How many cups of tea are drunk in the UK each day?

Food medium Data from 2023

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Answer in cups. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

100,000,000 cups

Roughly 100M.

Britons drink around 100 million cups of tea a day, roughly 1.5 per person. Tea only became a mass drink in Britain in the 1700s, and it did so on the back of the same colonial trade routes that made sugar cheap enough to put in it.

Where this number comes from

Source UK Tea & Infusions Association
Figure refers to 2023
Last checked
Unit cups

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