MAPPED: THE COUNTRIES THAT DRINK THE MOST COFFEE [2017]

Thu 28.12.2017

It's International Coffee Day (October,10th), 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.

Helsinki, where there

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.

MAPPED: THE COUNTRIES THAT DRINK THE MOST COFFEE [2017]