Tea leaves — Yield in Zambia
Zambia: Tea leaves — Yield was 1,415 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tea leaves — Yield in Zambia, 1974–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zambia recorded 1,415 kg/ha for tea leaves — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 0.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tea leaves — yield in Zambia peaked at 1,500 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 1,000 kg/ha, in 1976.
Zambia ranks 38th of 51 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 51 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,103 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,200 kg/ha | 6 |
| 1980s | 1,128 kg/ha | 1,047 kg/ha | 1,222 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,211 kg/ha | 1,125 kg/ha | 1,413 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,358 kg/ha | 1,100 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,411 kg/ha | 1,385 kg/ha | 1,440 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,410 kg/ha | 1,389 kg/ha | 1,420 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Zambia
- 35 El Salvador 1,965 kg/ha compare
- 36 Azerbaijan 1,625 kg/ha compare
- 37 USSR 1,563 kg/ha compare
- 39 Myanmar 1,279 kg/ha compare
- 40 Mozambique 1,125 kg/ha compare
- 41 Georgia 1,050 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Zambia
- Agriculture share gdp 4.11 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.11 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 54.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.9% (2025)
- Rural population 11.85 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.19 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 683.84 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tea leaves — yield in Zambia?
- Tea leaves — yield in Zambia was 1,415 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tea leaves — yield recorded in Zambia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,500 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest tea leaves — yield recorded in Zambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Zambia rank for tea leaves — yield?
- Zambia ranks 38th out of 51 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tea leaves — yield rising or falling in Zambia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zambia 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.