Tea leaves — Yield in South America
South America: Tea leaves — Yield was 11,087 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Tea leaves — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 11,087 kg/ha for tea leaves — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.2% on the previous year and up 24.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tea leaves — yield in South America peaked at 11,087 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 625.9 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places South America 2nd out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 755.79 kg/ha | 625.9 kg/ha | 829.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 950.93 kg/ha | 734.3 kg/ha | 1,060 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,122 kg/ha | 913.4 kg/ha | 1,337 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,527 kg/ha | 1,359 kg/ha | 6,430 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,000 kg/ha | 7,753 kg/ha | 8,466 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,177 kg/ha | 8,679 kg/ha | 10,116 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,530 kg/ha | 9,560 kg/ha | 11,087 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
More agriculture & rural data for South America
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 75.21 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 69.74 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,181 g/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tea leaves — yield in South America?
- Tea leaves — yield in South America was 11,087 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tea leaves — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 11,087 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tea leaves — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 625.9 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does South America rank for tea leaves — yield?
- South America ranks 2nd out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is tea leaves — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this South America 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.