Smoking rates across the world - almost HALF of adults in one nation still ... trends now
It's already the fattest nation in the world. But Nauru's unwanted accolades don't stop there.
For the remote island, nestled away in the Pacific, also tops the charts for smoking.
Just under half of adults living there (48.5 per cent) smoke.
The nation of 12,500 people was followed by Myanmar, previously known as Burma (44.1 per cent) and Kiribati, another Pacific island.
A fascinating interactive map published by Our World in Data — which MailOnline app users can see by clicking here — shows the rates globally.
At the other end of the spectrum, smoking prevalence rates are below 5 per cent in parts of Africa.
Ghana comes bottom of the pile, according to the most recent global data for 2020 published by the data-tracking site.
Smoking rates in the country of 33million people stand at 3.5 per cent.
It is followed by 3.7 per cent in fellow west African nation Nigeria, and 5 per cent in Panama, situated in central America.
For comparison, the global average stands at around 23 per cent.
Smoking rates are 15.4 per cent in the UK, 23 per cent in the US and 13.6 per cent in Australia.
Nauru is not just known for it's picturesque beaches and lakes, such as Buada Lagoon pictured. Almost half of the island's 12,500 population smoke, with 48.50 per cent of adults lighting up, according to figures from 2020
Data suggests only 3.50 per cent of the 32.83 million people in Ghana smoke tobacco. Pictured, a sky view of Accra, the capital of Ghana
The table comes from the World Development Indicators, which recorded smoking trends between 2000 to 2020.
Stats show the share of men and women aged 15 and older who smoke any tobacco product on a daily or non-daily basis.
Despite there being an active tobacco industry in Ghana for more than 50 years, the West African country has the lowest rates of smoking, which could be due to its strict advertising bans.
In comparison, many Asian countries with high smoking rates only have a partial ban on tobacco advertising or no ban at all, meaning tobacco is can be advertised on TV and in print media.
Charts also published by the data site show how rates have plunged over the past few decades.
For instance, rates have more than halved over the past 20 years in Britain.
