Opium Statistics

Tea and Opium Trade Statistics

British tea purchases from China:

1700-25
1760
1800
1808


400,000 pounds
2,600,000 pounds
23,300,000 pounds
26,000,000 pounds

Chinese Opium Imports:



year

1729
1767
1800-20
1820-30
1832
1838-39




Chests from India

200
1,000
4,500
10,000
23,570
40,000