The 54 best tea-drinking nations in the world

August 03, 2016 1 Comment

If tea-drinking were an Olympic sport, which countries would we see on the podium?

The results might surprise you.

If you look at the average annual tea consumption per person using data from Euromonitor International, publishers of the some of the most comprehensive market research on tea, you can see which nationalities drink the most amount of tea per person.

The world’s biggest tea drinkers

The Turkish – drinking an average of 3.16kg of tea each every year
The Irish – drinking an average of 2.19kg of tea each every year
The UK - drinking an average of 1.94kg of tea each every year

While China is undoubtedly one of the largest consumers of tea given the sheer volume of people who live there, when you look at how much tea each individual within the country drinks per person, they drop to 19^th on the list with around 566 grams consumed per person.

The Kiwis make the top 10 with New Zealanders enjoying 1.19kg of tea per person.

Australian’s rank 13^th on the list consuming around 750 grams per person each year.

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Said Sadath

May 11, 2018

Hi
Great report enjoyed reading it. However I am surprised that Afghanistan is not included, they are the biggest green tea drinkers in the world, consuming 4.8 kg per person per year. But I understand that the researchers could probably not go there because of conflicts.
Cheers Said

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