Tea leaves — 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
Tea leaves — Production is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 16.30 million t in China; the lowest is 0 t in Panama.
The median across all reporting countries is 32,399 t, and the mean is 964,196 t.
Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Ethiopia PDR (up 270.4%), and the largest decrease in Seychelles (down 100.0%).
Tea leaves — Production: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 16.30 million t | 2024 | up 70.9% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 16.26 million t | 2024 | up 71.2% | volatile |
| 3 | India | 6.16 million t | 2024 | up 17.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Kenya | 2.69 million t | 2024 | up 38.9% | volatile |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 1.51 million t | 2024 | down 16.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 1.41 million t | 2024 | up 11.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Viet Nam | 1.15 million t | 2024 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Indonesia | 658,000 t | 2024 | down 1.9% | volatile |
| 9 | Bangladesh | 437,652 t | 2024 | up 58.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Uganda | 414,945 t | 2024 | up 46.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Argentina | 356,753 t | 2024 | down 1.2% | volatile |
| 12 | Japan | 319,300 t | 2024 | down 12.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Malawi | 247,670 t | 2024 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 14 | Rwanda | 160,592 t | 2024 | up 48.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Nepal | 135,399 t | 2024 | up 45.6% | volatile |
| 16 | United Republic of Tanzania | 128,783 t | 2024 | down 11.8% | volatile |
| 17 | Myanmar | 121,765 t | 2024 | up 23.5% | volatile |
| 18 | USSR | 119,700 t | 1991 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 19 | Thailand | 106,643 t | 2024 | up 164.5% | volatile |
| 20 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 79,997 t | 2024 | up 10.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Ethiopia | 76,731 t | 2024 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 22 | Zimbabwe | 54,274 t | 2024 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Burundi | 52,047 t | 2024 | down 3.4% | volatile |
| 24 | China, Taiwan Province of | 38,000 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | volatile |
| 25 | Melanesia | 32,399 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Papua New Guinea | 32,399 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 27 | Cameroon | 24,684 t | 2024 | up 14.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 18,400 t | 2024 | up 131.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Republic of Korea | 18,400 t | 2024 | up 56.1% | volatile |
| 30 | Malaysia | 14,667 t | 2024 | up 23.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Ecuador | 10,235 t | 2024 | up 2.3% | volatile |
| 32 | Mozambique | 8,129 t | 2024 | down 71.8% | volatile |
| 33 | Mauritius | 6,018 t | 2024 | down 24.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Georgia | 2,600 t | 2024 | up 44.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Peru | 2,030 t | 2024 | down 47.6% | volatile |
| 36 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,014 t | 2024 | up 21.6% | volatile |
| 37 | Brazil | 2,011 t | 2024 | down 67.1% | volatile |
| 38 | Azerbaijan | 1,202 t | 2024 | up 153.6% | volatile |
| 39 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,201 t | 2024 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 40 | Zambia | 971.46 t | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 41 | El Salvador | 672.73 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Ethiopia PDR | 600 t | 1992 | up 270.4% | volatile |
| 43 | Guatemala | 539.21 t | 2024 | up 2.5% | volatile |
| 44 | Madagascar | 397.07 t | 2024 | up 3.5% | volatile |
| 45 | Colombia | 225.75 t | 2024 | up 56.8% | rising |
| 46 | Russian Federation | 131.86 t | 2024 | down 40.7% | volatile |
| 47 | Montenegro | 100 t | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 48 | Mali | 90.75 t | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 49 | Portugal | 78.27 t | 2017 | down 37.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Seychelles | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Panama | 0 t | 2014 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 32.73 million t
- Asia 28.45 million t
- Eastern Asia 16.64 million t
- Southern Asia 8.32 million t
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 6.02 million t
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4.00 million t
- Africa 3.87 million t
- Eastern Africa 3.84 million t
- South-eastern Asia 2.07 million t
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1.81 million t
- Western Asia 1.42 million t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1.16 million 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.