![]() ![]() China also topped the world's tea production, making 2.8 million tons of tea in 2019, and in that year more than half of the tea produced in China was green tea, according to statista statistics. Other major tea exporters in the same year included Sri Lanka and Kenya. In 2021, China exported nearly US$2.30 billion of tea, making it the leading exporter of tea worldwide. According to legend, a Chinese emperor was sitting under a Camellia sinensis tree while his servant was boiling drinking water, the wind pushed some leaves from the tree into the water, and the emperor decided to try the drink that his servant made by accident. It is believed that this aromatic drink originated in China in 2737 BC. In 2020, global consumption of tea reached about 6.3 billion kilograms, and it is estimated that it will reach 7.4 billion kilograms by 2025, and this includes different types of tea whose degree depends on oxidation levels, including green, yellow, brown and black, according to estimates by the statistics and market figures site Statista. ![]() ![]() According to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after water. Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world after water, according to a report by the United Nations. Tea is the most consumed drink in the world after water In this report we take a tour of the interesting figures and information about the consumption of hot drinks around the world. Coffee or tea? It seems to be a long and ongoing debate about the most popular hot drink, and regardless of our personal preferences or the most consumed drink in our country, in whose interest will this debate be settled? Will coffee or tea be the most popular hot drink in the world?Īlthough it is difficult to provide an accurate percentage of tea and coffee consumption globally, as it can vary depending on the source of data, the time period studied and other factors, we tried in the report to obtain time-close statistics for both coffee and tea from a single statistics site, to be closer to accurate. ![]()
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