Average retail price and taxation of top cigarette brand by country income 2022

As of 2022, the price minus tax of the most popular brand of cigarettes in high income countries was 3.24 purchasing power parity adjusted dollars. This statistic displays the global weighted average retail price and taxation (excise and total) of the most sold brand of cigarettes, as of 2022, by income level of countries.

Global weighted average retail price and tax on most sold cigarette brand as of 2022, by income level* (in U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	High-income	Middle-income	Low-income	Global
Price minus taxes	3.24	2.07	1.35	2.29
Other taxes	1.34	0.88	0.41	0.95
Excise tax per pack	5.2	2.13	1.34	2.71
Total price	9.78	5.07	3.1	5.95

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

* Excise and total.
Averages are weighted by WHO estimates of number of current cigarette smokers ages 15+ in each country in 2022. Prices are expressed in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) adjusted dollars or international dollars to account for differences in the purchasing power across countries. Based on 55 high-income, 103 middle-income and 21 low-income countries with data on prices of most sold brand, excise and other taxes, and PPP conversion factors.

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