The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) aims at measuring on a harmonised basis and with a high degree of comparability among Member States (MS) the health status (including disability), health determinants (lifestyle) of the EU citizens and use of health care services and limitations in accessing it.

The general coverage of the survey is the population aged 15 or over living in private households residing in the territory of the country.

EHIS was developed between 2003 and 2006. It consists of four modules on health status, health determinants, health care, and background variables (socio-demographic characteristics of the population).

Three waves of EHIS have currently been implemented. The first wave of EHIS (EHIS wave 1 or EHIS round 2008) was conducted between 2006 and 2009 in 17 EU Member States as well as Switzerland and Turkey.

The second wave (EHIS wave 2 or EHIS round 2014) was conducted between 2013 and 2015 in all EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Turkey according to the Commission Regulation 141/2013.

The third wave of EHIS was conducted in 2019. All Member States participated in the EHIS wave 3 in accordance with the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2018/255. A derogation regarding the data collection period was granted for some countries: the data collection period was 2018 for Belgium, 2018-2020 for Austria and Germany, and 2019-2020 for Malta.

The questionnaire consists of the same four modules for all the EHIS waves and over the years, some changes to the questionnaire have been implemented to satisfy specific users’ needs. Also, countries are allowed to include additional questions in the specific submodules or even specific sub-modules in the survey if this does not have an impact on the results of the compulsory variable

EHIS includes the following topics:

Health status
This topic includes different dimensions of health status and health-related activity limitations:

• General health status (Minimum European health module): self-perceived health, chronic morbidity and disability (activity limitation)
• Disease-specific morbidity
• Accidents and injuries
• Health-related absenteeism from work
• Physical and sensory functional limitations (also cognitive limitations in wave 3)
• Difficulties in personal care activities / activities of daily living (such as eating and washing) and help received/needed
• Household activities / Instrumental activities of daily living (such as preparing meals and shopping) and help received/needed
• Pain
• Aspect of mental health (psychological distress and mental well-being in the first wave, depressive symptoms in the second and third waves)
• Work-related health problems (only in the first wave).

Health care
This topic covers the use of different types of medicines and formal and informal health and social care services, which are complemented by data on health-related expenditure, and limitations in access to and satisfaction with health care services:

• Hospitalisation (in-patient and day care)
• Consultations with doctors and dentists
• Visits to specific health professionals (such as physiotherapists or psychologists)
• Use of home care services
• Use of medicines (prescribed and non-prescribed)
• Healthcare preventive actions (such as influenza vaccination, breast examination, cervical smear test and blood tests)
• Unmet needs for health care
• Out-of-pocket payments for medical care (only in the first wave)
• Satisfaction with services provided by healthcare providers (only in the first wave)
• Visits to specific categories of alternative medicine practitioners (only in the first wave).

Health determinants
This topic includes various individual and environmental health determinants:

• Height and weight
• Physical activity/exercise
• Consumption of fruits, vegetables and juice
• Drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks (only in the third wave)
• Tobacco smoking behaviour and exposure to tobacco smoke
• Use of e-cigarettes or similar electronic devices (only in the third wave)
• Alcohol consumption
• Social support
• Provision of informal care or assistance (only in the second and third waves)
• Illicit drug use (only in the first wave)
• Environment (home and workplace exposures, criminality exposure) (only in the first wave).

Background variables on demography and socio-economic characteristics.

All indicators are expressed as percentages within the population and statistics are broken down by age and sex and one other dimension such as educational attainment level, income quintile group, degree of urbanization, country of birth, country of citizenship, level of disability (activity limitation).

Among the shown European countries, Bulgaria had the highest share of adults who smoked daily as of 2021, at almost ** percent. Furthermore, ** percent of people in Turkey were reported to also be daily smokers in 2021, an increase from the share of smokers in 2011. Conversely, most European countries have decreased in smokers since 2011.

In 2021, Jordan had the highest rate of daily smokers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at almost ** percent, followed by Turkey, and the West Bank and Gaza strip respectively. The majority of countries in the region had daily smoking rates between ** and ** percent.

This statistic shows the evolution of daily smokers among the French population between 2000 and 2021 by gender. Despite an increase between 2019 and 2020, the overall trend was a decrease of the share of smokers in France in the past two decades: 30 percent of the respondents were daily smokers in 2000, compared to 25.3 percent in 2021.

France Total Daily Smokers was up 1.6points in 2019, from a year earlier.

Number and percentage of persons who reported being current daily smokers, by age group and sex.

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Dataset from Singapore Department of Statistics. For more information, visit https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_26dc9d0415ebc42309c8fbcf209d3e07/view

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (GBD 2019), coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors at the global, regional, national, territorial, and, for a subset of countries, subnational level.

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Table of INEBase Number of cigarettes consumed per day by daily smokers according to gender and age groups. Population of 15 and older smoking cigarettes on a daily basis. National. European Health Survey

Between 2010 and 2019, the percentage of smokers in Italy decreased considerably. In 2010, this figure was equal to 22.8 percent, while in 2019 the share of smokers in the Italian population over 14 years of age was equal to 18.4 percent. Despite this decrease, this figure in Italy grew again and in 2024 and reached 19.8 percent. This statistic shows the share of daily smokers in Italy from 2010 to 2024.

Number of cigarettes consumed per day by daily smokers according to gender and social class based on the reference person's occupation. Population of 15 and older smoking cigarettes on a daily basis. National.

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Table of INEBase Number of cigarettes smoked per day by daily smokers, by sex and Autonomous Community. Population aged 15 years old and over that smokes cigarettes daily. National. European Health Survey

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Average age of smoking initiation among daily smokers by gender and social class based on the reference person's occupation. Average and standard deviation. Population of 15 and older smoking daily. National.

Table of INEBase Average age of smoking initiation among daily smokers by gender and age groups. Average and standard deviation. Population of 15 and older smoking daily. National. European Health Survey