What brand of coffee is consumed most and why?

In the morning, how do you prefer your coffee? A lot depends on where you wake up, from an Italian espresso to the Vietnamese ca phe trung, which is made with egg yolks and condensed milk.

According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, more people are drinking coffee than ever before. So, which country produces the most of the coffee beans we need? Who consumes the most coffee and where do they get it?

1. The most prestigious coffee manufacturers

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world, with over 50 countries producing it.

In the crop year 2017-18, the top ten coffee producers were ranked by the number of 60kg bags produced per thousand.

Brazil produces the most coffee in the world. The country produced more than 51 million bags of beans in 2017-18. Vietnam is the world's second-largest producer.

In 2017-18, India produced 5.8 million 60kg bags of coffee, with Sri Lanka producing 33,000. India is also one of the world's major tea producers.

Key producers are a few much smaller countries. For example, Honduras produced over 8.3 million bags of coffee last year, making it one of the country's most important exports.

Above a bowl adjacent to a fire, female hands hold freshly roasted coffee beans.

According to the Fairtrade Foundation, coffee provides a living for more than 125 million people throughout the world, with about 25 million smallholder farms producing 80 percent of the world's coffee.

Fairtrade coffee allows customers to track their coffee beans back to their origins, and growers are guaranteed a minimum price for their crop. Fairtrade coffee producers produce 560,900 tonnes of coffee every year, enough to generate around 58.9 billion single espressos.

Some scholars say that farmers' participation in the plan is costly, which could negate any possible benefits. Encouraging coffee production with a monetary incentive may result in an excess of coffee being produced, lowering prices.

Fairtrade certification, according to Louisa Cox, director of impact at the Fairtrade Foundation, also entitles farmers to training, safety equipment, and protection.

Although there are over 100 different coffee species, Arabica and Robusta are the most extensively grown and sold.

2. Who consumes the most coffee?

According to figures from the International Coffee Organization, only two countries consume more than 10 kg of coffee per person per year: Finland and Sweden.

The Finnish consume the most coffee each year, at 12.5kg per person.

The rest of the top five are Nordic countries, which may require a cup to get through the frigid days.

The top ten coffee-consuming countries are all in Europe, whereas the majority of the world's coffee producers are in developing countries with ideal growing conditions.

The "bean belt" on each side of the equator - between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer - has optimum growing conditions for coffee plants (23 degrees North to 23 degrees South).

The United States and the United Kingdom are not among the top 20 coffee users, dropping behind Croatia, France, and Lithuania.

3. Who is the biggest spender?

Coffee's supply chain is intricate. Growers sell beans to brokers, processors sell to exporters, and roasters sell to retailers.

As a result, a change in the price of coffee can have a significant impact on prices for farmers, producers, and consumers.

There are four options for dealing with the problem of disposable coffee cups.

According to the International Coffee Organization, UK customers paid the highest price per pound of soluble coffee in 2016: $16.29 (£11.45).

Malta came in second at $13.33 (£9.37) per pound of roasted coffee, followed by Italy at $7.45 (£5.24).

Coffee drinkers in Poland pay the least for their daily fix, $3.17 (£2.23).

4. The most recognizable brands

For many workers throughout the world, picking up a cup of coffee on the way to work has become a daily routine.

In 2017, there were more than 22,700 branded coffee shops in Europe, and more than 27,900 in the United States, according to research firm Allegra Strategies.

In terms of number of locations, this graph depicts the top 5 branded coffee chains in the United States and Europe in 2017.

Starbucks, situated in Seattle, comes out on top in the United States, with over 13,500 locations. With 2,755 locations, Costa Coffee is Europe's largest coffee chain, followed by Starbucks with 2,406.

Despite its reputation as a tea-drinking nation, the United Kingdom has 7,421 branded coffee shops in 2017.

Last year, the number of stores in the United Kingdom increased by 643, the most increase in Europe.

5. The most popular coffee beverages

Coffee experts may take pleasure in their ability to drink strong coffee, yet milk-based coffee drinks remain the most popular in the UK.

Top coffee items sold in the UK in the year to date (as of February 25, 2018), ranked by units sold.

With over 930 million sold in the year to February 25, 2018, lattes were the most popular coffee product in the UK. According to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel, cappuccinos came in second with 800 million units sold.

Flat whites are becoming increasingly popular, with spending on the smooth coffee beverages up 56% from February 2017 to 2018.

In the year to February 25, 2018, individuals spent £6.3 billion ($8.97 billion) on coffee.

Coffee culture appears to be here to stay, outspending tea in the UK by £1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) in 2017.