How many cups of coffee are drunk every day?
How many cups of coffee are drunk every day?
roughly 2.5 billion
Roughly one cup of coffee a day for every three people alive. Coffee is the second most traded commodity by value after oil among agricultural goods.
World coffee consumption runs at about 175 million 60-kg bags a year, which is 10.5 million tonnes of green coffee. At the 8 to 12 grams a standard cup takes, that is somewhere between 900 billion and 1.3 trillion cups a year, or roughly 2.5 billion a day. Finland drinks the most per head, around 12 kg a year — about four times the world average and roughly three cups a day for every man, woman and child.
How the figure is arrived at
Green coffee tonnage divided by grams per cup. The tonnage is well measured because coffee is a traded commodity tracked at export and import; the grams-per-cup figure is the loose end, and moving it from 8 g to 12 g changes the answer by 50%.
How confident it is
- Low estimate
- 2,000,000,000
- High estimate
- 3,000,000,000
- Spread
- 1.5× between the bounds
Other every day counts
- How many babies are born each day? about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
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- How many words do we speak a day? about 16,000
- How many breaths do you take in a lifetime? about 600 million
- How many messages are sent every day? about 100 billion on WhatsApp alone
Common questions
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day?
- roughly 2.5 billion
- How is that estimated?
- Green coffee tonnage divided by grams per cup. The tonnage is well measured because coffee is a traded commodity tracked at export and import; the grams-per-cup figure is the loose end, and moving it from 8 g to 12 g changes the answer by 50%.
Related pages
- How many babies are born each day? about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
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Sources
- Calculated on this page — At One Place