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...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
17,455 kg/ha
Türkiye
Lowest
324.3 kg/ha
Ethiopia PDR
Median
4,582 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,374

What the numbers show

Tea leaves — Yield is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 17,455 kg/ha in Türkiye; the lowest is 324.3 kg/ha in Ethiopia PDR.

The median across all reporting countries is 4,582 kg/ha, and the mean is 5,387 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 54.

Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 16 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Türkiye 17,455 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% volatile
1 Malawi 12,456 kg/ha 2024 up 10.2% volatile
2 Argentina 11,944 kg/ha 2024 up 27.4% volatile
2 Viet Nam 10,214 kg/ha 2024 up 20.0% volatile
3 Kenya 11,765 kg/ha 2024 up 23.4% volatile
4 Zimbabwe 11,149 kg/ha 2024 down 20.6% volatile
4 Melanesia 9,144 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% volatile
5 Ethiopia 10,755 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% flat
5 United Republic of Tanzania 7,494 kg/ha 2024 up 9.5% volatile
6 Cameroon 10,418 kg/ha 2024 down 1.0% volatile
6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 6,031 kg/ha 2024 up 55.4% volatile
7 India 10,036 kg/ha 2024 up 15.5% volatile
8 Brazil 9,715 kg/ha 2024 up 30.7% volatile
9 Mauritius 9,660 kg/ha 2024 down 18.0% volatile
9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,346 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
10 Ecuador 9,275 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% volatile
10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2,379 kg/ha 2024 up 19.6% volatile
11 Uganda 9,269 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% volatile
12 Papua New Guinea 9,144 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% volatile
12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 60.7 kg/ha 2024 down 61.5% volatile
13 Japan 9,097 kg/ha 2024 up 12.3% volatile
14 Malaysia 8,316 kg/ha 2024 up 60.7% volatile
15 Bangladesh 7,449 kg/ha 2024 up 61.1% volatile
16 Nepal 6,522 kg/ha 2024 up 35.1% volatile
17 Burundi 6,489 kg/ha 2024 up 10.5% volatile
18 Indonesia 6,351 kg/ha 2024 up 12.5% volatile
19 Sri Lanka 5,632 kg/ha 2024 down 30.9% volatile
20 Republic of Korea 5,460 kg/ha 2024 up 3.2% volatile
21 Thailand 4,985 kg/ha 2024 up 2.8% volatile
22 Rwanda 4,582 kg/ha 2024 down 26.9% volatile
23 China, mainland 4,478 kg/ha 2024 down 6.5% volatile
24 China 4,471 kg/ha 2024 down 6.4% volatile
25 Portugal 4,424 kg/ha 2017 up 41.6% volatile
26 China, Taiwan Province of 2,768 kg/ha 2024 down 12.8% volatile
27 Colombia 2,500 kg/ha 2024 up 4.2% rising
28 South Africa 1,979 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% rising
29 El Salvador 1,965 kg/ha 2024 up 17.2% flat
30 Azerbaijan 1,625 kg/ha 2024 up 61.8% volatile
31 USSR 1,563 kg/ha 1991 down 10.5% rising
32 Zambia 1,415 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% rising
33 Réunion 1,344 kg/ha 2006 up 2.6% rising
34 Myanmar 1,279 kg/ha 2024 up 8.6% volatile
35 Mozambique 1,125 kg/ha 2024 up 23.1% rising
36 Georgia 1,050 kg/ha 2024 down 3.6% falling
37 Mali 1,039 kg/ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
38 Peru 991.6 kg/ha 2024 down 42.9% volatile
39 Panama 933.3 kg/ha 1990 up 22.8% rising
40 Montenegro 804.2 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% flat
41 Russian Federation 518.9 kg/ha 2024 up 11.8% falling
42 Guatemala 471.5 kg/ha 2024 up 6.5% falling
43 Seychelles 453.9 kg/ha 2022 down 4.3% rising
44 Madagascar 377.4 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% falling
45 Ethiopia PDR 324.3 kg/ha 1992 down 9.9% flat

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 — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 4,374 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.