Mapped: The countries that drink the most coffee
It's International Coffee Day, a global celebration of flat whites and espresso martinis.
But which country is most fond of the much-loved bean? We've mapped the world according to coffee consumption per capita – and it's the Finns that come out on top. They grind their way through an impressive 12kg per person per year, according to stats from the International Coffee Organization (ICO).
Finland's neighbours are just as hungry for java. Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden also make the top 10 – it must be those long winters.
The US comes 26th, while the UK turns up at number 45.
The world's 20 biggest coffee drinkers
Finland - 12kg per capita per year
Norway - 9.9
Iceland - 9
Denmark - 8.7
Netherlands - 8.4
Sweden - 8.2
Switzerland - 7.9
Belgium - 6.8
Luxembourg - 6.5
Canada - 6.2
Bosnia and Herzegovina - 6.1
Austria - 5.9
Italy - 5.8
Slovenia - 5.8
Brazil - 5.5
Germany - 5.5
Greece - 5.4
France - 5.1
Croatia - 4.9
Cyprus - 4.8
While the Scandis dominate the business end of the coffee-drinking table, the ranking of coffee-producing nations is very different. You can't grow coffee in northern Europe (obviously).
Brazil is the world's biggest exporter of coffee, shipping a truly remarkable 5.7bn pounds of grounds each year, according to ICO. In fact, Brazil has been the world’s largest exporter of coffee for more than 150 years. It supplied around 80 per cent of the world’s coffee in the 1920s, but that figure has fallen to around a third.
Second is, perhaps surprisingly, Vietnam, with 3.6bn, followed by Colombia, Indonesia and Ethiopia.
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The world's 10 biggest coffee exporters
Brazil - 5.7bn pounds
Vietnam - 3.6bn
Colombia - 1.8bn
Indonesia - 1.5bn
Ethiopia - 847m
Honduras - 767m
India - 767m
Uganda - 635m
Mexico - 516m
Guatemala - 450m
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Love it or hate it, Starbucks has spread its caffeine-soaked tentacles around all four corners of the globe. But which country has the most branches per head of population? SilverDoor (a serviced apartment website) crunched the numbers, and Monaco came out on top, followed by the US, Canada, Aruba and The Bahamas.
Monaco - 52.08 per 1 million inhabitants
United States - 41
Canada - 38.8
Aruba - 27.25
The Bahamas - 26.45
Kuwait - 25.34
Singapore - 23.18
South Korea - 19.3
Curacao - 18.87
Taiwan - 16.74
Ireland - 15.34
Bahrain - 14.95
United Arab Emirates - 14.61
United Kingdom - 13.84
Andorra - 12.82
What about tea?
The UK's lowly position in the coffee rankings may be down to our devotion to another hot beverage: tea. We drink more tea per person per year (4.281 pounds) than all but two other nations, according to 2014 Euromonitor statistics. Turkey tops that particular table, with 6.961 pounds consumed annually per capita.
The world's 20 biggest tea drinkers
Turkey - 6.961 lbs per capita per year
Ireland - 4.831
United Kingdom - 4.281
Russia - 3.051
Morocco - 2.682
New Zealand - 2.629
Egypt - 2.231
Poland - 2.204
Japan - 2.133
Saudi Arabia - 1.983
South Africa - 1.789
Netherlands - 1.714
Australia - 1.649
Chile - 1.613
United Arab Emirates - 1.589
Germany - 1.524
Hong Kong - 1.428
Ukraine - 1.284
China - 1.248
Canada - 1.121
The above figures include tea in many forms: Earl Grey, masala chai, green, mint and iced – so long as it's derived from the tea plant, Camellia sinensis.
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But include maté tea and a slew of new nations enter the equation, including Paraguay, where they guzzle 26.9lbs of the stuff per person per year, Uruguay (21.3lbs) and Argentina (13.3lbs).