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Coffee Facts And Figures
Coffee as we know it, is very important both in the commercial world as well as the economic world and comes in second place of importance to oil in the worldwide market of daily used products. Every day over 100 million cups of coffee are drunken, and the coffee industry has over 20 million employees.
In 1983 the total coffee production worldwide was of 96,875,000 sacks of 60 kilograms of green beans, out of which, 72,484,000 were Arabic, and 22,391,000 were Robust. Brazil continues to be, by far, the biggest producer with 29,400,000 sacks, followed by Colombia at 13,500,000. Great Britain alone imported 2,522,000 of green beans, at a cost of 3,527,836 American dollars.
The highest consumption per capita is by far, Scandinavia, with Finland at the top of the list in 1992 with 12.77 kilograms per person and year, followed by Sweden with 111.73, Denmark with 11,46, and Norway with 10,51, which means about 2.49 kilograms above Austria with 7.92. The consumption in France was of 5.94 per person, in the United States 4.77 and in Italy 4.36.
Great Britain has one of the lowest consumptions, with 2.46 kilograms per person and year, but this figure constitutes an increase to that of 1975 when it was 2.16 kilograms. This ends up being 2.23 cups of a day per person over the age of 15 years. If you take into account that 30 percent of the population rarely drink coffee, this figure would rise to 3.15 cups a day. The highest consumption rate is of people that are between 30 and 39 years of age.
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