Coffee Consumption by Country in 2023 and How It Changed Since 2010

Coffea arabica is native to the highland forests of Ethiopia’s Kaffa region, likely the source of the word coffee itself. Legend credits a goatherd named Kaldi with discovering the plant, sometime around 850 CE, after his goats grew unusually energetic from eating its berries. That account was not written down until 1671, so it belongs more to folklore than documented history. What is confirmed is that by the 15th century, coffee was cultivated and brewed as a beverage in Yemen, where Sufi mystics used it to stay alert through nighttime prayer.

Coffeehouses spread through Mecca, Cairo, and Constantinople over the following two centuries, then reached Europe by the 1600s, where they became gathering places for merchants, writers, and early scientists. European colonial powers carried cultivation far beyond Yemen, first to Java under the Dutch and later across the Americas, until Brazil emerged as the world’s dominant producer by the 20th century.

I created the maps below using FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets, which cover 175 countries between 2010 and 2023. FAO records coffee using primary equivalent weights, and for coffee that primary product is green coffee, meaning dried, cleaned beans before roasting. Instant, roasted, and ready to drink coffee are all folded back into this green bean equivalent for comparison across countries.

Total Consumption

Coffee Consumption by Country: 2010 vs 2023

Global coffee supply grew from 8,612 thousand tonnes in 2010 to 11,576 thousand tonnes in 2023, a rise of about 34 percent, a far gentler curve than tea followed over the same years. The United States remained the largest market throughout, growing modestly from 1,338 to 1,431 thousand tonnes. Brazil, already the world’s top coffee producer, more than doubled its own supply from 480 to 1,061 thousand tonnes. China’s coffee market grew faster than any other large country, from 98 to 678 thousand tonnes, as coffee chains multiplied across its cities. The Philippines climbed from 236 to 489 thousand tonnes, and the United Kingdom grew from 190 to 343 thousand tonnes.

A number of established European markets moved the other direction. Germany dropped from 483 to 449 thousand tonnes. Italy fell from 389 to 363 thousand tonnes, and France from 357 to 346 thousand tonnes. Russia’s supply fell from 664 to 186 thousand tonnes, a decline the data most likely overstates in scale, though the underlying direction lines up with real disruption to Russian coffee imports following 2022.

Country	2010 (1,000 t)	2023 (1,000 t)	Change
United States	1,338	1,431	7.00%
Brazil	480	1,061	121.00%
China	98	678	591.80%
Philippines	236	489	107.20%
Germany	483	449	−7.0%
Vietnam	0	387	N/A
Italy	389	363	−6.7%
France	357	346	−3.1%
United Kingdom	190	343	80.50%
Ethiopia	139	295	112.20%
Canada	258	269	4.30%
Russia	664	186	−72.0%
Saudi Arabia	111	179	61.30%
Spain	192	174	−9.4%
Laos	66	173	162.10%
Peru	32	172	437.50%
Romania	58	166	186.20%
Türkiye	87	159	82.80%
Australia	105	155	47.60%
Guinea	11	144	1209.10%
South Korea	73	133	82.20%
Argentina	81	115	42.00%
Sweden	122	115	−5.7%
Mexico	67	107	59.70%
Ukraine	228	106	−53.5%
Greece	131	102	−22.1%
Jordan	46	87	89.10%
Kazakhstan	48	83	72.90%
Poland	93	83	−10.8%
Ireland	27	82	203.70%
Serbia	46	82	78.30%
Indonesia	64	78	21.90%
Colombia	62	75	21.00%
Lebanon	64	75	17.20%
Belgium	62	74	19.40%
Bulgaria	77	72	−6.5%
Netherlands	60	72	20.00%
Denmark	75	69	−8.0%
New Zealand	51	66	29.40%
South Africa	57	64	12.30%
Algeria	77	63	−18.2%
Egypt	26	63	142.30%
Guatemala	21	62	195.20%
Finland	74	60	−18.9%
Venezuela	94	59	−37.2%
Iran	57	58	1.80%
Norway	57	58	1.80%
Portugal	55	58	5.50%
Slovakia	58	58	0.00%
Switzerland	56	57	1.80%
Austria	104	56	−46.2%
DR Congo	1	56	5500.00%
Thailand	13	50	284.60%
Georgia	29	48	65.50%
Madagascar	47	48	2.10%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	38	45	18.40%
Morocco	29	45	55.20%
Honduras	7	43	514.30%
Libya	13	43	230.80%
Dominican Republic	20	41	105.00%
Lithuania	43	38	−11.6%
Papua New Guinea	5	37	640.00%
Croatia	33	36	9.10%
Cambodia	3	35	1066.70%
Uzbekistan	0	34	N/A
Israel	32	33	3.10%
Costa Rica	20	31	55.00%
Iraq	1	30	2900.00%
Qatar	0	29	N/A
Yemen	19	29	52.60%
Chile	10	28	180.00%
Kuwait	18	28	55.60%
Bolivia	23	27	17.40%
Myanmar	62	27	−56.5%
Nigeria	5	26	420.00%
Moldova	15	25	66.70%
Armenia	16	24	50.00%
Kyrgyzstan	9	23	155.60%
Latvia	23	23	0.00%
Tunisia	26	23	−11.5%
Azerbaijan	10	22	120.00%
Slovenia	24	22	−8.3%
Czechia	24	21	−12.5%
Estonia	18	21	16.70%
Syria	32	21	−34.4%
Angola	10	20	100.00%
Panama	10	20	100.00%
Hungary	6	19	216.70%
North Macedonia	14	19	35.70%
Oman	12	19	58.30%
Timor-Leste	13	17	30.80%
Cyprus	14	16	14.30%
El Salvador	13	16	23.10%
Senegal	3	14	366.70%
Cameroon	16	13	−18.8%
Luxembourg	14	13	−7.1%
Belarus	31	12	−61.3%
Maldives	8	11	37.50%
Albania	9	10	11.10%
Bahrain	0	10	N/A
Kenya	1	10	900.00%
Malawi	3	10	233.30%
World total	8,612	11,576	34.40%

Coffee Consumption by Country (Cartogram): 2010 vs 2023

Per Capita Consumption

Per person, the map looks different again. Laos supplies more coffee per resident than almost anywhere else, 22.59 kg (49.8 lbs) in 2023, up from 10.37 kg (22.9 lbs) in 2010. The Maldives holds a similarly high figure, 20.72 kg (45.7 lbs), largely reflecting its small population and an import-dependent, tourism-heavy economy. Ireland’s per capita figure nearly tripled, from 5.98 kg (13.2 lbs) to 15.79 kg (34.8 lbs), part of the same shift toward coffee that has been eating into the country’s tea habit. The United States, the largest market by total volume, actually declined slightly per person, from 4.30 kg (9.5 lbs) to 4.17 kg (9.2 lbs), even as its total supply grew. Türkiye’s per capita figure rose from 1.18 kg (2.6 lbs) to 1.82 kg (4.0 lbs), a much smaller shift than the country’s leap in tea drinking over the same period.

Coffee Consumption per capita by country: 2010 vs 2023

Country	2010 (kg/cap)	2023 (kg/cap)	Change
Marshall Islands	0	23.26	N/A
Laos	10.37	22.59	117.80%
Maldives	20.93	20.72	−1.0%
Luxembourg	28.12	18.98	−32.5%
Ireland	5.98	15.79	164.00%
Estonia	13.46	15.68	16.50%
Antigua and Barbuda	1.81	14.44	697.80%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.93	14.26	43.60%
Lithuania	13.92	13.4	−3.7%
Lebanon	12.76	12.91	1.20%
New Zealand	11.74	12.81	9.10%
Timor-Leste	12.03	12.58	4.60%
Georgia	7.5	12.52	66.90%
Latvia	10.85	12.17	12.20%
Serbia	6.24	12.15	94.70%
Cyprus	12.22	12.05	−1.4%
Denmark	13.43	11.68	−13.0%
Solomon Islands*	2.51	11.59	361.80%
Malta	13.33	10.96	−17.8%
Sweden	12.96	10.9	−15.9%
Finland	13.78	10.76	−21.9%
Bulgaria	10.37	10.63	2.50%
Norway	11.56	10.58	−8.5%
Slovakia	10.66	10.57	−0.8%
Barbados	7.08	10.55	49.00%
Slovenia	11.5	10.43	−9.3%
North Macedonia	6.58	10.13	54.00%
Guinea	1.03	9.97	868.00%
Greece	11.76	9.96	−15.3%
Qatar	0	9.8	N/A
Moldova	4.64	9.69	108.80%
Guyana	3.31	9.61	190.30%
Croatia	7.58	9.16	20.80%
Montenegro	22.25	9.02	−59.5%
Romania	2.82	8.68	207.80%
Armenia	5.41	8.25	52.50%
Iceland	7.89	7.93	0.50%
Fiji	0.57	7.73	1256.10%
Seychelles	1.37	7.73	464.20%
Jordan	6.37	7.57	18.80%
Canada	7.54	6.84	−9.3%
Bahrain	0	6.66	N/A
Switzerland	7.1	6.43	−9.4%
Belgium	5.68	6.3	10.90%
Austria	12.41	6.18	−50.2%
Bahamas	4.72	6.15	30.30%
Italy	6.46	6.11	−5.4%
Costa Rica	4.47	6.1	36.50%
Libya	2.06	5.94	188.30%
Australia	4.75	5.88	23.80%
Kuwait	6.15	5.81	−5.5%
Portugal	5.22	5.6	7.30%
Saudi Arabia	4.39	5.39	22.80%
Peru	1.11	5.09	358.60%
Brazil	2.48	5.03	102.80%
United Kingdom	3.02	4.99	65.20%
Panama	2.87	4.41	53.70%
Mauritius	2.71	4.4	62.40%
Vanuatu	2.59	4.35	68.00%
Philippines	2.45	4.26	73.90%
United States	4.3	4.17	−3.0%
Kazakhstan	2.86	4.1	43.40%
Honduras	0.86	4.05	370.90%
Netherlands	3.57	3.99	11.80%
Vietnam	0	3.86	N/A
Oman	4.24	3.8	−10.4%
Spain	4.1	3.64	−11.2%
Papua New Guinea	0.61	3.59	488.50%
Guatemala	1.44	3.43	138.20%
Kyrgyzstan	1.55	3.31	113.50%
South Korea	1.49	2.58	73.20%
Argentina	1.96	2.51	28.10%
El Salvador	2.19	2.5	14.20%
Ethiopia	1.54	2.3	49.40%
Bolivia	2.29	2.22	−3.1%
Azerbaijan	1.04	2.15	106.70%
Poland	2.43	2.13	−12.3%
Venezuela	3.25	2.09	−35.7%
Cambodia	0.2	2.03	915.00%

Coffee Consumption per capita by country (Cartogram): 2010 vs 2023

Much of China’s coffee boom traces to one company’s rapid expansion. Luckin Coffee grew from a single store in 2017 to more than 10,000 locations by mid-2023, overtaking Starbucks in Chinese sales that same year. Overall coffee consumption in China rose 15 percent in 2023 alone. Vietnam’s growth follows a related but distinct path. Already the world’s second largest coffee producer, the country has increasingly kept more of its own crop at home as urbanization and a growing middle class have built a genuine domestic cafe culture. The United Kingdom’s rise fits into a broader shift already visible in the tea data. A 2023 consumer survey found more Britons now drink coffee regularly than tea for the first time on record. Germany, Italy, and France, all mature markets with coffee cultures far older than China’s or Vietnam’s, moved only slightly, the kind of small decline typical of a market with little room left to grow.