A History of Assam c24.23

c24.23

Owing largely to the fall in price, the consumption of tea in Great Britain and Ireland rose from barely 100 million pounds, or three-and-a-half pounds per head of the population in 1866, to 255 million pounds, or six pounds per head, in 1903. In 1919 the consumption was eight-and-a-half pounds per head. The attempts made by the Indian and Ceylon planters to capture new markets have raised their sales of tea outside the United Kingdom from 39 million pounds in 1895 to 140 million in 1923.