Global Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevalence Among 13-15 Year Olds

Global data on the percentage of adolescents aged 13-15 who used tobacco products in the last month. The dataset is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) and was last updated on July 12, 2026. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Modeling geographic disparities in youth tobacco use based on reported prevalence rates.
• Tracking temporal trends in adolescent smoking and smokeless tobacco consumption.
• Benchmarking national public health indicators against global adolescent tobacco use data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a major international organization, UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ).
• Dataset has a clear public health focus on a specific age group (13-15 years).
• It is available under an open license (CC-BY-3.0-IGO).

Limitations

• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-12 10:17:45.677376; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global