6,300 servings of tea

by Daniel Wu

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/tea-consumption-per-capita/

​If someone asked you, “what country consumes the most tea?” Some obvious answers you may think of are China, or the United Kingdom. But what about Paraguay? As of 2017 Paraguay consumes 12.22kg of tea per capita per year while China doesn’t even make it into the top twenty, consuming only 0.92kg per capita. But this is still a lot of tea, about two ounces of tea leaves can brew up to thirty servings which means that the average Chinese citizen consumes about 525 servings of tea each year and the average person in Paraguay consumes about 6,300 servings of tea each year. That’s 17 servings of tea each day!

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