How many cups of tea are drunk in the UK each day?
Food medium Data from 2023
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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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