8 Countries that Produce the Most Tea in the World

4. Sri Lanka

Production: 340,230.00 tonnes

Tea production in Sri Lanka is very important as this industry hires a lot of people there, and it accounts for 2% of their GDP. Because of the climate (humidity and rainfall) and soil characteristics, tea produced in Sri Lanka is of high quality. Their tea is more known to the world as Ceylon tea (Sri Lanka – formerly known as Ceylon), and it’s considered as the “cleanest tea in the world in terms pesticide residues“; it was also the first tea labeled as “Ozone friendly“.