Organic food and drink sales revenue in the United Kingdom 1999-2017

What is the value of organic food sales in the UK? In 2017, the sales revenue of organic food and drink sales in the United Kingdom amounted to two billion British pounds. In 2007 and 2008, sales revenues were similarly high before sales revenues fell towards 2011. Since then the sales revenue of the organic food and drink market has seen an almost annual growth towards 2017.

British consumer’s purchase habits

In total, 58 percent of Brits bought organic food in 2017. This was an increase of eleven percent compared to the previous year. The share of British consumers that purchased organic vegetables in an average month was 64 percent, for all other categories of organic produce the share was lower.

Organic food market

The European retail sales of organic food amounted to 37.3 billion euros in 2017. For the European Union the number was three billion euros lower. The difference is due to the high spending in countries that are not in the Union. Switzerland alone saw an organic food revenue of 2.4 billion euros with per capita revenues in the country standing out amongst other European countries as the highest at 289 euros per capita in 2017.