Coffee Trivia

  • Coffee is the most popular drink worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
  • Britain consumes 500g of coffee per person, per year.
  • Over half of the espresso consumed in the UK is drunk in the South East of the country.
  • More than 900,000 cups of Fairtrade coffee are drunk everyday in the UK. Sales of Fairtrade products are increasing by 40% a year.
  • Coffee is the most popular drink in the world with around half-a-trillion cups consumed each year.
  • The Americas produce about 70% of the world's coffee; Brazil accounts for 30% and Colombia 12%. Ethiopia supplies 3% of the world's requirements.
  • 25 million people are employed in the world's coffee industry.
  • 5 million people are employed in Brazil's coffee industry.
  • 12 million people are employed in Ethiopia's coffee industry.
  • The USA is the world's largest coffee consumer, importing about 1.2 billion kg every year.
  • Almost £1 billion was spent on coffee in the UK last year.
  • Brazil has more than 3 billion coffee plants.
  • Coffee is the world's second most valuable commodity after petroleum.
  • All commercial coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
  • More than 50 countries produce coffee in commercial quantities.
  • Coffee harvesting is the least mechanised of all widely produced agricultural crops.
  • Ethiopia has the highest per capita consumption of coffee in the world.
  • Finland has the highest per capita coffee consumption in Europe, closely followed by Denmark.
  • It takes between 35 - 45 beans to make an espresso.
  • Men drink slightly more coffee than women.
  • 63% of coffee is drunk with milk and sugar; 40% is drunk black.
  • The first coffee in Europe was sold in chemists in 1615 where it was known as Arabian wine.
  • Cappuccino is named after the Capuchin monk's habit because of the resemblance of colour.
  • Bach wrote a coffee cantata in 1732.
  • Coffee beans mixed with other ingredients are eaten in many parts of Africa.
  • Coffee is responsible for about 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the world.
  • Europeans first added chocolate to their coffee in the early 1600s.
  • The human body eliminates 20% of the caffeine in its system every hour.
  • The human body is only capable of absorbing 300 milligrams of caffeine at any one time.
  • The average cup of coffee contains about 150 milligrams of caffeine.
  • Regular coffee drinkers have a much lower rate of asthma.
  • Robusta has twice as much caffeine as Arabica.
  • Coffee would be more expensive than wine if it were taxed in the same way.
  • The world's first Internet Cafe, Cyberia, opened in London in 1994.
  • The first American Internet Cafe, Suba, opened in Chicago in 1995.
  • Australia's first Internet Cafe, Cybernet, opened in Melbourne in 1995.

  • The highest Internet Cafe in the world is at Mount Everest base camp.