The bar chart illustrates the amount of men who smoke in 7 countries alonside with the median across the world in 2000 and 2015.
Overall, the smoking tendency seems to be lowered for almost ten percent in the last 15 years among the world. However, there are some countries that on the contrary, show the growth of males smokers, like Egypt and Lebanon.
Armenia noticeably leads in 2000 and remains to be in top even in 2015. Just like Cuba, which have not changed at all over the years. Bangladesh gave up its positins slightly, but still remains to be higer than Mexico and Australia.
Nontheless there are also aforementioned tendency to growth over the time, despite the average worls numbers, which have been decreased. Quantity of male smokers have increased in the middle East countries, especially Egypt which started from the same point as Lebanon in 200 but slightly outnumbered its neighbour in 2015.