List of countries by tea consumption per capita

Rize tea, the traditional Turkish black tea

Map of the top tea consuming countries per capita (kg)

Masala chai the tradition from the Indian subcontinent

The visible white hairs are a unique characteristic of the Bai Hao Yinzhen tea.

A cup of Earl Grey tea

Tea kettle over hot coals

Traditional Emirati Tea

Black tea in a Meissen pink-rose tea cup

A Moroccan tea set

Green tea steeping in a gaiwan

A glass of iced tea

First flush Darjeeling tea in cup

A cup of Japanese Hojicha

An English tea set

Cup of Black tea

This is a list of countries ordered by annual per capita consumption of tea, as of 2014.^[1][2][3]

Tea

Rank	Country	Tea consumption
1	Turkey	7.54 kg (266 oz)
2	Morocco	4.34 kg (153 oz)
3	Ireland	3.22 kg (114 oz)
4	Mauritania	3.22 kg (114 oz)
5	United Kingdom	2.79 kg (98 oz)
6	Seychelles	2.08 kg (73 oz)
7	United Arab Emirates	1.89 kg (67 oz)
8	Kuwait	1.61 kg (57 oz)
9	Qatar	1.60 kg (56 oz)
10	Kazakhstan	1.54 kg (54 oz)
11	Malta	1.45 kg (51 oz)
12	Hong Kong	1.42 kg (50 oz)
13	Bahamas	1.35 kg (48 oz)
14	Syria	1.29 kg (46 oz)
15	Russia	1.21 kg (43 oz)
16	Gambia	1.19 kg (42 oz)
17	Guyana	1.18 kg (42 oz)
18	Botswana	1.13 kg (40 oz)
19	Aruba	1.10 kg (39 oz)
20	Iran	1.07 kg (38 oz)
21	Zimbabwe	1.05 kg (37 oz)
22	Chile	1.02 kg (36 oz)
23	Macau	1.01 kg (36 oz)
24	Pakistan	1.01 kg (36 oz)
25	Japan	0.99 kg (35 oz)
26	Bahrain	0.98 kg (35 oz)
27	Georgia	0.95 kg (34 oz)
28	Egypt	0.93 kg (33 oz)
29	Thailand	0.93 kg (33 oz)
30	Mongolia	0.93 kg (33 oz)
31	Tunisia	0.92 kg (32 oz)
32	Poland	0.87 kg (31 oz)
33	Uzbekistan	0.86 kg (30 oz)
34	Turkmenistan	0.82 kg (29 oz)
35	China	0.82 kg (29 oz)
36	Barbados	0.81 kg (29 oz)
37	New Caledonia	0.81 kg (29 oz)
38	Malaysia	0.80 kg (28 oz)
39	Mozambique	0.75 kg (26 oz)
40	Fiji	0.74 kg (26 oz)
41	Saudi Arabia	0.72 kg (25 oz)
42	Kyrgyzstan	0.72 kg (25 oz)
43	Netherlands	0.71 kg (25 oz)
44	India	0.701 kg (24.7 oz)[4]
45	Jordan	0.70 kg (25 oz)
46	Burma	0.67 kg (24 oz)
47	New Zealand	0.65 kg (23 oz)
48	Singapore	0.62 kg (22 oz)
49	Swaziland	0.60 kg (21 oz)
50	Ukraine	0.58 kg (20 oz)
51	Brunei	0.58 kg (20 oz)
52	Yemen	0.57 kg (20 oz)
53	Sudan	0.57 kg (20 oz)
-	World	0.57 kg (20 oz)
54	Lebanon	0.56 kg (20 oz)
55	Sri Lanka	0.52 kg (18 oz)
56	Australia	0.51 kg (18 oz)
57	South Africa	0.51 kg (18 oz)
58	Mali	0.50 kg (18 oz)
-	European Union	0.48 kg (17 oz)
59	Kenya	0.47 kg (17 oz)
60	Belarus	0.47 kg (17 oz)
61	Senegal	0.46 kg (16 oz)
62	Estonia	0.43 kg (15 oz)
63	Canada	0.41 kg (14 oz)
64	Sweden	0.40 kg (14 oz)
65	Latvia	0.38 kg (13 oz)
66	Malawi	0.36 kg (13 oz)
67	Cyprus	0.36 kg (13 oz)
68	Somalia	0.36 kg (13 oz)
69	Bangladesh	0.34 kg (12 oz)
70	United States	0.33 kg (12 oz)
71	Cameroon	0.32 kg (11 oz)
72	Algeria	0.98 kg (35 oz)
73	Indonesia	0.32 kg (11 oz)
74	Trinidad and Tobago	0.30 kg (11 oz)
75	Tajikistan	0.30 kg (11 oz)
76	Dominica	0.29 kg (10 oz)
77	Lithuania	0.29 kg (10 oz)
78	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.27 kg (9.5 oz)
79	Jamaica	0.26 kg (9.2 oz)
80	Nepal	0.25 kg (8.8 oz)
81	Czech Republic	0.25 kg (8.8 oz)
82	Macedonia	0.25 kg (8.8 oz)
83	Grenada	0.25 kg (8.8 oz)
84	Denmark	0.23 kg (8.1 oz)
85	Germany	0.23 kg (8.1 oz)
86	Switzerland	0.22 kg (7.8 oz)
87	Finland	0.22 kg (7.8 oz)
88	Norway	0.22 kg (7.8 oz)
89	France	0.21 kg (7.4 oz)
90	Azerbaijan	0.21 kg (7.4 oz)
91	Belize	0.21 kg (7.4 oz)
92	Moldova	0.21 kg (7.4 oz)
93	Iceland	0.19 kg (6.7 oz)
94	Namibia	0.16 kg (5.6 oz)
95	Niger	0.16 kg (5.6 oz)
96	Slovakia	0.16 kg (5.6 oz)
97	Israel	0.15 kg (5.3 oz)
98	Rwanda	0.14 kg (4.9 oz)
99	Belgium	0.14 kg (4.9 oz)
100	Greece	0.14 kg (4.9 oz)
101	Uganda	0.13 kg (4.6 oz)
102	Luxembourg	0.13 kg (4.6 oz)
103	Burkina Faso	0.13 kg (4.6 oz)
104	Uruguay	0.13 kg (4.6 oz)
105	Bolivia	0.13 kg (4.6 oz)
106	Ecuador	0.12 kg (4.2 oz)
107	Libya	0.12 kg (4.2 oz)
108	Panama	0.12 kg (4.2 oz)
109	Peru	0.13 kg (4.6 oz)
110	Saint Lucia	0.11 kg (3.9 oz)
111	Zambia	0.10 kg (3.5 oz)
112	Italy	0.10 kg (3.5 oz)
113	Austria	0.10 kg (3.5 oz)
114	Argentina	0.10 kg (3.5 oz)
115	Portugal	0.092 kg (3.2 oz)
116	Cambodia	0.083 kg (2.9 oz)
117	Tonga	0.077 kg (2.7 oz)
118	Gabon	0.076 kg (2.7 oz)
119	Cape Verde	0.067 kg (2.4 oz)
120	Armenia	0.066 kg (2.3 oz)
121	South Korea	0.066 kg (2.3 oz)
122	Hungary	0.065 kg (2.3 oz)
123	Costa Rica	0.063 kg (2.2 oz)
124	Ethiopia	0.058 kg (2.0 oz)
125	Togo	0.058 kg (2.0 oz)
126	Ghana	0.056 kg (2.0 oz)
127	Spain	0.055 kg (1.9 oz)
128	Ivory Coast	0.055 kg (1.9 oz)
129	Bhutan	0.055 kg (1.9 oz)
130	Bulgaria	0.051 kg (1.8 oz)
131	Papua New Guinea	0.044 kg (1.6 oz)
132	Slovenia	0.039 kg (1.4 oz)
133	Tanzania	0.037 kg (1.3 oz)
134	Guatemala	0.035 kg (1.2 oz)
135	Burundi	0.033 kg (1.2 oz)
136	Angola	0.032 kg (1.1 oz)
137	Romania	0.030 kg (1.1 oz)
138	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.028 kg (0.99 oz)
139	Croatia	0.027 kg (0.95 oz)
140	Honduras	0.027 kg (0.95 oz)
141	Serbia	0.023 kg (0.81 oz)
142	Nigeria	0.023 kg (0.81 oz)
143	Brazil	0.018 kg (0.63 oz)
144	Philippines	0.014 kg (0.49 oz)
145	Madagascar	0.013 kg (0.46 oz)
146	Albania	0.013 kg (0.46 oz)
147	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.011 kg (0.39 oz)
148	Venezuela	0.0076 kg (0.27 oz)
149	Montenegro	0.0064 kg (0.23 oz)
150	Congo	0.0052 kg (0.18 oz)
151	Colombia	0.0044 kg (0.16 oz)
152	Mexico	0.0033 kg (0.12 oz)
153	Comoros	0.0027 kg (0.095 oz)
154	Nicaragua	0.0026 kg (0.092 oz)
155	Chad	0.0016 kg (0.056 oz)
156	Central African Republic	0.00045 kg (0.016 oz)
157	South Sudan	0.00010 kg (0.0035 oz)

Tea including mate (2011)

Source:^[5]

No. (rank) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172

Country Consumption per capita (kg/capita/year)  Paraguay 12.22  Uruguay 9.66  Argentina 6.05  Kenya 3.24  Gambia 3.22  Djibouti 3.20  Kuwait 3.20  Turkey 3.11  Mauritania 2.63  Malta 2.24  Afghanistan 2.17  United Kingdom 2.06  Morocco 2.00  Brazil 1.99  Macao 1.97  Ireland 1.88  Taiwan 1.85  Iran 1.83  Kazakhstan 1.81  Chile 1.61  Hong Kong 1.48  Mauritius 1.46  Mongolia 1.39  Antigua and Barbuda 1.38  Azerbaijan 1.37  Russia 1.29  Egypt 1.21  Saudi Arabia 1.16  Brunei 1.15  Mozambique 1.15  Malaysia 1.14  Thailand 1.13  Oman 1.04  Latvia 1.01  Netherlands 0.98  Japan 0.97  Botswana 0.94  China 0.92  Poland 0.92  Sri Lanka 0.86  Tunisia 0.86  Tajikistan 0.84  Maldives 0.83  Vietnam 0.81  Iraq 0.79  Jordan 0.79  Barbados 0.76  Suriname 0.75  Lebanon 0.74  Uzbekistan 0.73  Bermuda 0.68  Guinea 0.68  Kyrgyzstan 0.67  Fiji 0.66  Pakistan 0.66  Turkmenistan 0.65  Yemen 0.65  India 0.64  Myanmar 0.62  New Caledonia 0.62  United Arab Emirates 0.58  Ukraine 0.56  Australia 0.54  Germany 0.54  Zimbabwe 0.54  United States 0.53  Mali 0.50  Niger 0.50  Canada 0.49  Iceland 0.47  Luxembourg 0.47  Belarus 0.46  South Africa 0.45  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.43  Algeria 0.42  Estonia 0.42  Sweden 0.41  Bangladesh 0.40  Greece 0.40  Guyana 0.40  Lithuania 0.40  Malawi 0.40  Bahamas 0.38  Grenada 0.38  Senegal 0.38  Cyprus 0.37  Indonesia 0.37  Georgia 0.33    Nepal 0.33  New Zealand 0.32  Finland 0.31  Denmark 0.30   Switzerland 0.30  Macedonia 0.30  Norway 0.29  Rwanda 0.29  Belize 0.27  Bolivia 0.27  France 0.27  Kiribati 0.26  Panama 0.26  Vanuatu 0.26  Israel 0.25  Republic of Moldova 0.25  Czech Republic 0.23  Trinidad and Tobago 0.23  Cameroon 0.22  Austria 0.21  Solomon Islands 0.21  Belgium 0.20  Saint Lucia 0.20  Montenegro 0.19  Samoa 0.19  Slovakia 0.18  French Polynesia 0.16  Armenia 0.15  Burkina Faso 0.15  Romania 0.15  Ecuador 0.14  Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.14  Slovenia 0.14  Congo 0.13  El Salvador 0.13  Gabon 0.13  Peru 0.13  Zambia 0.12  Albania 0.11  Bulgaria 0.11  Cabo Verde 0.11  Portugal 0.11  Spain 0.11  Italy 0.10  Sao Tome and Principe 0.10  Hungary 0.09  Liberia 0.09  United Republic of Tanzania 0.09  Dominica 0.07  Ethiopia 0.07  Guatemala 0.07  Republic of Korea 0.07  Ghana 0.06  Nicaragua 0.06  Sierra Leone 0.06  Swaziland 0.06  Costa Rica 0.05  Cote d'Ivoire 0.05  Honduras 0.05  Timor-Leste 0.05  Uganda 0.05  Venezuela 0.05  Benin 0.04  Croatia 0.04  Mexico 0.04  Namibia 0.04  Philippines 0.04  Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.04  Angola 0.03  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.02  Chad 0.02  Colombia 0.02  Jamaica 0.02  Madagascar 0.02  Togo 0.02  Cambodia 0.01  Dominican Republic 0.01  Nigeria 0.01  Serbia 0.01  Central African Republic 0.00  Cuba 0.00  Guinea-Bissau 0.00  Haiti 0.00  Lesotho 0.00

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