Major coffee exporting countries worldwide 2018

In 2018, Brazil exported nearly four and a half billion U.S. dollars’ worth of coffee to other countries, making it the world’s leading coffee exporter by far. Germany followed in second place with a trade value of roughly two and a half billion U.S. dollars.

Coffee producing regions

Not only was Brazil the top exporter of coffee, the South American country was also by far the world’s largest producer. In 2018, Brazilians produced over 60 million 60 kilogram bags of coffee, twice the amount generated by that year’s runner-up, Vietnam. One year later, Latin America as a whole was responsible for producing a total of approximately 100 million bags of coffee beans.

Starbucks worldwide

Starbucks, the largest multinational coffeehouse chain worldwide, has recently experienced considerable growth both in terms of sales and store count. Since 2010, the company’s net revenue grew from just over ten billion to over 25 billion U.S. dollars in 2019. Within the same nine-year-period, the number of Starbucks coffeehouses around the world nearly doubled, ultimately reaching a grand total of over 30,000 stores.