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 53 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 24,684 t, and the mean is 927,857 t.
Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 18 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 |
| 3 | Türkiye | 1.41 million t | 2024 | up 11.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Kenya | 2.69 million t | 2024 | up 38.9% | volatile |
| 4 | Viet Nam | 1.15 million t | 2024 | up 17.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 1.51 million t | 2024 | down 16.4% | volatile |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 128,783 t | 2024 | down 11.8% | volatile |
| 6 | Indonesia | 658,000 t | 2024 | down 1.9% | volatile |
| 6 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 79,997 t | 2024 | up 10.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 437,652 t | 2024 | up 58.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Uganda | 414,945 t | 2024 | up 46.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Melanesia | 32,399 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Argentina | 356,753 t | 2024 | down 1.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Japan | 319,300 t | 2024 | down 12.0% | volatile |
| 10 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 18,400 t | 2024 | up 131.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Malawi | 247,670 t | 2024 | up 25.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,014 t | 2024 | up 21.6% | volatile |
| 12 | Rwanda | 160,592 t | 2024 | up 48.7% | volatile |
| 12 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,201 t | 2024 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 13 | Nepal | 135,399 t | 2024 | up 45.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Myanmar | 121,765 t | 2024 | up 23.5% | volatile |
| 15 | USSR | 119,700 t | 1991 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 16 | Thailand | 106,643 t | 2024 | up 164.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Ethiopia | 76,731 t | 2024 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 54,274 t | 2024 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Burundi | 52,047 t | 2024 | down 3.4% | volatile |
| 20 | China, Taiwan Province of | 38,000 t | 2024 | up 1.6% | volatile |
| 21 | Papua New Guinea | 32,399 t | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Cameroon | 24,684 t | 2024 | up 14.1% | volatile |
| 23 | Republic of Korea | 18,400 t | 2024 | up 56.1% | volatile |
| 24 | Malaysia | 14,667 t | 2024 | up 23.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Ecuador | 10,235 t | 2024 | up 2.3% | volatile |
| 26 | Mozambique | 8,129 t | 2024 | down 71.8% | volatile |
| 27 | Mauritius | 6,018 t | 2024 | down 24.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Georgia | 2,600 t | 2024 | up 44.4% | volatile |
| 29 | Peru | 2,030 t | 2024 | down 47.6% | volatile |
| 30 | Brazil | 2,011 t | 2024 | down 67.1% | volatile |
| 31 | South Africa | 1,796 t | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Azerbaijan | 1,202 t | 2024 | up 153.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Zambia | 971.46 t | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 34 | El Salvador | 672.73 t | 2024 | up 4.2% | volatile |
| 35 | Réunion | 601 t | 2006 | up 39.4% | rising |
| 36 | Ethiopia PDR | 600 t | 1992 | up 270.4% | volatile |
| 37 | Guatemala | 539.21 t | 2024 | up 2.5% | volatile |
| 38 | Madagascar | 397.07 t | 2024 | up 3.5% | volatile |
| 39 | Colombia | 225.75 t | 2024 | up 56.8% | rising |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 131.86 t | 2024 | down 40.7% | volatile |
| 41 | Montenegro | 100 t | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 42 | Mali | 90.75 t | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Portugal | 78.27 t | 2017 | down 37.4% | volatile |
| 44 | Seychelles | 0 t | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 44 | 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
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1.81 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
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 38,417 t
- South-Eastern Asia 2.07 million t
- Western Asia 1.42 million t
- Middle Africa 26,698 t
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1.16 million t
- Americas 373,668 t
- South America 372,456 t
- Oceania 32,399 t
- Western Africa 4,891 t
- Southern Africa 1,796 t
- Central America 1,212 t
- Europe 231.86 t
- Eastern Europe 131.86 t
- Southern Europe 100 t
- European Union (27) 78.27 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.