Coffee Statistics Updated November 2026

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100 Coffee Statistics for 2026

If you want to understand the coffee market, start by separating the drink from the commodity. An adult's coffee habit, a country's harvest and a shipment of green beans are connected, but they are not interchangeable measurements.

This hub brings together original consumer research and official crop, trade and price reports. Every observation identifies its source and reporting period. Forecasts retain their original vintage, while European manufacturing figures explicitly include the broader product categories in Eurostat's release.

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How do Americans consume coffee?

Daily reach is only part of demand. Where people drink, how often they drink and who enters the denominator determine what a consumption statistic actually tells you.

How much coffee do American drinkers consume?

The NCA reports both an average per coffee drinker and an estimated national volume. These answer different questions: individual intensity and the aggregate scale of the drinking occasion. A cup count is a consumption measure, not a measure of dry coffee purchased. Serving size, preparation and strength can vary, so it cannot be converted directly into import tonnage. The survey covers adults and relies on reported behaviour. Its national volume is an estimate instead of a physical count of every drink served. For demand planning, pair reach with frequency before drawing conclusions about the number of customers or the size of an order. Keep these measures separate from agricultural balance sheets, which count coffee weight.

Which US regions report the highest coffee reach?

The Northeast leads the NCA regional comparison. Regional percentages describe the share of adults who drank coffee, instead of each region's share of national sales. The comparison uses the same past-day window across regions, making it more useful than a collection of unrelated local surveys. It does not explain why the regions differ. Climate, age profiles or retail access would require additional evidence before being presented as causes. A marketer can use this map to frame a geographic question, but not to infer store-level demand or identify an underserved city.

Is coffee mainly a breakfast or an out-of-home occasion?

Breakfast is a prominent coffee occasion, while drinking outside the home remains a separate part of the routine. Neither occasion excludes drinking elsewhere during the same day. The at-home finding in the takeaways and the out-of-home finding here can both describe the same person. They should not be treated as competing market shares or forced into a total. The breakfast question also refers to coffee drinkers, instead of all adults. For retailers, this makes occasion-based research more informative than assuming everyone follows a single purchasing channel. For readers comparing surveys, the recall window and denominator matter as much as the percentage. An out-of-home drink is not automatically a café purchase, and a home drink is not automatically brewed from supermarket beans.

How large are coffee supply and demand?

Supply estimates are dated judgments, not final harvest results. USDA and Conab provide useful but different views of Brazil, and neither should be substituted for the other.

What does USDA forecast for consumption and stocks?

USDA's balance sheet separates consumption from the stock remaining at the end of the marketing year. Country demand forecasts sit within that global accounting framework. These are green-coffee-equivalent quantities, not café revenue or cups sold. Marketing-year boundaries vary across countries, which limits comparisons with calendar-year consumer surveys. Stocks are a point-in-time balance, whereas consumption is a flow over the year; the two cannot be added as equivalent demand measures. All forecasts retain their July vintage so later revisions can be compared honestly.

Which producers shape the forecast harvest?

Brazil anchors this forecast; its species figures are subtotals. Do not add Brazil's species subtotals to its total. Domestic use and inventories also affect export availability.

How does Conab describe Brazil's crop?

  • Conab estimated Brazil's 2026 Arabica crop at 48.2 million 60-kg bags. (Conab, Sep 2026)
  • Conab estimated Brazil's 2026 conilon crop at 19.4 million 60-kg bags. (Conab, Sep 2026)
  • Conab estimated Brazil's 2026 coffee production area at 1.95 million hectares. (Conab, Sep 2026)
  • Conab estimated Brazil's 2026 coffee yield at 34.6 bags of 60 kg per hectare. (Conab, Sep 2026)

Conab's national survey provides a later estimate of Brazilian output alongside area and yield. Its species figures belong to that survey, not the earlier USDA balance sheet. The headline total appears in the takeaways. The disagreement between agencies is evidence of different estimates and timing, not a reason to average the figures into a supposedly definitive crop size. Conab uses conilon terminology for the crop category reported here. Area and yield explain dimensions of output, but rounded published inputs may not multiply to the exact reported total. Retain each agency's units, edition and country-year definition when refreshing the page.

How is coffee traded internationally?

Exports measure movement across borders instead of final consumption. Observed monthly shipments, cumulative coffee-year totals and forecasts each answer a different trade question.

Which exporters does USDA expect to supply the market?

USDA's country forecasts describe coffee-bean exports over the upcoming marketing year. They are prospective supply measures, separate from the ICO's observed monthly trade series. The world forecast is given in the takeaways. These countries are not an exhaustive exporter list and do not sum to the global total. Export capacity can differ from harvest size because domestic demand and stored coffee also enter the balance. A buyer comparing suppliers should preserve the forecast label instead of presenting these shipments as already completed.

How do green-bean exports differ by coffee group?

ICO separates Robusta from Arabica groups. These classifications are not countries. Total Arabica includes the Arabica groups above. Cumulative figures cover the coffee year to date, not August alone; do not add them to monthly observations.

How much coffee moves in all forms?

ICO's all-forms measure includes processed coffee. Regional totals describe export origin, not final consumption. Monthly regions and cumulative world totals cover different periods. Rounding can prevent regional values from summing precisely. Volumes do not measure export revenue or processing profitability.

How did green-coffee prices change?

A benchmark price is not the price of a café drink. ICO indicators allow like-for-like comparisons of green-coffee groups without confusing wholesale movement with retail inflation.

How do ICO coffee-group prices compare?

Colombian Milds carry the highest average among these reported group indicators. Each observation is a monthly average in the same currency and weight unit. The composite headline in the takeaways combines market information instead of representing a particular retail bag of beans. Group indicators can help explain procurement conditions, but they do not incorporate every cost faced by a roaster or café. Freight, processing, packaging and retail service are outside these quoted benchmarks. Distinguish cents per pound from dollars per kilogram. The source's group names are retained to avoid implying that every origin receives the same transaction price.

What do price spreads and volatility show?

Price differentials show the distance between group indicators, while volatility describes movement instead of price level. Both add information that a single composite average hides. A spread is not a retailer's profit margin. It compares source indicators before the costs and terms of any particular contract are considered. Volatility likewise cannot establish whether a buyer or seller earned money. These measures are presented for the same report month, keeping the comparison internally consistent. The composite decline in the takeaways is a change from the preceding month and is a separate measure from either volatility or a group-to-group spread.

What does Europe's coffee market look like?

Europe's coffee economy combines imports with roasting and other manufacturing. Industrial production in this section must not be mistaken for coffee farming.

Where does the EU source its imported coffee?

  • EU extra-EU coffee imports were valued at €18.7 billion in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • The EU imported 1,005,200 tonnes of coffee from Brazil in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • The EU imported 587,500 tonnes of coffee from Vietnam in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • The EU imported 262,400 tonnes of coffee from Uganda in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • The EU imported 162,900 tonnes of coffee from Colombia in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • The EU imported 136,500 tonnes of coffee from Honduras in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)

Brazil leads the listed external suppliers by volume. Eurostat's import value measures cross-border trade, not European consumer spending on coffee. The scope is extra-EU imports, so movements between member states are excluded from this comparison. Supplier countries identify reported origin flows instead of the nationality of brands on supermarket shelves. The total import volume appears in the takeaways. Value can change because of prices as well as physical quantities, so a larger euro figure alone would not demonstrate stronger consumption.

Which EU countries receive the largest external shipments?

  • Germany imported 1,010,500 tonnes of coffee from outside the EU in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Italy imported 608,000 tonnes of coffee from outside the EU in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Spain imported 281,600 tonnes of coffee from outside the EU in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Belgium imported 269,200 tonnes of coffee from outside the EU in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • The Netherlands imported 216,600 tonnes of coffee from outside the EU in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)

Germany and Italy lead the destinations listed by Eurostat. The figures concern imports from outside the EU and therefore cannot rank total national coffee consumption. Coffee can enter a member state for processing or onward trade. Import location is consequently different from the final market in which a drink is consumed. These figures also exclude purchases arriving from another EU member, so they are not a complete measure of every country's coffee supply. Use the country comparison to understand external trade gateways, while keeping retail demand and intra-EU trade as separate research questions.

Where is coffee manufactured inside the EU?

  • EU manufactured output of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes was worth almost €19 billion in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Germany manufactured 561,200 tonnes of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Italy manufactured 514,200 tonnes of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Spain manufactured 211,900 tonnes of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • France manufactured 146,800 tonnes of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Poland manufactured 134,800 tonnes of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)
  • Sweden manufactured 79,400 tonnes of roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes in 2025. (Eurostat, Oct 2026)

Germany and Italy lead the reported manufacturing output. Eurostat's product scope includes roasted or decaffeinated coffee and coffee substitutes. This category extends beyond roasted beans. The volume headline appears in the takeaways. Output can serve export markets, so dividing production by population does not measure drinking intensity.

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Methodology and sources

Every figure on this page comes from the organisation that produced it: regulators, statistics offices, public bodies, research institutes, and companies reporting their own data or surveys. Each one links to the original report or dataset and carries its release date. Survey results keep their population and fieldwork period, and financial figures keep the measure the producer used. Figures from different producers are not added together or ranked against each other. The page is reviewed monthly and updated when a producer releases newer data.