| � | | | | Americans consume about 4.4kg (9.8 lbs.) of coffee |
| | | | per capita, per year. |
| The world's second most consumed beverage behind | | | | Fair trade coffee sales grew 104% between 2004 |
| water, coffee is also the world's most traded | | | | and 2007 in North America. Another rise of 100%+ is |
| consumable good. In this article we will take a look at | | | | expected between 2008 and the end of 2010. |
| some interesting statistics involving coffee including | | | | For every $3 latte sold, a conventional farmer |
| its consumption rates and some fair trade/organic | | | | receives about two cents. |
| coffee related statistics. | | | | With roughly 23% of the worldwide market share, |
| Finland drinks the most coffee of any nation in the | | | | Mexico is the world's biggest producer of fair trade |
| world, per capita. The United States comes in at 16th | | | | coffee. In fact, well over 50% of the world's fair |
| place, just after the United Kingdom and just before | | | | trade production occurs in Mexico and South |
| the European Union. However, the United States | | | | American countries. |
| drinks 1/5 of the world's coffee, making it the world's | | | | Canada has seen of the largest growths in fair trade |
| top consumer overall. | | | | coffee consumption. Their annual consumption has |
| The sale of specialty coffee is growing at rate of | | | | grown from 425,000 kilos in 2002, to over 5 million |
| about 20% per year and now accounts for roughly | | | | kilos in 2008. |
| 8% of all coffee sales. Specialty coffee is defined by | | | | The United States is the world's single largest |
| the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) | | | | importer of organic coffee, being responsible for no |
| as being coffee that scores 80 points or higher on | | | | less than 40% of global organic coffee imports. |
| their 100-point scale. | | | | Despite the fact that is the most traded of all fair |
| Coffee drinkers in the United States spend just under | | | | trade goods, as of 2008 fair trade coffee still only |
| 18 billion dollars annually, which averages out to about | | | | made up just over 1% of the entire coffee market. |
| $165 per coffee drinker, per year. | | | | Statistics courtesy of coffeeresearch.org, |
| On average, men drink slightly more coffee (1.9 cups | | | | interscience.wiley.com, and fao.org/. |
| per day) than women (1.4 cups per day). | | | | |