Tea in China

TEA IP 美 CHINA US-China Today uschina.usc.edu 11% OTHER 1% IRAN 2% ARGENTINA 2% JAPAN 35% CHINA 5% VIETNAM 4% INDONESIA 5% TURKEY 8% KENYA 20% INDIA 7% SRI LANKA 2009 WORLD TEA PRODUCTION TOTAL = 3,950,000,000 kg WORLD VS HNA = 200,000,000 kg OF TEA = CHINA PRODUCTION 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 after water, tea is the most popular drink in the world. TA the total consumption of tea equals more than coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol combined. TEA CONSUMPTION AROUND THE WORLD IN 2010 CHINA 1,100,000,000 kg INDIA PAKISTAN 940,000,000 kg 220,000,000 kg TURKEY RUSSIA UK 210,000,000 kg 180,000,000 kg 130,000,000 kg In 2010, consumed CHINA tea leaves equal in weight to 26 TITANICS 2010 WORLD TEA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA 2.7 2.1 2.7 .95 1.2 0.8 0.8 1.2 kg kg kg kg kg kg kg kg IN NA THE AVERAGE PERSON CONSUMES 4U0 CUPS OF TEA A YEAR WATER CONSUMPTION FOR TEA takes 18.4 liters 4.7 cups of water to make 1 cup of tea of water to produce enough leaves for 1 cup of tea %3D AAAAA it takes 0.3 liters of water to brew 1 cup of tea [ in one year, every person consumes T88 0 cups of water for tea If you lined all the pools in a row, it For the consumption of China's annual 550 billion would stretch from cups of tea, China uses 236,588 Olympic-sized Los Angeles to Hong Kong swimming pools worth of water It would take Michael Phelps 2.5 months to swim the distance TOP 5 there are over 800 different types of Chinese tea TYPES OF TEA IN CHINA CLASSIFIED BY THE METHOD OF PROCESSING green teas are the #1 GREEN TEA least processed of all teas BLACK TEA most tea in China is consumed hot, while 85% of tea in the U.S. is consumed cold or iced OOLONG TEA BRICK TEA the most common type of tea in the U.S. is 2 black tea SCENTED TEA SOURCES USC US-China Institute FAO - UN Food + Agriculture Organization Index Mundi CRI Research 州 大 学 美 中 学 院 china.usc.edu Agra-Net The Economist 南 加 Created By: Amanda Chan IRELAND TURKEY PAKISTAN SRI LANKA INDIA CHINA RUSSIA