India vs Kenya: Tea leaves — Area harvested
Tea leaves — Area harvested over time
- India
- Kenya
How they compare
India currently reports 613,416 ha against 228,400 ha in Kenya, a difference of 385,016 ha.
That makes India's figure about 2.7 times Kenya's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, India has been ahead every year.
India ranks 3rd and Kenya ranks 5th of 45 countries.
India has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Kenya | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 343,446 ha | 26,047 ha | 317,400 ha | India |
| 1970s | 365,219 ha | 58,892 ha | 306,328 ha | India |
| 1980s | 400,745 ha | 82,980 ha | 317,765 ha | India |
| 1990s | 434,800 ha | 109,185 ha | 325,615 ha | India |
| 2000s | 534,109 ha | 139,784 ha | 394,324 ha | India |
| 2010s | 597,694 ha | 211,818 ha | 385,877 ha | India |
| 2020s | 610,854 ha | 234,080 ha | 376,774 ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tea leaves — area harvested, India or Kenya?
- India, at 613,416 ha against 228,400 ha in Kenya as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tea leaves — area harvested between India and Kenya?
- 385,016 ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Kenya?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do India and Kenya rank globally for tea leaves — area harvested?
- India ranks 3rd and Kenya ranks 5th of 45 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tea leaves — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.