Country-level data of tobacco production for the top tobacco-producing countries in the world*
| Country | The share of tobacco farming to GDP in 2018 (%) | Numbers of tobacco farmers by country | Share of tobacco farmers to total employment in agriculture sector (%) | Share of tobacco farmers to overall employment (%) | Share of tobacco exports to total commodity export in 2018 (%) | Share of tobacco exports to overall exports in 2018 (%) | Share of agricultural land for tobacco farming in 2014 (%) |
| China | 0.067480 | 5 497 000 (2017) | 1.9262394 | 0.7127087 | 0.0564555 | 0.0539464 | 3.57 |
| India | 0.037924 | 348 806 (2020) | 0.1353900 | 0.0744266 | 0.3136025 | 0.3078659 | 0.24 |
| Brazil | 0.073748 | 160 200 (2020) | 0.7302897 | 0.1692893 | 0.8351883 | 0.8214403 | 0.15 |
| Zimbabwe | 2.881452 | 122 323 (2020) | 2.4862904 | 1.8300320 | 15.3586822 | 13.8091314 | 0.49 |
| USA | 0.005314 | 6150 (2020) | 0.0378173 | 0.0038069 | 0.1077477 | 0.1157419 | 0.04 |
| Indonesia | 0.025456 | 527 688 (2017) | 1.0117532 | 0.4248894 | 0.4017758 | 0.4022222 | 0.37 |
| Zambia | 1.250362 | 17 637 (2020) | 0.3775204 | 0.2709508 | 2.0192082 | 1.5741121 | 0.28 |
| Bangladesh | 0.030106 | 100 000 (2017) | 0.3119531 | 0.1550109 | 0.3457389 | 0.2576211 | 0.55 |
| Tanzania | 0.006931 | 60 005 (2018) | 0.3016069 | 0.2327625 | 9.6420765 | 6.2570922 | 0.22 |
| Argentina | 0.041801 | 21 389 (2019) | 0.6571323 | 0.1140339 | 0.6106504 | 0.6136438 | 0.04 |
| Kenya | 0.023098 | 36 000 (2019) | 0.2112974 | 0.1557356 | 2.5454545 | 2.3123123 | 0.04 |
| Malawi | 0.201952 | 50 816 (2020) | 1.0161168 | 0.6692127 | 69.3137976 | 58.9067308 | 2.14 |
| Mozambique | 0.399495 | 137 042 (2017) | 1.5167903 | 1.1456254 | 5.2399423 | 3.1689756 | 0.15 |
*Data sources: tobacco raw production value data from Food and Agriculture Organization (http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/%23data/QV2). Tobacco farmer data from the database of various sources (eg, COMESA) at the International Tobacco Growers Association (an active opponent to tobacco control with direct ties with industry) (https://atlas.tobaccoleaf.org/) and tobacco farmer data for Kenya from Tobacco Tactics (https://tobaccotactics.org). Sectoral employment data for elementary occupations and skilled agricultural, fishery and forestry workers and overall country level employment data from International Labour Organization (https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer35/?lang=en&segment=indicator&id=EMP_2EMP_SEX_OCU_NB_A4). Export data of commodities from Total Trend Economy (https://trendeconomy.com/data/commodity_h2/TOTAL) and Bangladesh commodity export data from Bangladesh Bank (https://www.bb.org.bd/econdata/export/exp_rcpt_comodity.php). Tobacco export data and total export data from The Observatory of Economic Complexity (https://oec.world/en) that uses source data from CEPII French Economic Research Center and country-level data.6 The share of agriculture land from Tobacco Atlas (6th edition) (https://tobaccoatlas.org/).