Whether due to its energetic effects, its benefits on the body or even its psychological effects, coffee is the second most consumed drink in the world. It is one of the engines of the economy of countries like Colombia or Brazil, as well as a thermometer of global economic health. Coffee culture continues to expand, and in this graph we can see which countries whose inhabitants drink the most coffee every day.
There is only one question: what about Luxembourg.
Europe >> others. Despite not being producers (although climate change may change that sooner rather than later), Europe gives the rest of the world a review of coffee consumption. Including powers like Brazil, Costa Rica or Colombia. The top 10 positions in coffee consumption correspond to European countries, and except for Greece, which has managed to sneak into the TOP, they are all northern countries.
Outside of that ranking we find a country that may be unexpected: Lebanon. Then we have Brazil, Canada and another string of European countries. But if there is a proper name on this list, it is Luxembourg.
Luxembourg has a trick. Visual Capitalist has created the graph using data from Cafely. After an impressive display of figures, they detail that they have taken data from sources such as the International Coffee Organization, as well as from Wikipedia to calculate per capita consumption and from global surveys of more than 4,000 people. All this has led them to calculate that Luxembourg drinks coffee. And a lot.
That each person, on average, drinks 5.31 cups a day seems outrageous. It does not reach worrying levels of caffeine consumption (there are drinks that are not coffee and have much more caffeine), but it is a fact that draws attention. However, there is a trick: Luxembourg’s per capita figure is explained because almost half of those who work in the country live abroad and drink coffee on the road, as well as to stay awake, and although they are not the country’s population, that consumption has been taken into account for Luxembourg’s totals.
5.31 coffees a day implies 118,227 cups that each person drinks throughout their life, and is well above other countries:
|
Cups consumed throughout life |
Money spent throughout life |
|
|---|---|---|
|
Luxembourg |
118.227 |
425.618 |
|
Finland |
83.939 |
335.756 |
|
Sweden |
58.612 |
216.863 |
|
Norway |
58.159 |
255.900 |
|
austria |
45.198 |
149.153 |
|
Denmark |
44.676 |
241.250 |
|
Swiss |
42.318 |
211.591 |
|
Netherlands |
39.854 |
123.548 |
|
Greece |
37.449 |
116.092 |
|
(27) Spain |
23.988 |
46.057 |
|
(28) Costa Rica |
22.229 |
56.683 |
|
(39) venezuela |
12.844 |
20.423 |
|
(41) Colombia |
12.264 |
13.981 |
a fortune. Furthermore, the average Price per cup is not cheap at all. Without counting atrocities that can be paid in countries like Japan (it is not a product and transportation is expensive) or Dubai (because… it is Dubai), the average price of a cup in northern European countries is quite high. Contrast with the average price as we go down to Portugal, Italy or Spain.
And more interesting than the average price of a cup is the amount of money we spend on coffee throughout our lives, which we can also see in the table above.
The great absentee. It may be striking that countries like Mexico have a consumption of just 0.29 cups, but along with Guatemala, Argentina or Peru, it is one of the countries with the least roots in coffee. For example, it is estimated that each Mexican consumes 2.1 kilos of coffee per year, while Colombians increase the figure to 4.2 kilos. But the big absentee on this list is… China. The Asian giant is not a traditional coffee consumer, but things are changing.
Not only are there a multitude of coffee shops and own chains like Luckin Coffee that are present in practically every corner of a big city, but they are experiencing the greatest growth in the region in opening new brand coffee shops. And they are not only emerging in the region: China is acquiring tons of coffee from Brazil due to a market that is growing at double-digit speed since 2010, with an average annual growth of more than 20%, which is well above a world average that barely reaches 2%.
But anyway, there is no one to blame Luxembourg. And if at some point they blame you for drinking a lot, you can now say that you are trying to raise the average for your country in this curious competition.
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