Biggest Tea Drinking Countries

It's really surprising that China is not higher in the ranking. I lived there six years and my Chinese colleagues were sipping tea whole day. They have their own mug or thermos with them with tea leaves all the time and they keep on filling it up with hot water whenever it's empty. The same thing in Taiwan. But on the other hand Chinese don't drink strong tea. They use the same green tea leaves for long time unlike European black tea drinkers.

Interesting detail is that Chinese don't call English black tea as "black tea", they call it 红茶 Hong Cha, which literally means "red tea", which actually describes the color better. In Chinese there is also a 黑茶 Hei Cha, which means "black tea", but this is different to European black tea. Hei Cha is fermented from several months to many years and it's color is closer to black than European black tea.