National preventive health monitoring dashboard

Table 1: Tracking progress against the targets in Focus Area 1

Target	Baseline value1	Latest value2	Tracking against target3	Comparison change
Target 1: Achieve a national daily smoking prevalence of less than 10% by 2025 and 5% or less for adults (aged 18 years and over) by 2030	In 2017−18, 13.8% of adults aged 18 and over are daily smokers (ABS 2018f).	In 2022, 10.6% of adults aged 18 and over are daily smokers (ABS 2023k).	Improving	3.2 percentage point ↓ (decrease)
Target 2: Reduce the daily smoking rate among First Nations people (aged 15 years and over) to 27% or less by 2030	In 2018−19, 37.4% of First Nations people aged 15 and over smoked daily (ABS 2019c).	In 2022−23, 28.8% of First Nations people aged 15 and over smoked daily (ABS 2024a).	Improving	8.6 percentage point ↓ (decrease)

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Notes

1. Baseline value is the latest year of data that was available for each target at the time the National Preventive Health Strategy (NPHS) 2021–30 and the National Obesity Strategy (NOS) 2022–2032 were developed. Progress is measured against this baseline value, noting that there might be earlier data before the baseline year. Baseline level data for some indicators are also revised throughout the years and may be different to that included in the published strategies. For each target, where possible, a longer-term time trend is presented in the Interactive dashboard.
2. Latest value is the current latest year of data available to measure progress against the baseline value, as of 12 December 2024.
3. For interpretation of tracking the progress, see Table 1: Key for tracking against the targets of the National Preventive Health Strategy.