The bar chart illustrates the proportion of males who smoke in seven countries consisting, Armenia, Egypt, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Cuba, Mexico, Australia in addition to the proportion of male smokers all around the world, comparing two years of 2000 and 2015.
It can clearly be seen that, the number of males who usually smoke decreased globally as well as in individual contries except for Egypt and Lebnon which exprienced an increase in the number of male smokers.
Armenia’s male smokers consited almost 70% of whole population of males in 2000 which was more than three times greater than such proportion in Australia as the given country with the lowest proportion, surpassing the proportion all around the world. Bangladesh and Cuba had the highest number of male smokers after Armenia by more than 60% and 50%, respectively of whole population of males in their country in 2000. In that year Egypt, Lebanon, and Mexico had an approximately same proprtion of male smokers out of the males’ population of almost 35%, slightly greater than such proportion in Australia by less than 30% of their males’ population.
In the period of 15 years from 2000 and 2015, Armenia and Bangladesh as the countries with the greatest proportion of male smokers considering the number of all males, showed a significant decrease of nearly 15 and 25 percent respectively. While Mexico and Australia went through a considerable decrease from approximately 35 and 30 to almost 20 pecent, similar to the global trend of reduced number of male smokers compared to the whole population, Egypt and lebanon demonstrated a reverse pattern, making the proportion of male smokers 50 and 45 percent of the whole population that is greater than their percentage in 2000 of almost 35%.