Tea leaves — Yield 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 — Yield is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 17,455 kg/ha in Türkiye; the lowest is 60.7 kg/ha in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The median across all reporting countries is 4,985 kg/ha, and the mean is 5,533 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 288.
Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Azerbaijan (up 61.8%), and the largest decrease in Democratic Republic of the Congo (down 61.5%).
Tea leaves — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Türkiye | 17,455 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 2 | Malawi | 12,456 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.2% | volatile |
| 3 | Argentina | 11,944 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.4% | volatile |
| 4 | Kenya | 11,765 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.4% | volatile |
| 5 | Zimbabwe | 11,149 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Ethiopia | 10,755 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 7 | Cameroon | 10,418 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Viet Nam | 10,214 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 9 | India | 10,036 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Brazil | 9,715 kg/ha | 2024 | up 30.7% | volatile |
| 11 | Mauritius | 9,660 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Ecuador | 9,275 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Uganda | 9,269 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Melanesia | 9,144 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | volatile |
| 14 | Papua New Guinea | 9,144 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | volatile |
| 16 | Japan | 9,097 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Malaysia | 8,316 kg/ha | 2024 | up 60.7% | volatile |
| 18 | United Republic of Tanzania | 7,494 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Bangladesh | 7,449 kg/ha | 2024 | up 61.1% | volatile |
| 20 | Nepal | 6,522 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Burundi | 6,489 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | volatile |
| 22 | Indonesia | 6,351 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 23 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 6,031 kg/ha | 2024 | up 55.4% | volatile |
| 24 | Sri Lanka | 5,632 kg/ha | 2024 | down 30.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Republic of Korea | 5,460 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Thailand | 4,985 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.8% | volatile |
| 27 | Rwanda | 4,582 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.9% | volatile |
| 28 | China, mainland | 4,478 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | volatile |
| 29 | China | 4,471 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.4% | volatile |
| 30 | Portugal | 4,424 kg/ha | 2017 | up 41.6% | volatile |
| 31 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 4,346 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 32 | China, Taiwan Province of | 2,768 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.8% | volatile |
| 33 | Colombia | 2,500 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 34 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 2,379 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.6% | volatile |
| 35 | El Salvador | 1,965 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.2% | flat |
| 36 | Azerbaijan | 1,625 kg/ha | 2024 | up 61.8% | volatile |
| 37 | USSR | 1,563 kg/ha | 1991 | down 10.5% | rising |
| 38 | Zambia | 1,415 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 39 | Myanmar | 1,279 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.6% | volatile |
| 40 | Mozambique | 1,125 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.1% | rising |
| 41 | Georgia | 1,050 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | falling |
| 42 | Mali | 1,039 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 43 | Peru | 991.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 42.9% | volatile |
| 44 | Panama | 933.3 kg/ha | 1990 | up 22.8% | rising |
| 45 | Montenegro | 804.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 46 | Russian Federation | 518.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.8% | falling |
| 47 | Guatemala | 471.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | falling |
| 48 | Seychelles | 453.9 kg/ha | 2022 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 49 | Madagascar | 377.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | falling |
| 50 | Ethiopia PDR | 324.3 kg/ha | 1992 | down 9.9% | flat |
| 51 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 60.7 kg/ha | 2024 | down 61.5% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Western Asia 16,833 kg/ha
- South America 11,087 kg/ha
- Americas 10,652 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 10,237 kg/ha
- Africa 9,395 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 9,284 kg/ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 9,221 kg/ha
- Oceania 9,144 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 8,536 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 7,756 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 7,020 kg/ha
- Western Africa 6,724 kg/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.