Western Pacific Region)

The table elucidates the smokers from 6 different regions in the world by gender differences between 2010 and 2025.

Overall, most of male have been smoking for more than 15 years, which constitutes of more than 80% of the world population; in particular, Western pacific male citizens were the highest smoking rates in 2010 and then this drop to the second place by 2025. Other smokers from Europe had the second highest male smoking rates in 2010 and go up to the first place in 2025 whereas the highest female smoking rates were from Europe and America for both periods 2010 and 2025.

In detail, almost half of Western pacific male smokers (of 49.4%) or 40.3% of European male smokers will drop to 43.3% and 31.3% in 2025 respectively. There will be a huge modification in the percentage of smokers for Eastern Mediterranean men as it changed from 35.1% to 45.3% while Oceania and East Asian Men showed fell by 6.1%. The percentage of female smokers showed a steadily decrease over 15 years as 4% drop in Europe and 5.9% in America (19.9% for Europe and 14.2% for America in 2010).

The rest of region showed the similar rates in 2010; Europe and South East Asia continent had around 26% male smokers, 20% men smokers from Africa America, while female smokers had a lower rate compared to those of males (2.5% for Africa, 3.1% for Europe, 2.9% for South East Asia and 3.6% for Western Pacific Regions).

The percentage of men smokers will be estimated at 34.7% for Africa, 31.3% for Europe, 27.5% for South East Asia and 16.3% for America by 2025, foremost women smokers will be estimated at much lower rates as those of 2010 figure (1.6% for Africa, 2.5% for Eastern Mediterranean, 1.2% for South East Asia and 2.4% for Western Pacific Region).

The world population smokers also reduced more than 3.2% for both genders for the projected periods (36.9% men smokers, 7.3% women smokers in 2010; 33.2% men smokers, 4.7% women smokers in 2025).