Tea market data
Next to water, tea (Camellia sinensis) is the most widely consumed beverage in the world.
As tea is not commercially grown in the EU – apart from one garden in Cornwall, UK – all tea originates from third countries. In 2018, a total of 228,869.10 t of tea were imported into the EU (EU-28), breaking down to 14.15% green tea (32,384.4 t) and 85.85 % black tea (196,484.7 t). 82.47 % of the total tea imports were supplied to those EU Member States, whose national tea and/or herbal infusions associations hold membership in Tea & Herbal Infusions Europe.
Please find a survey of the sales figures for the past years below. All values are stated in tons.
|
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
Austria |
2.504 |
2.433 |
2.667 |
2.342 |
2.146 |
2.605 |
2.300 |
Denmark |
1.306 |
1.388 |
1.516 |
1.668 |
1.835 |
2.272 |
2.000 |
France |
14.730 |
15.124 |
13.012 |
14.833 |
12.176 |
13.990 |
15.044 |
Germany *) |
18.960 |
19.396 |
19.176 |
19.376 |
19.220 |
19.066 |
18.074 |
Ireland |
6.692 |
7.008 |
7.834 |
7.341 |
7.910 |
8.794 |
9.281 |
Italy |
6.224 |
6.062 |
6.143 |
6.826 |
6.557 |
8.011 |
8.200 |
Netherlands |
7.700 |
7.800 |
7.910 |
8.136 |
7.972 |
8.200 |
8.400 |
Slovakia |
700 |
780 |
690 |
651 |
582 |
476 |
550 |
Switzerland |
1.784 |
1.789 |
1.627 |
1.791 |
1.579 |
1.796 |
1.825 |
United Kingdom |
123.287 |
115.272 |
106.340 |
114.897 |
107.233 |
108.341 |
107.862 |
*) figures as per Annual Bulletin by the German Tea & Herbal Infusions Association
Data kindly provided by: International Tea Committee (ITC) - Detailed market data is compiled by ITC, which offers commercial services on statistics (http://www.inttea.com/)