Tea (including mate) — Food in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Tea (including mate) — Food was 1,187 1000 t in 2023. ▼ Falling
Tea (including mate) — Food in Sri Lanka, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 t.
Analysis
Sri Lanka recorded 1,187 1000 t for tea (including mate) — food in 2023.
That represents a change of up 3.7% on the previous year and down 19.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tea (including mate) — food in Sri Lanka peaked at 1,506 1000 t in 2021 and was at its lowest, 1,145 1000 t, in 2022.
That places Sri Lanka 7th out of 182 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,395 1000 t | 1,274 1000 t | 1,482 1000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,262 1000 t | 1,145 1000 t | 1,506 1000 t | 4 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tea (including mate) — food in Sri Lanka?
- Tea (including mate) — food in Sri Lanka was 1,187 1000 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tea (including mate) — food recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 1,506 1000 t in 2021.
- What is the lowest tea (including mate) — food recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,145 1000 t in 2022.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for tea (including mate) — food?
- Sri Lanka ranks 7th out of 182 countries with data for 2023.
- Is tea (including mate) — food rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tea (including mate) — Food. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.