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The countries that grow the world's coffee barely drink it. The countries with the least sunlight drink the most.
Wednesday · July 29, 2026
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The 10 Countries That Drink the Most Coffee Per Person

The International Coffee Organization measures national coffee consumption in kilograms per person per year. The ranking is dominated not by the countries that grow coffee, but by the countries with the shortest days and longest winters. Finland, population 5.6 million, leads the world by a wide margin.

1 Finland
 
12.0 kg
2 Norway
   
9.9 kg
3 Iceland
   
9.0 kg
4 Denmark
   
8.7 kg
5 Netherlands
   
8.4 kg
6 Sweden
   
8.2 kg
7 Switzerland
   
7.9 kg
8 Belgium
   
6.8 kg
9 Luxembourg
   
6.5 kg
10 Canada
   
6.5 kg
Gold · #1    7 kg+ per person    Below 7 kg
For Comparison
Brazil 5.8 kg   |   USA 4.2 kg   |   Colombia 2.8 kg   |   World 1.3 kg   |   China 0.2 kg

Source: International Coffee Organization, per capita consumption data (kg/person/year), via WorldAtlas & CoffeeAbout, 2019.

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What's Surprising

The countries that produce the world's coffee barely drink it — at least not per capita. Brazil grows 38% of the global supply and ranks 14th. Colombia, the third-largest producer, sits at 2.8 kg per person. Vietnam, the second-largest producer, doesn't crack the top 25.

Nine of the ten countries on this list are European. Canada is the sole exception. Five of the top six are Nordic nations where winter darkness lasts 18 hours a day. Weather is part of it. But culture matters more. In Finland, coffee breaks — kahvitauko — are written into collective labor agreements, with the exact terms varying by sector. A Finnish adult drinks about four cups a day. That is not a habit. It is an institution.

Iceland, population 390,000, ranks third in the world. There is not a single Starbucks on the island. The entire top three is made up of countries with fewer than 6 million people.

What's Not Surprising

Wealth matters. Every country in the top 10 is a high-income economy. Coffee is cheap by weight but expensive by the cup in European cafés. Denmark charges an average of $5.40 per cup. Switzerland: $5.00. The correlation between GDP per capita and coffee consumption per capita is strong across the full list.

The absence of tea-drinking cultures is also predictable. China sits at 0.2 kg per person. India is lower still. The United Kingdom, despite a growing café scene, ranks in the mid-20s. Japan is similar. Where tea has centuries of cultural infrastructure, coffee has to fight for every gram of market share.

The United States ranks 25th at 4.2 kg per person, despite having more than 16,800 Starbucks locations. Total volume is enormous — the US is the world's largest coffee importer — but spread across 340 million people, the per capita number is modest.

Five Numbers Worth Remembering

12.0 kg

Annual coffee consumption per person in Finland. About four cups a day for every adult in the country.

 

9 of 10

Countries in the top 10 are European. Canada is the only exception on the entire list.

 

25th

Where the United States ranks per capita, despite being the world's largest total coffee market by volume.

 

$4.38

Record high for arabica coffee futures, per pound, reached in October 2025 after Brazil's worst drought in decades.

 

1.3 kg

The global average per capita. Finland consumes more than nine times this amount every year.

The Bottom Line

The coldest, darkest countries on earth drink the most coffee. The countries that grow it barely make the list.

What to Watch

China's coffee consumption is growing at roughly 15% a year. At 0.2 kg per person, even a small per capita move translates into enormous volume across 1.4 billion people. That demand growth is colliding with supply stress: a severe Brazilian drought pushed arabica futures to a record $4.38 per pound in October 2025. Prices have eased but remain well above the 2019–2022 average. The USDA forecasts record global production of 178.7 million bags for the 2025/26 crop year, which could relieve some pressure. The ICO's next full consumption report is expected in the second half of 2026. We'll be watching.

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