China is far and away the largest consumer of tea, at 1.6 billion pounds a year. But per person Turkey, Ireland, and the United Kingdom are home to the world's biggest tea drinkers it is a surprise that turkey are the number one tea consumer per person in the world as the British are famously known for drinking a lot of tea

Major tea producing counties in the world


turkey 156,269
south Africa 57,000
India 703,931
Kenya 188,072
sri lanka 178,870
Bangladesh 48,268
Indonesia 145,685
china 559,827
japan92,103
former ussr 55,000

georaphy of tea

It is thought that the first cup of tea was made in 2737 B.C. by accident when dried leaves landed in a boiling cup of water served to the Chinese  Emperor Shen Nung