From 2021 to 2022, the value of worldwide coffee exports accelerated by 27.4% compared to $36.4 billion five years earlier.
The 5 biggest international coffee shippers (Brazil, Colombia, Switzerland, Germany and Vietnam) accounted for almost half (49%) of all exported coffee during the latest annual reporting period.
From a continental perspective, suppliers in Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean sold the highest dollar value worth of exported coffee on international markets in 2022 with total shipments valued at $18.1 billion or 39.1% of the world’s total value. In second place at 34% were sellers in Europe, ahead of coffee competitors located in Asia with a 12.7% share.
Smaller percentages were generated by providers in Africa (7.8%), North America (5.8%), then Oceania (0.6%) led by Papua New Guinea and Australia.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code prefix for coffee is 0901.
Coffee Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of coffee during 2022.
- Brazil: US$8.5 billion (18.4% of total coffee exports)
- Colombia: $4.1 billion (8.8%)
- Switzerland: $3.4 billion (7.4%)
- Germany: $3.39 billion (7.3%)
- Vietnam: $3.23 billion (7%)
- Italy: $2.4 billion (5.1%)
- Honduras: $1.7 billion (3.7%)
- Ethiopia: $1.51 billion (3.3%)
- Belgium: $1.47 billion (3.2%)
- United States: $1.2 billion (2.6%)
- Peru: $1.19 billion (2.6%)
- France: $1.18 billion (2.6%)
- Indonesia: $1.15 billion (2.5%)
- Guatemala: $1.12 billion (2.4%)
- Netherlands: $1.11 billion (2.4%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped almost four-fifths (79.2%) of global coffee exports in 2022.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing coffee exporters were located in Peru (up 56.7% from 2021), Vietnam (up 50%), Brazil (up 46.4%) and the United States of America (up 45.4%).
A pair of leading suppliers posted declines in their exported coffee sales namely France (down -16.1%) and Switzerland (down -5%).
Countries Earning Biggest Surpluses from Trading Coffee
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for coffee during 2022. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the surplus between the value of each country’s coffee exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Brazil: US$8.4 billion (net export surplus up 95.5% since 2018)
- Colombia: $3.6 billion (up 61%)
- Vietnam: $3.2 billion (up 13.4%)
- Switzerland: $2.1 billion (up 33.1%)
- Honduras: $1.7 billion (up 54.3%)
- Ethiopia: $1.5 billion (up 90.5%)
- Peru: $1.2 billion (up 78.4%)
- Guatemala: $1.11 billion (up 63.7%)
- Indonesia: $1.09 billion (up 64.4%)
- Uganda: $810.8 million (up 89.3%)
- Nicaragua: $716.2 million (up 70.7%)
- Mexico: $564.3 million (up 81.3%)
- India: $558.1 million (up 46.8%)
- Rwanda: $441.2 million (up 458.3%)
- Costa Rica: $337 million (up 10.2%)
Brazil generates the highest surplus in the international trade of coffee. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms Brazil’s strong competitive advantage for this specific product category.
Countries Incurring Biggest Deficits from Trading Coffee
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for coffee during 2022. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the deficit between the value of each country’s coffee import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- United States: -US$8.6 billion (net export deficit up 76.7% since 2018)
- Germany: -$2.3 billion (up 145.6%)
- France: -$2 billion (up 21.2%)
- Japan: -$1.8 billion (up 42.7%)
- South Korea: -$1.3 billion (up 105.3%)
- United Kingdom: -$1.1 billion (up 51.2%)
- Canada: -$1.1 billion (up 51%)
- Spain: -$1 billion (up 34.2%)
- Australia: -$652.7 million (up 46.5%)
- Netherlands: -$558.2 million (up 21.2%)
- Russia: -$557.9 million (up 0.2%)
- Belgium: -$543.3 million (up 161.9%)
- mainland China: -$499 million (up 602.2%)
- Sweden: -$457.6 million (up 66.7%)
- Poland: -$453.2 million (up 81.3%)
The United States of America posted the biggest deficit in the international trade of coffee. In turn, this negative cashflow confirms America’s strong competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for coffee-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful consumer demand.
Coffee Exporting Companies
According to the Tropical Commodity Coalition (TCC), green coffee beans are a minimally processed product accounting for approximately 95% of coffee exports. Ironically, coffee-producing countries earn comparatively little from the sale and export of their products. That is because a large share of coffee profits go to supply chain middlemen and large roaster conglomerates.
International coffee trading companies operating in producer countries via joint ventures with local middlemen. The following are examples of coffee-trading companies located in the country shown within parentheses:
- Barbera Coffee Company (Italy)
- Coffee Cabana Brazil (Brazil)
- Maxwell House (United States)
- Miko Coffee (Belgium)
- Nestlé (Switzerland)
- Neumann Gruppe AG (Germany)
- O’Coffee – Brazilian Estates (Brazil)
- Ospina Coffee Company (Colombia)
- Simexco Daklak Ltd (Vietnam)
- Starbucks Corporation (United States)
Searchable List of Coffee Exporting Countries in 2022
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns below. The right-most column highlights the percentage change in the value of globally exported coffee from 2021 to 2022.
| Rank | Exporter | Coffee Exports (US$) | 2021-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Brazil | $8,542,533,000 | +46.4% |
| 2. | Colombia | $4,093,436,000 | +28.4% |
| 3. | Switzerland | $3,422,252,000 | -5% |
| 4. | Germany | $3,393,567,000 | +15.2% |
| 5. | Vietnam | $3,234,103,000 | +50% |
| 6. | Italy | $2,368,461,000 | +12.8% |
| 7. | Honduras | $1,716,209,000 | +32.8% |
| 8. | Ethiopia | $1,513,246,000 | +27.2% |
| 9. | Belgium | $1,468,239,000 | +34.9% |
| 10. | United States | $1,199,286,000 | +45.4% |
| 11. | Peru | $1,188,902,000 | +56.7% |
| 12. | France | $1,182,821,000 | -16.1% |
| 13. | Indonesia | $1,149,168,000 | +33.8% |
| 14. | Guatemala | $1,115,976,000 | +20.2% |
| 15. | Netherlands | $1,110,659,000 | +22.5% |
| 16. | Canada | $851,082,000 | +44.6% |
| 17. | Uganda | $812,984,000 | +13.1% |
| 18. | India | $760,840,000 | +21.3% |
| 19. | Nicaragua | $716,440,000 | +40.6% |
| 20. | Mexico | $653,255,000 | +74.7% |
| 21. | Poland | $513,209,000 | +29% |
| 22. | Rwanda | $441,493,000 | +420.8% |
| 23. | Spain | $383,849,000 | +6.6% |
| 24. | Costa Rica | $376,216,000 | +13.3% |
| 25. | Kenya | $326,714,000 | +31.7% |
| 26. | United Kingdom | $280,847,000 | -20.7% |
| 27. | Papua New Guinea | $246,061,000 | +61% |
| 28. | China | $219,105,000 | +115.4% |
| 29. | Sweden | $204,405,000 | +27% |
| 30. | Czech Republic | $196,571,000 | +10.5% |
| 31. | Tanzania | $182,945,000 | +6.7% |
| 32. | El Salvador | $176,977,000 | +44% |
| 33. | Slovakia | $169,889,000 | +24.5% |
| 34. | Timor-Leste | $125,355,000 | +354% |
| 35. | Portugal | $122,522,000 | -2.2% |
| 36. | Austria | $122,407,000 | +20.7% |
| 37. | Lithuania | $116,363,000 | +68.5% |
| 38. | Denmark | $109,014,000 | +13.1% |
| 39. | Bulgaria | $98,282,000 | +13.1% |
| 40. | Laos | $98,157,000 | +9.2% |
| 41. | Ivory Coast | $95,149,000 | +158.4% |
| 42. | Finland | $86,266,000 | +94.2% |
| 43. | Türkiye | $65,147,000 | +85.5% |
| 44. | Luxembourg | $62,015,000 | +36.7% |
| 45. | Hungary | $55,560,000 | +17.5% |
| 46. | Slovenia | $55,007,000 | +24.7% |
| 47. | Singapore | $53,459,000 | +15.2% |
| 48. | Latvia | $53,439,000 | +36.6% |
| 49. | Burundi | $42,407,000 | +51.2% |
| 50. | Dominican Republic | $35,968,000 | +194.2% |
| 51. | Guinea | $34,866,000 | +1003.4% |
| 52. | Democr. Rep. Congo | $31,106,000 | +63.4% |
| 53. | Malaysia | $30,059,000 | +8.8% |
| 54. | Cameroon | $29,647,000 | +27% |
| 55. | Japan | $28,470,000 | -26.1% |
| 56. | Ecuador | $28,354,000 | +72.1% |
| 57. | Lebanon | $28,020,000 | +33.5% |
| 58. | Panama | $27,279,000 | -1.3% |
| 59. | Greece | $26,129,000 | -6.1% |
| 60. | Jamaica | $25,839,000 | +32.7% |
| 61. | Venezuela | $25,081,000 | +268% |
| 62. | Australia | $24,516,000 | +17.7% |
| 63. | Zambia | $23,770,000 | +55.3% |
| 64. | Estonia | $21,913,000 | +314.9% |
| 65. | Armenia | $21,903,000 | +237.5% |
| 66. | Romania | $21,041,000 | +18.2% |
| 67. | Russia | $20,737,000 | -67.9% |
| 68. | South Africa | $19,932,000 | -6% |
| 69. | Ireland | $19,664,000 | -16.8% |
| 70. | Croatia | $19,343,000 | +11.1% |
| 71. | Bolivia | $16,303,000 | +59.7% |
| 72. | Congo | $15,176,000 | +28534% |
| 73. | Taiwan | $13,925,000 | -15.1% |
| 74. | Serbia | $13,479,000 | +31.9% |
| 75. | Myanmar | $13,338,000 | +240.8% |
| 76. | Jordan | $13,299,000 | +1.9% |
| 77. | Uruguay | $9,504,000 | +60.8% |
| 78. | Hong Kong | $9,001,000 | +87.2% |
| 79. | Togo | $8,555,000 | +494.1% |
| 80. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $7,896,000 | -2.4% |
| 81. | United Arab Emirates | $7,699,000 | -89.3% |
| 82. | Djibouti | $7,244,000 | +12.8% |
| 83. | Cuba | $6,955,000 | -0.1% |
| 84. | Yemen | $6,454,000 | -77.2% |
| 85. | South Korea | $6,254,000 | +12.6% |
| 86. | Norway | $5,939,000 | +9.8% |
| 87. | Sierra Leone | $5,515,000 | +67.2% |
| 88. | Thailand | $3,637,000 | -1.2% |
| 89. | Syria | $3,230,000 | -47.1% |
| 90. | New Zealand | $2,866,000 | +13% |
| 91. | Malawi | $2,443,000 | -13.4% |
| 92. | Egypt | $2,417,000 | +271.3% |
| 93. | Israel | $2,342,000 | -13.8% |
| 94. | Morocco | $2,241,000 | -33.1% |
| 95. | North Macedonia | $1,937,000 | -15.9% |
| 96. | Haiti | $1,544,000 | +51.2% |
| 97. | Kazakhstan | $1,521,000 | +2204.5% |
| 98. | Ukraine | $1,476,000 | -24.8% |
| 99. | Georgia | $1,308,000 | +222.2% |
| 100. | Zimbabwe | $1,132,000 | +11.2% |
The 100 top exporters of coffee accounted for 99.95% of the total value of globally exported coffee during 2022.
Biggest Exporters of Coffee by Shipment Weight
In 2022, 9.02 million tons of coffee was exported around the world. That physical volume results from an 11.5% increase from 8.1 million tons for 2018 and represents a flatlining -2.5% drop compared to the 9.25 million tons in 2021.
Listed below are the 15 leading coffee exporters ranked by tonnage shipped.
- Brazil: 2,135,446 tons of exported coffee (down -6.7% from 2021)
- Vietnam: 1,343,221 tons (2021 data unavailable)
- Colombia: 640,575 tons (down -8.6%)
- Germany: 568,704 tons (down -5.3%)
- Indonesia: 437,954 tons (up 13.1%)
- Honduras: 323,396 tons (down -17%)
- Italy: 310,134 tons (up 7%)
- Belgium: 307,273 tons (up 3.5%)
- Uganda: 288,218 tons (down -29.4%)
- Ethiopia: 273,804 tons (down -10%)
- India: 271,297 tons (up 2.6%)
- Peru: 237,235 tons (up 23.6%)
- Guatemala: 194,021 tons (down -14.1%)
- Netherlands: 164,615 tons (up 29.5%)
- Nicaragua: 156,889 tons (up 2.4%)
The top 5 exporters of coffee by shipment weight (Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Germany and Indonesia) were responsible for well over half (56.8%) of the total tonnage for globally exported coffee.
The fastest gainers in terms of exported coffee tonnage were Netherlands (up 29.5% from 2021), Peru (up 23.6%), Indonesia (up 13.1%) then Italy (up 7%).
Year over year, the severest decliners among the world’s greatest coffee shippers by tonnage were Uganda (down -29.4%), Honduras (down -17%), Guatemala (down -14.1%) and Ethiopia (down -10%).
Average Unit Prices for Exported Coffee by Major Supplying Countries
The world’s average price for exported coffee was US$5,137 per ton in 2022. That benchmark is 36% higher than the $3,777 global average for 2018 and 27.3% greater than the average unit price of $4,034 per ton in 2021.
The list provides the average unit prices for coffee sold by the top 15 exporters by value in 2022. Entries are ranked in descending order starting with countries that shipped the highest dollar worth of exported coffee.
- Brazil: US$4,000 per ton of exported coffee (up 56.9% from 2021)
- Colombia: $6,390 per ton (up 40.4%)
- Switzerland: $31,279 per ton (down-5.5%)
- Germany: $5,967 per ton (up 21.6%)
- Vietnam: $2,408 per ton (up 51.3%)
- Italy: $7,637 per ton (up 5.4%)
- Honduras: $5,307 per ton (up 60%)
- Ethiopia: $5,527 per ton (up 41.4%)
- Belgium: $4,778 per ton (up 30.4%)
- United States: $8,014 per ton (up 10.2%)
- Peru: $5,011 per ton (up 26.8%)
- France: $19,771 per ton (down-11.1%)
- Indonesia: $2,624 per ton (up 18.4%)
- Guatemala: $5,752 per ton (up 39.9%)
- Netherlands: $6,747 per ton (down-5.4%)
The costliest coffee with the highest average cost per ton comes from Switzerland and France, well ahead of coffee shipped by suppliers in the United States of America and Italy.
The least expensive coffee is exported by Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil. The latter may well benefit from economies of scale given its world leadership in global coffee sales.
See also Coffee Imports by Country, Tea Exports by Country and Top Soft Drinks Exporters by Country
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on July 17, 2023
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on July 17, 2023
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on July 17, 2023
Wikipedia, List of coffee companies. Accessed on July 17, 2023
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