Tea drinking statistics
People have been coming to teasite looking for statistics on tea. I love a good statistic. Not much makes me happier. So I thought I’d indulge those of you who have come here via the search engine and furnish you with lovely stats.
Teasite is based in the UK. Or Great Britain. There is a difference. One of them doesn’t include Northern Ireland. Whereas the British Isles includes Eire too. Anyway, I digress.
According to the United Kingdom Tea Council , in the UK, we drink 165 million cups of tea a day. Which is quite a lot, when you think about it. Since there are 60 million of us, that’s 2.5 cups per person. Even those who don’t drink tea. Incidentally, that information is exceptionally hard to find on the UK Tea Council site. But I did it for you.
Now, for worldwide figures we need to go to the Tea Industry Forum. They tell us that the UK accounts for 6% of world tea consumption. Now, let me just get my calculator out.
[pushes virtual buttons]
That means that worldwide, 2,750,000,000 cups of tea are drunk every day. That’s a very big number. It could be over a billion, depending on where you live. But it’s definitely a lot.
Incidentally, Australia, which is essentially still part of the Empire and home to many of the UK’s historical criminal famlies, only represents 0.4% of world tea consumption. Perhaps if they drank a bit less beer and brawled a little less, they’d have time to sit down in a civilised manner with a nice cuppa.
The other place that I might have got statistics from is the International Tea Committee, but since they want in excess of 150 quid a year for what is, presumably, Very Important Information, I’ll have to pass for now.
Until next time, statistic fans. And tea fans.
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