Overview

• Average per capita tea consumption held at 67.2 liters in 2024, a marginal 1.5 percent decline from the previous year due to inflationary restraint.
• German households brewed roughly 47 billion cups of tea last year.
• The organic segment grew by 2.2 percentage points to represent 17.7 percent of total tea sales.
• Germany imported nearly 48,000 tons of tea from 84 countries, with India, China and Sri Lanka as the main suppliers.
• Exports of about 21,000 tons reached 106 destinations, and the United States was the largest non-EU market with over 2,600 tons shipped.