Dataset
Affordability of cigarettes
owid.affordability-cigarettes
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About
Price of 100 packs of cigarettes as a share of GDP per capita. This price is based on the most-sold brand of cigarettes in a given country and includes taxes. Lower values indicate that cigarettes are more affordable.
Cite as: World Health Organization – Global Health Observatory (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Affordability of cigarettes (as a share of GDP per capita) – WHO” [dataset]. World Health Organization, “Global Health Observatory” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2012–2022
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2025-04-07
- Units
- %
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/affordability-cigarettes
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| cig_afford_pct_gdp | number | Affordability of cigarettes (as a share of GDP per capita) (%) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |