Tea leaves — Area harvested 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
Tea leaves — Area harvested is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 3.65 million ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Seychelles.
The median across all reporting countries is 7,135 ha, and the mean is 181,624 ha.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Ethiopia PDR (up 311.1%), and the largest decrease in Seychelles (down 100.0%).
Tea leaves — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 3.65 million ha | 2024 | up 82.6% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 3.63 million ha | 2024 | up 83.0% | volatile |
| 3 | India | 613,416 ha | 2024 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | 268,829 ha | 2024 | up 21.1% | falling |
| 5 | Kenya | 228,400 ha | 2024 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Viet Nam | 113,037 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Indonesia | 103,605 ha | 2024 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 8 | Myanmar | 95,223 ha | 2024 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 9 | Türkiye | 81,010 ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 10 | USSR | 76,600 ha | 1991 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 58,754 ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 12 | Uganda | 44,765 ha | 2024 | up 39.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Japan | 35,100 ha | 2024 | down 21.7% | falling |
| 14 | Rwanda | 35,050 ha | 2024 | up 103.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 33,157 ha | 2024 | up 215.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Argentina | 29,869 ha | 2024 | down 22.4% | rising |
| 17 | Thailand | 21,394 ha | 2024 | up 157.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Nepal | 20,760 ha | 2024 | up 7.7% | volatile |
| 19 | Malawi | 19,883 ha | 2024 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 20 | United Republic of Tanzania | 17,185 ha | 2024 | down 19.5% | rising |
| 21 | China, Taiwan Province of | 13,730 ha | 2024 | up 16.5% | falling |
| 22 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 13,263 ha | 2024 | down 28.8% | falling |
| 23 | Burundi | 8,021 ha | 2024 | down 12.6% | volatile |
| 24 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 7,735 ha | 2024 | up 93.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Mozambique | 7,228 ha | 2024 | down 77.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Ethiopia | 7,135 ha | 2024 | up 43.3% | rising |
| 27 | Zimbabwe | 4,868 ha | 2024 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 28 | Papua New Guinea | 3,543 ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 28 | Melanesia | 3,543 ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 30 | Republic of Korea | 3,370 ha | 2024 | up 51.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Georgia | 2,477 ha | 2024 | up 49.8% | volatile |
| 32 | Cameroon | 2,369 ha | 2024 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 33 | Peru | 2,047 ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 34 | Ethiopia PDR | 1,850 ha | 1992 | up 311.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Malaysia | 1,764 ha | 2024 | down 23.4% | falling |
| 36 | Guatemala | 1,144 ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 37 | Ecuador | 1,104 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 38 | Madagascar | 1,052 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Azerbaijan | 740 ha | 2024 | up 56.8% | volatile |
| 40 | Zambia | 687 ha | 2024 | up 6.2% | volatile |
| 41 | Mauritius | 623 ha | 2024 | down 7.3% | volatile |
| 42 | El Salvador | 342 ha | 2024 | down 11.2% | volatile |
| 43 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 276 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 44 | Russian Federation | 254 ha | 2024 | down 47.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Brazil | 207 ha | 2024 | down 74.8% | volatile |
| 46 | Montenegro | 124 ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 47 | Colombia | 90 ha | 2024 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 48 | Mali | 87 ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | volatile |
| 49 | Portugal | 18 ha | 2017 | down 55.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Panama | 0 ha | 2014 | — | volatile |
| 50 | Seychelles | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 5.54 million ha
- Asia 5.09 million ha
- Eastern Asia 3.68 million ha
- Southern Asia 975,022 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 857,603 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 430,601 ha
- Africa 412,058 ha
- Eastern Africa 374,896 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 357,362 ha
- South-eastern Asia 342,757 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 150,007 ha
- Western Asia 84,227 ha
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.