The bar graph highlights the percentage of smokers who are men and above the legal smoking age in seven named countries, alongside the mean percentage of smokers in the world in the years 2000 and 2015.
overall, three countries, Armenia, Bangladesh, and Cuba, exceeded the world average in 2000. This number increased to five by 2015 with the addition of Lebanon and Egypt. From the diagram, only Egypt and Lebanon did not experience a depreciation in percentage of adult male smokers from 2000 to 2015.
The mean value for the world was a little above 40% in 2000, this value was exceeded by Armenia, Bangladesh, and Cuba with about 65%, 60%, and 50% respectively. While Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico, and Australia all had lower averages than that of the globe – all below 40%.
Between 2000 and 2015, most of the countries experienced a decrease in the proportion of adult male smokers, which is visible in the change in world averages of the two years. Egypt and Lebanon, on the other hand, had an increased percentage, from more than 30% in 2000 to almost 50% for egypt and about 35% in 2000 to a bit above 40% for Lebanon.