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title: "How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billi"
description: "roughly 2.5 billion How the figure is estimated, how confident it is, and what makes the scale graspable."
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# 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

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## 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%.

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## Sources

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)