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...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
3.65 million ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Panama
Median
4,868 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,512

What the numbers show

Tea leaves — Area harvested is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 3.65 million ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Panama.

The median across all reporting countries is 4,868 ha, and the mean is 174,796 ha.

Over the past decade 27 countries rose and 25 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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
3 Viet Nam 113,037 ha 2024 down 2.1% volatile
4 Sri Lanka 268,829 ha 2024 up 21.1% falling
4 Türkiye 81,010 ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
5 Kenya 228,400 ha 2024 up 12.5% volatile
6 Indonesia 103,605 ha 2024 down 12.9% rising
6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 33,157 ha 2024 up 215.8% volatile
7 Myanmar 95,223 ha 2024 up 13.7% rising
7 United Republic of Tanzania 17,185 ha 2024 down 19.5% rising
8 USSR 76,600 ha 1991 down 2.0% rising
8 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 13,263 ha 2024 down 28.8% falling
9 Bangladesh 58,754 ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
9 Lao People's Democratic Republic 7,735 ha 2024 up 93.9% volatile
10 Uganda 44,765 ha 2024 up 39.5% volatile
11 Japan 35,100 ha 2024 down 21.7% falling
11 Melanesia 3,543 ha 2024 down 3.6% rising
12 Rwanda 35,050 ha 2024 up 103.5% volatile
12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 276 ha 2024 down 2.1% rising
13 Argentina 29,869 ha 2024 down 22.4% rising
14 Thailand 21,394 ha 2024 up 157.3% volatile
15 Nepal 20,760 ha 2024 up 7.7% volatile
16 Malawi 19,883 ha 2024 up 13.5% rising
17 China, Taiwan Province of 13,730 ha 2024 up 16.5% falling
18 Burundi 8,021 ha 2024 down 12.6% volatile
19 Mozambique 7,228 ha 2024 down 77.1% volatile
20 Ethiopia 7,135 ha 2024 up 43.3% rising
21 Zimbabwe 4,868 ha 2024 up 15.9% rising
22 Papua New Guinea 3,543 ha 2024 down 3.6% rising
23 Republic of Korea 3,370 ha 2024 up 51.2% volatile
24 Georgia 2,477 ha 2024 up 49.8% volatile
25 Cameroon 2,369 ha 2024 up 15.2% rising
26 Peru 2,047 ha 2024 down 8.2% falling
27 Ethiopia PDR 1,850 ha 1992 up 311.1% volatile
28 Malaysia 1,764 ha 2024 down 23.4% falling
29 Guatemala 1,144 ha 2024 down 3.7% rising
30 Ecuador 1,104 ha 2024 up 2.1% rising
31 Madagascar 1,052 ha 2024 up 2.0% volatile
32 South Africa 907 ha 2024 down 5.7% volatile
33 Azerbaijan 740 ha 2024 up 56.8% volatile
34 Zambia 687 ha 2024 up 6.2% volatile
35 Mauritius 623 ha 2024 down 7.3% volatile
36 Réunion 447 ha 2006 up 35.9% rising
37 El Salvador 342 ha 2024 down 11.2% volatile
38 Russian Federation 254 ha 2024 down 47.0% volatile
39 Brazil 207 ha 2024 down 74.8% volatile
40 Montenegro 124 ha 2024 down 0.8% flat
41 Colombia 90 ha 2024 up 50.0% rising
42 Mali 87 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
43 Portugal 18 ha 2017 down 55.0% volatile
44 Seychelles 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
44 Panama 0 ha 2014 — volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Tea leaves — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 4,512 data points, 1961–2024
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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.