Green tea (not fermented), black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3 kg — Production by country
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...
What the numbers show
Green tea (not fermented), black tea (fermented) and partly fermented tea, in immediate packings of a content not exceeding 3 kg — Production is currently reported for 46 countries. The highest value is 3.56 million t in China (People’s Republic of); the lowest is 0.54 t in Naoero, Republic of.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,004 t, and the mean is 217,406 t.
Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 19 fell. The largest increase was in Grenada (up 2,977.1%), and the largest decrease in Djibouti (down 97.1%).
Green tea (not fermented), black tea (fermented) and partly fermented: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (People’s Republic of) | 3.56 million t | 2023 | up 83.4% | rising |
| 2 | China, mainland | 3.54 million t | 2023 | up 84.0% | rising |
| 3 | India | 1.40 million t | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 4 | Kenya | 570,449 t | 2023 | up 31.9% | rising |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 259,294 t | 2023 | down 23.8% | falling |
| 6 | Indonesia | 116,506 t | 2023 | down 20.1% | falling |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 93,208 t | 2023 | up 40.7% | rising |
| 8 | Uganda | 87,264 t | 2023 | up 43.1% | rising |
| 9 | Japan | 75,200 t | 2023 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 10 | Argentina | 70,568 t | 2023 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 11 | Malawi | 43,351 t | 2023 | down 6.7% | flat |
| 12 | Rwanda | 38,071 t | 2023 | up 71.6% | rising |
| 13 | Myanmar | 26,645 t | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 14 | Nepal | 25,500 t | 2023 | up 23.9% | rising |
| 15 | Thailand | 25,200 t | 2023 | up 69.1% | rising |
| 16 | Zimbabwe | 14,000 t | 2023 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 17 | China, Taiwan Province of | 12,374 t | 2023 | down 15.9% | falling |
| 18 | Burundi | 11,600 t | 2023 | up 28.9% | rising |
| 19 | Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of | 7,200 t | 2023 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 20 | Papua New Guinea | 6,700 t | 2023 | down 5.6% | flat |
| 21 | Cameroon | 5,600 t | 2023 | down 19.0% | rising |
| 22 | Republic of Korea | 4,185 t | 2023 | up 50.5% | rising |
| 23 | Ecuador | 2,350 t | 2023 | up 8.8% | flat |
| 24 | Ireland | 1,657 t | 2023 | — | falling |
| 25 | Mauritius | 1,345 t | 2023 | down 13.9% | falling |
| 26 | Mozambique, Republic of | 987.74 t | 2023 | down 82.1% | falling |
| 27 | Oman | 926.74 t | 2023 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 28 | South Sudan, Republic of | 566.04 t | 2023 | — | rising |
| 29 | Lebanon | 561.35 t | 2023 | down 39.6% | falling |
| 30 | Gambia, The | 488.91 t | 2023 | down 46.4% | falling |
| 31 | Brazil | 463 t | 2023 | down 38.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Belgium | 356.55 t | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Israel | 222.45 t | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 34 | Guyana | 74.44 t | 2023 | up 39.7% | rising |
| 35 | Antigua and Barbuda | 27.81 t | 2023 | up 75.6% | rising |
| 36 | Seychelles | 25.92 t | 2023 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 37 | Guinea-Bissau | 25.17 t | 2023 | down 94.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Grenada | 14.77 t | 2023 | up 2,977.1% | volatile |
| 39 | Serbia, Republic of | 13.27 t | 2023 | up 167.5% | rising |
| 40 | Djibouti | 9.05 t | 2023 | down 97.1% | volatile |
| 41 | Kiribati | 8.18 t | 2023 | down 71.1% | volatile |
| 42 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 5.63 t | 2023 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 43 | Cuba | 3.84 t | 2023 | down 11.1% | falling |
| 44 | Vanuatu | 3.33 t | 2023 | up 38.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Tonga | 0.93 t | 2023 | — | falling |
| 46 | Naoero, Republic of | 0.54 t | 2023 | — | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 7.30 million t
- Asia 6.27 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.29 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 860,463 t
- Africa 849,547 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 255,009 t
- Americas 104,552 t
- Northern Europe 22,072 t
- European Union (27) 14,663 t
- Western Europe 7,367 t
- South America 78,462 t
- Europe 62,986 t
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.