Tea leaves — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Tea leaves — Yield was 11,765 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Tea leaves — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, tea leaves — yield in Kenya stood at 11,765 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 4.0% on the previous year and up 23.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tea leaves — yield in Kenya peaked at 11,765 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 711.9 kg/ha, in 1961.
Kenya ranks 4th of 51 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 846.82 kg/ha | 711.9 kg/ha | 987.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,063 kg/ha | 836.2 kg/ha | 1,336 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,559 kg/ha | 1,153 kg/ha | 2,065 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,348 kg/ha | 2,031 kg/ha | 10,780 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,658 kg/ha | 8,531 kg/ha | 10,772 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,866 kg/ha | 7,405 kg/ha | 10,092 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,242 kg/ha | 10,710 kg/ha | 11,765 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tea leaves — yield in Kenya?
- Tea leaves — yield in Kenya was 11,765 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tea leaves — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 11,765 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tea leaves — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 711.9 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for tea leaves — yield?
- Kenya ranks 4th out of 51 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tea leaves — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Kenya data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tea leaves — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.