They have tons of commuters and business travelers. Didn't look into the methodology, but my first guess would be that those are included in the numerator, but not in the denominator.
Whenever I see outliers like Luxembourg in these stats, I wonder if there's something fishy with taxes and/or accounting going on there. Or may be just citizens of neighboring countries going shopping to Luxembourg for tax-related reasons?
> Interestingly, the list also includes non-traditional coffee-consuming countries such as Lebanon and Brazil, which could be attributed to the global spread of coffee-related business and culture
Really? Both Brazil and Lebanon are traditional coffee consuming countries. Brazil in particular is the largest producer of coffee in the world and coffee is everywhere, since pretty much forever.
This just made me think am I missing something? Brazil is a huge coffee producer and Lebanon as an Arab country must have been exposed to coffee ages ago.
Also, I don't see any questioning of Luxembourg stats. Almost six cups per capita cannot sound right, the country size must have skewed the results.
All in all, casts doubt on the rest of the article.
Yeah. The per-cup prices seem to assume that. They might be somewhere in the right ballpark for that, although even for cafes, the price actually varies a lot depending on whether it's a speciality coffee.
Correspondingly, the total lifetime spending figures can't be even close to right in lots of the listed countries.
The math is silly, these numbers are made up. Says the average American drinks 28K cups and spends $120K in their lifetime. That’s 1.5 cups daily at $4/cup for 50 years.
Luxembourg with an average (!) of over 5 cups a day per person also seems extremely high. That’s over 10 cups of coffee a day for every person that doesn’t drink coffee over there.
Also, seems like different types of coffee have different amounts of caffeine, which I would say is important.
It's a very strange price point - "Utility Coffee" like Dunkin or Tim's is usually around $2 for a medium, but "Specialty Coffee" like Starbucks or local cafes is $5 to $8. I'm not sure where they got their data, or what they qualified as "coffee" for this. The omission of the UK in their data is also quite strange.
I suspect based on the graphics that they're orienting this more towards the "specialty coffee" subtype, and getting this information from a supplier network rather than any sort of broad data "census".
> Due to the moderately strong correlation, performing RA on those metrics suggests that each additional kilogram of coffee consumed per person annually could potentially raise life expectancy by 1.22%.
What? Do you really think it's the coffee and not the relation between GDP per capita (and ergo better healthcare and overall life expectancy) and number of cups per coffee? This hilarious implied causation tells me I should drink 100 cups a day and live forever.
I suspect they got their European source data from Eurostat, and since Brexit Meant Brexit, Eurostat hasn't covered the UK for most datasets. You see this shape of map (Europe minus some Balkans and the UK) a fair bit, for that reason.
Come on. People in Luxembourg average 5.31 cups of coffee per day? Yes, my experience is anecdotal, but I'm not even sure that the self-described "coffee addicts" who I know are averaging that much, let alone an entire population.
A cup of coffee costs $1.99 in Vietnam? That's higher than the cost of an average meal to begin with. Most local shops (i.e. not Starbucks) top out at $1.
> An analysis of the correlation between per capita coffee consumption and life expectancy across countries indicates a moderately positive correlation of around 0.577, suggesting there exists a slightly strong correlation between the two metrics.
> Due to the moderately strong correlation, performing RA on those metrics suggests that each additional kilogram of coffee consumed per person annually could potentially raise life expectancy by 1.22%.
I would imagine this to be a "correlation is not causation" situation. Countries with high coffee consumption per capita are generally developed countries.
As a phd student in robotics I drink a lof of coffee. Unfortunately, as always, the title was waaaay bigger than the content.
Missing clear sources and got mad about the regression analysis part *where's my p-value?.
Greece made it into the top 10, I would have expected it further up. Where I grew up, there were a lot of people from Greece and they loved their coffee cafes.
My surprise is Turkiye (Turkey), I would have expected it would also be in the top 10.
But what is defined as a cup ? What a cup would be considered in the US ? I would think what people they drink in Turkiye would be considered 2 or 3 cups of US Coffee. Doesn't it have a much higher Caffeine than in US Coffee ?
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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-co...
All a bit random and unscientific to have these statistics, I guess.
> Coffee Consumption by Country 2024
But then the subsequent heading is
> Top 10 Countries that Drink the Most Coffee Per Person (kg/lbs per year) (International Coffee Organization 2016)
So which is it, 2024 or 2016?
I will say the 2016 data does agree with my roughly decade-old recollection that Finns drink a lot of coffee.
> Interestingly, the list also includes non-traditional coffee-consuming countries such as Lebanon and Brazil, which could be attributed to the global spread of coffee-related business and culture
Really? Both Brazil and Lebanon are traditional coffee consuming countries. Brazil in particular is the largest producer of coffee in the world and coffee is everywhere, since pretty much forever.
Also, I don't see any questioning of Luxembourg stats. Almost six cups per capita cannot sound right, the country size must have skewed the results.
All in all, casts doubt on the rest of the article.
Correspondingly, the total lifetime spending figures can't be even close to right in lots of the listed countries.
I've seen small children begging their mom to go into Starbucks, something that was unthinkable a few decades ago.
The volume seems plausible. The cost seems a bit steep.
Also, seems like different types of coffee have different amounts of caffeine, which I would say is important.
I suspect based on the graphics that they're orienting this more towards the "specialty coffee" subtype, and getting this information from a supplier network rather than any sort of broad data "census".
If we want to protect this area from collapsing, coffee may become of limited availability (which I'm sure many people would find unacceptable).
What? Do you really think it's the coffee and not the relation between GDP per capita (and ergo better healthcare and overall life expectancy) and number of cups per coffee? This hilarious implied causation tells me I should drink 100 cups a day and live forever.
Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
> Due to the moderately strong correlation, performing RA on those metrics suggests that each additional kilogram of coffee consumed per person annually could potentially raise life expectancy by 1.22%.
I would imagine this to be a "correlation is not causation" situation. Countries with high coffee consumption per capita are generally developed countries.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/12/20/chart-of-...
My surprise is Turkiye (Turkey), I would have expected it would also be in the top 10.
But what is defined as a cup ? What a cup would be considered in the US ? I would think what people they drink in Turkiye would be considered 2 or 3 cups of US Coffee. Doesn't it have a much higher Caffeine than in US Coffee ?