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 57 countries. The highest value is 3.56 million t in China; the lowest is 0.54 t in Nauru.
The median across all reporting countries is 2,350 t, and the mean is 186,060 t.
Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Caribbean (up 3,309.0%), 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 | 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 |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 282,150 t | 2023 | up 29.6% | rising |
| 4 | Kenya | 570,449 t | 2023 | up 31.9% | rising |
| 4 | Türkiye | 264,989 t | 2023 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 259,294 t | 2023 | down 23.8% | falling |
| 5 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 23,814 t | 2023 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 6 | Indonesia | 116,506 t | 2023 | down 20.1% | falling |
| 6 | United Republic of Tanzania | 23,775 t | 2023 | down 29.5% | falling |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 93,208 t | 2023 | up 40.7% | rising |
| 8 | Uganda | 87,264 t | 2023 | up 43.1% | rising |
| 8 | Melanesia | 6,703 t | 2023 | down 5.6% | flat |
| 9 | Japan | 75,200 t | 2023 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 10 | Argentina | 70,568 t | 2023 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 10 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 2,969 t | 2023 | up 147.4% | volatile |
| 11 | Malawi | 43,351 t | 2023 | down 6.7% | flat |
| 11 | Republic of Moldova | 194.99 t | 2023 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 12 | Rwanda | 38,071 t | 2023 | up 71.6% | rising |
| 12 | Micronesia | 8.72 t | 2023 | down 69.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Myanmar | 26,645 t | 2023 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 13 | Polynesia | 0.93 t | 2023 | — | falling |
| 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 | 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 |
| 21 | Caribbean | 147.27 t | 2023 | up 3,309.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Republic of Korea | 4,185 t | 2023 | up 50.5% | rising |
| 22 | Cabo Verde | 6.35 t | 2023 | down 24.4% | falling |
| 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 | 987.74 t | 2023 | down 82.1% | falling |
| 27 | Oman | 926.74 t | 2023 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 28 | South Sudan | 566.04 t | 2023 | — | rising |
| 29 | Lebanon | 561.35 t | 2023 | down 39.6% | falling |
| 30 | Gambia | 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 | 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 | Saint 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 | Nauru | 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
- Eastern Asia 3.64 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 380,482 t
- Southern Asia 1.86 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
- Eastern Africa 800,525 t
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 8,382 t
- South-Eastern Asia 464,292 t
- Western Asia 296,639 t
- Middle Africa 5,680 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 255,009 t
- Americas 104,552 t
- South America 78,462 t
- Europe 62,986 t
- Eastern Europe 31,547 t
- Northern Europe 22,072 t
- European Union (27) 14,663 t
- Western Africa 10,990 t
- Western Europe 7,367 t
- Oceania 7,109 t
- Southern Europe 2,001 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.