Percentage of principal display area mandated to be covered by health warnings - back of smokeless tobacco packaging by country

Countries reporting
88
Highest
90
Maldives
Lowest
25
Mozambique
Median
50
Years covered
16
2007–2022
Data points
768

What the numbers show

Percentage of principal display area mandated to be covered by health warnings - back of smokeless tobacco packaging is currently reported for 88 countries. The highest value is 90 in Maldives; the lowest is 25 in Mozambique.

The median across all reporting countries is 50, and the mean is 47.32.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Maldives (up 200.0%), and the largest decrease in Ukraine (down 40.0%).

Percentage of principal display area mandated to be covered by health: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Maldives 90 2022 up 200.0% volatile
1 Benin 90 2022 up 200.0% volatile
1 Nepal 90 2022 up 20.0% rising
4 Türkiye 85 2022 up 30.8% volatile
4 India 85 2022 volatile
6 Uruguay 80 2022 unchanged rising
6 Chad 80 2022 up 60.0% rising
8 Brunei Darussalam 75 2022 unchanged rising
8 Sudan 75 2022 volatile
10 Cameroon 70 2022 up 40.0% rising
10 Kiribati 70 2022 up 133.3% rising
10 Tunisia 70 2022 up 133.3% rising
10 Ethiopia 70 2022 up 133.3% rising
14 Kyrgyzstan 65 2022 up 62.5% rising
14 Togo 65 2022 unchanged rising
14 Albania 65 2022 up 30.0% rising
14 Israel 65 2022 up 116.7% rising
14 Ghana 65 2022 up 30.0% rising
19 Ecuador 60 2022 unchanged rising
19 Burkina Faso 60 2022 unchanged flat
19 Namibia 60 2022 unchanged flat
19 Jamaica 60 2022 unchanged flat
23 Bangladesh 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Korea 50 2022 up 66.7% rising
23 Kuwait 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Madagascar 50 2022 unchanged volatile
23 Chile 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Egypt 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Nicaragua 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Canada 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Panama 50 2022 unchanged rising
23 Peru 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Philippines 50 2022 volatile
23 Djibouti 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Singapore 50 2014 unchanged flat
23 Eswatini 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Seychelles 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Tonga 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Trinidad and Tobago 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Argentina 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Viet Nam 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Yemen 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Cook Islands 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 United Arab Emirates 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Honduras 50 2022 unchanged falling
23 Kenya 50 2022 unchanged flat
23 Iran, Islamic Republic of 50 2018 unchanged flat
23 Japan 50 2022 up 66.7% rising
23 Costa Rica 50 2022 unchanged flat
50 Comoros 40 2022 unchanged flat
50 Indonesia 40 2022 unchanged flat
50 Uzbekistan 40 2022 unchanged flat
50 Kazakhstan 40 2018 up 33.3% rising
50 Lebanon 40 2022 unchanged rising
55 Belgium 35 2022 volatile
56 Luxembourg 32 2022 volatile
56 Ireland 32 2022 volatile
58 Guinea 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Croatia 30 2022 volatile
58 Denmark 30 2022 volatile
58 Spain 30 2022 volatile
58 Greece 30 2022 volatile
58 Austria 30 2022 volatile
58 Tuvalu 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Ukraine 30 2022 down 40.0% rising
58 France 30 2022 volatile
58 United States of America 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Colombia 30 2022 unchanged volatile
58 Germany 30 2022 volatile
58 Samoa 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Georgia 30 2022 unchanged falling
58 Portugal 30 2022 down 25.0% falling
58 Mali 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Eritrea 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Italy 30 2022 volatile
58 Netherlands 30 2022 volatile
58 Naoero 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Iraq 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Poland 30 2022 volatile
58 Hungary 30 2022 down 25.0% volatile
58 Romania 30 2022 volatile
58 Czechia 30 2022 volatile
58 Solomon Islands 30 2022 unchanged flat
58 Slovakia 30 2022 volatile
58 Slovenia 30 2022 volatile
58 Sweden 30 2022 volatile
87 Australia 25 2016 volatile
87 Mozambique 25 2022 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Percentage of principal display area mandated to be covered by health warnings - back of smokeless tobacco packaging
Source
World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (WHO)
Coverage
101 places, 768 data points, 2007–2022
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