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Coffee is the most popular
drink in the world with around half-a-trillion cups
consumed each year.
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The Americas produce about
70% of the world's coffee; Brazil accounts for 30% and Colombia 12%.
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Ethiopia supplies 3% of the
world's requirements.
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25 million people are
employed in the world's coffee industry.
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5 million people are
employed in Brazil's coffee industry.
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12 million people are
employed in Ethiopia's coffee industry.
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The USA is the world's
largest coffee consumer, importing about 1.2 billion kg every year.
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Almost £1 billion was spent
on coffee in the UK last year.
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Brazil has more than 3
billion coffee plants.
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Coffee is the world's
second most valuable commodity after petroleum.
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All commercial coffee is
grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
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More than 50 countries
produce coffee in commercial quantities.
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Coffee harvesting is the
least mechanised of all widely produced agricultural crops.
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Ethiopia has the highest
per capita consumption of coffee in the world.
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Finland has the highest per
capita coffee consumption in Europe, closely followed by Denmark.
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Arabica, Robusta and
Liberia are the three main types of commercially produced coffee bean.
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A bag of coffee (the
standard for international trade) weighs 60 kg or 132 lbs.
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There are 600,000 beans in
a bag of green coffee; 10,000 in a kg; 12,000 in a kg of roasted coffee.
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It takes between 35 - 45
beans to make an espresso.
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Men drink slightly more
coffee than women.
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63% of coffee is drunk with
milk and sugar; 40% is drunk black.
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Instant coffee accounts for
13% of all the coffee drunk in the world.
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57% of coffee is drunk at
breakfast; 34% between meals and 13% at other times.
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The first coffee in Europe
was sold in chemists in 1615 where it was known as Arabian wine.
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Cappuccino is named after
the Capuchin monk's habit because of the resemblance of colour.
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Bach wrote a coffee cantata
in 1732.
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Coffee beans mixed with
other ingredients are eaten in many parts of Africa.
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Coffee is responsible for
about 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the world.
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Europeans first added
chocolate to their coffee in the early 1600s.
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Scandinavia has the world's
highest per capita coffee consumption - 12 kg per year.
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Iced coffee in a can has
been popular in Japan since 1945.
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The human body eliminates
20% of the caffeine in its system every hour.
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The human body is only
capable of absorbing 300 milligrams of caffeine at any one time.
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The average cup of coffee
contains about 150 milligrams of caffeine.
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Regular coffee drinkers
have a much lower rate of asthma.
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Robusta has twice as much
caffeine as Arabica.
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Coffee would be more
expensive than wine if it were taxed in the same way.
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The premium coffee business
in bow a $2 billion industry.
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Espresso coffee contains
2.5% fat; filter coffee contains 0.6%.
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The world's first Internet
Cafe, Cyberia, opened in London in 1994.
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The first American Internet
Cafe, Suba, opened in Chicago in 1995.
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Australia's first Internet
Cafe, Cybernet, opened in Melbourne in 1995.
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In 1998 Internet Cafes
arrived in Iran with separate floors to segregate the sexes.
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In 2000 Himalayan Kingdom
of Bhutan got its first Internet Cafe, one year after its first television.
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The highest Internet Cafe
in the world is at Mount Everest base camp.
