From 2022 to 2023, the value of worldwide coffee exports fell by -9% compared to $46.4 billion.
The 5 biggest international coffee shippers (Brazil, Switzerland, Germany, Vietnam and Colombia) accounted for over two-fifths (42.8%) of all exported coffee during the latest annual reporting period.
From a continental perspective, suppliers in Europe sold the highest dollar value worth of exported coffee on international markets in 2023 with total shipments valued at $16.2 billion or 38.4% of the world’s total value. In second place at 35.3% were sellers in Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, ahead of coffee competitors located in Asia with a 13.1% share.
Smaller percentages were generated by providers in Africa (6.9%), North America (5.7%), then Oceania (0.7%) led by Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand.
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 2023.
- Brazil: US$7.4 billion (17.4% of total coffee exports)
- Switzerland: $3.6 billion (8.6%)
- Germany: $3.41 billion (8.1%)
- Vietnam: $3.38 billion (8%)
- Colombia: $2.91 billion (6.9%)
- Italy: $2.6 billion (6.1%)
- Honduras: $1.7 billion (3.9%)
- Belgium: $1.31 billion (3.1%)
- France: $1.27 billion (3%)
- Ethiopia: $1.22 billion (2.9%)
- Netherlands: $1.2 billion (2.8%)
- United States: $1.19 billion (2.8%)
- Guatemala: $949.1 million (2.2%)
- Indonesia: $929.1 million (2.2%)
- Uganda: $831.7 million (2%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped about four-fifths (80.1%) of global coffee exports in 2023.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing coffee exporters from 2022 to 2023 were: Vietnam (up 14.5%), Italy (up 9%), Netherlands (up 8.3%) and France (up 7.2%).
Those countries that posted declines in their exported coffee sales were led by: Colombia (down -29.1% from 2022), Indonesia (down -19.1%), Ethiopia (down -19%), Guatemala (down -15%) and Brazil (down -14%).
Countries Earning Biggest Surpluses from Trading Coffee
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for coffee during 2023. 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$7.2 billion (net export surplus up 61.6% since 2019)
- Vietnam: $3.3 billion (up 52.6%)
- Colombia: $2.7 billion (up 16%)
- Switzerland: $2.4 billion (up 36.4%)
- Honduras: $1.7 billion (up 73.3%)
- Ethiopia: $1.2 billion (up 54%)
- Guatemala: $946.4 million (up 42.8%)
- Uganda: $831.3 million (up 94.6%)
- Peru: $823.1 million (up 33.4%)
- Indonesia: $812.1 million (down -0.6%)
- Nicaragua: $609.1 million (up 32.4%)
- India: $554.7 million (up 44.6%)
- Costa Rica: $306.7 million (up 20.6%)
- Mexico: $286.4 million (up 48.7%)
- Papua New Guinea: $263.8 million (up 149.8%)
World-leader 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 2023. 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$7 billion (net export deficit up 39.5% since 2019)
- France: -$2 billion (up 36.6%)
- Japan: -$1.5 billion (up 26.3%)
- Germany: -$1.2 billion (up 36.1%)
- South Korea: -$1.1 billion (up 67.9%)
- United Kingdom: -$1.09 billion (up 55.5%)
- Spain: -$972.9 million (up 39.8%)
- Canada: -$972.6 million (up 39.9%)
- China: -$722.6 million (up 514.3%)
- Australia: -$589.6 million (up 39.9%)
- Poland: -$463.3 million (up 82.5%)
- Russia: -$447.1 million (down -24.7%)
- Saudi Arabia: -$432.2 million (up 81.7%)
- Türkiye: -$405.3 million (up 117%)
- Austria: -$369.7 million (up 12.6%)
The United States of America posted the biggest deficit in the international trade of coffee. In turn, this negative cashflow confirms America’s strong competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for coffee-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful consumer demand.
Searchable List of Coffee Exporting Countries in 2023
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns below. The right-most column highlights the percentage change in the value of globally exported coffee from 2022 to 2023.
| Rank | Exporter | Coffee Exports (US$) | 2022-3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Brazil | $7,350,813,000 | -14% |
| 2. | Switzerland | $3,644,360,000 | +6.5% |
| 3. | Germany | $3,408,089,000 | -0.8% |
| 4. | Vietnam | $3,378,915,000 | +14.5% |
| 5. | Colombia | $2,914,733,000 | -29.1% |
| 6. | Italy | $2,586,285,000 | +9% |
| 7. | Honduras | $1,656,485,000 | -4.1% |
| 8. | Belgium | $1,309,712,000 | -10.8% |
| 9. | France | $1,270,691,000 | +7.2% |
| 10. | Ethiopia | $1,224,993,000 | -19% |
| 11. | Netherlands | $1,199,691,000 | +8.3% |
| 12. | United States | $1,193,489,000 | -0.5% |
| 13. | Guatemala | $949,105,000 | -15% |
| 14. | Indonesia | $929,135,000 | -19.1% |
| 15. | Uganda | $831,655,000 | -3.2% |
| 16. | Peru | $829,282,000 | -32.9% |
| 17. | Canada | $763,580,000 | -10.3% |
| 18. | India | $747,178,000 | -1.8% |
| 19. | Nicaragua | $609,438,000 | -14.9% |
| 20. | Poland | $538,693,000 | +5% |
| 21. | Mexico | $433,828,000 | -32.5% |
| 22. | Spain | $419,426,000 | +9.3% |
| 23. | Costa Rica | $351,363,000 | -6.6% |
| 24. | Papua New Guinea | $264,584,000 | +7.5% |
| 25. | Kenya | $260,983,000 | -20.1% |
| 26. | United Kingdom | $234,148,000 | -16.6% |
| 27. | Tanzania | $232,466,000 | +27.1% |
| 28. | Czech Republic | $228,102,000 | +16.2% |
| 29. | Sweden | $204,354,000 | 0% |
| 30. | Slovakia | $150,183,000 | -14.9% |
| 31. | El Salvador | $147,115,000 | -16.9% |
| 32. | Austria | $146,277,000 | +18.1% |
| 33. | Denmark | $132,886,000 | +21.7% |
| 34. | Portugal | $129,747,000 | +6.6% |
| 35. | Lithuania | $117,118,000 | +0.6% |
| 36. | Bulgaria | $97,992,000 | -0.3% |
| 37. | Rwanda | $92,676,000 | -79% |
| 38. | mainland China | $77,899,000 | -64.4% |
| 39. | Laos | $76,331,000 | -50.2% |
| 40. | Côte d'Ivoire | $62,057,000 | -34.8% |
| 41. | Slovenia | $61,845,000 | +13.7% |
| 42. | Türkiye | $60,131,000 | -7.7% |
| 43. | Singapore | $55,350,000 | +3.5% |
| 44. | Luxembourg | $54,481,000 | -11.4% |
| 45. | Burundi | $53,432,000 | +26% |
| 46. | Hungary | $46,333,000 | -17% |
| 47. | Finland | $45,855,000 | -49.5% |
| 48. | Malaysia | $44,414,000 | +47.8% |
| 49. | Greece | $34,345,000 | +31.4% |
| 50. | Cameroon | $30,441,000 | -1.7% |
| 51. | Panama | $29,887,000 | +9.6% |
| 52. | Estonia | $26,897,000 | +22.7% |
| 53. | Jamaica | $25,858,000 | +12.8% |
| 54. | Ireland | $23,546,000 | +15.8% |
| 55. | Croatia | $23,350,000 | +20.7% |
| 56. | Zambia | $23,117,000 | -2.7% |
| 57. | Australia | $22,820,000 | -6.9% |
| 58. | Romania | $22,522,000 | +7% |
| 59. | Japan | $22,064,000 | -22.5% |
| 60. | South Africa | $21,547,000 | +8.1% |
| 61. | Armenia | $21,222,000 | -3.1% |
| 62. | Dominican Republic | $19,940,000 | -44.6% |
| 63. | Timor-Leste | $19,865,000 | -84.2% |
| 64. | Democratic Rep. Congo | $19,368,000 | -37.4% |
| 65. | Russia | $17,394,000 | -31.8% |
| 66. | Serbia | $15,243,000 | +13.1% |
| 67. | Taiwan | $14,118,000 | +1.4% |
| 68. | Hong Kong | $13,344,000 | +48.3% |
| 69. | Lebanon | $12,930,000 | -50.1% |
| 70. | Ecuador | $12,611,000 | -55.5% |
| 71. | Bolivia | $11,734,000 | -28% |
| 72. | Congo | $11,501,000 | 0% |
| 73. | Guinea | $11,467,000 | -67.1% |
| 74. | Uruguay | $10,532,000 | +10.8% |
| 75. | Myanmar | $9,939,000 | -25.5% |
| 76. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $8,711,000 | +10.3% |
| 77. | United Arab Emirates | $8,616,000 | -93% |
| 78. | Djibouti | $8,545,000 | +14.9% |
| 79. | Norway | $8,340,000 | +40.4% |
| 80. | Togo | $8,293,000 | -3.1% |
| 81. | Venezuela | $7,408,000 | -78.1% |
| 82. | South Korea | $7,274,000 | +16.3% |
| 83. | Jordan | $6,468,000 | -65.5% |
| 84. | Yemen | $6,012,000 | -76.5% |
| 85. | Thailand | $4,931,000 | +35.6% |
| 86. | Cuba | $4,123,000 | -30.8% |
| 87. | Sierra Leone | $3,860,000 | -31.7% |
| 88. | Syria | $3,461,000 | -24.8% |
| 89. | Ukraine | $2,744,000 | +85.9% |
| 90. | Angola | $2,704,000 | 0% |
| 91. | New Zealand | $2,670,000 | -6.8% |
| 92. | Kazakhstan | $2,384,000 | +56.7% |
| 93. | Albania | $2,364,000 | +3052% |
| 94. | North Macedonia | $2,199,000 | +13.5% |
| 95. | Egypt | $2,044,000 | -15.5% |
| 96. | Morocco | $2,002,000 | -10.7% |
| 97. | Malawi | $1,597,000 | -34.6% |
| 98. | Cyprus | $1,472,000 | +79.5% |
| 99. | Macao | $1,377,000 | +25.5% |
| 100. | Israel | $1,377,000 | -41.3% |
The 100 top exporters of coffee accounted for 99.97% of the total value of globally exported coffee during 2023.
Biggest Exporters of Coffee by Shipment Weight
In 2023, 8.46 million tons of coffee was exported around the world. That physical volume results from a -7.6% decrease from 9.2 million tons for 2019 and includes a flatlining -0.2% drop compared to the 8.475 million tons in 2022.
Listed below are the 15 leading coffee exporters ranked by tonnage shipped. These 15 leaders generated 85.1% of overall exported coffee sales.
- Brazil: 2,121,038 tons of exported coffee (down -0.7% from 2022)
- Vietnam: 1,301,059 tons (up 97.3%)
- Colombia: 591,665 tons (down -7.9%)
- Germany: 551,915 tons (down -4.1%)
- Honduras: 340,405 tons (up 5.3%)
- Italy: 304,821 tons (down -0.6%)
- Uganda: 280,611 tons (down -24.4%)
- Indonesia: 279,996 tons (down -36.1%)
- Belgium: 256,520 tons (down -16.5%)
- Ethiopia: 236,076 tons (down -13.8%)
- India: 233,332 tons (down -14%)
- Peru: 204,798 tons (down -17%)
- Guatemala: 182,384 tons (down -6%)
- Netherlands: 170,510 tons (up 6.1%)
- United States: 145,590 tons (down -2.7%)
The top 5 exporters of coffee by shipment weight (Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Germany and Honduras) were responsible for almost three-fifths (58%) of the total tonnage for globally exported coffee.
The greatest gainers in terms of exported coffee tonnage were sellers located in Vietnam (up 15.4% from 2022), Netherlands (up 6.1%) then Honduras (up 5.3%).
Year over year, the severest decliners among the world’s greatest coffee shippers by tonnage were Indonesia (down -36.1%), Uganda (down -24.4%), Peru (down -17%), Belgium (down -16.5%), India (down -14%) and Ethiopia (down -13.8%).
Average Unit Prices for Exported Coffee by Major Supplying Countries
The world’s average price for exported coffee was US$4,997 per ton in 2023. That benchmark is 54.5% higher than the $3,234 global average for 2019 but -8.8% lesser than the average unit price of $5,480 per ton in 2022.
The list provides the average unit prices for coffee sold by the top 15 exporters by value in 2023. Entries are ranked in descending order starting with countries that shipped the highest dollar worth of exported coffee.
- Brazil: US$3,466 per ton of exported coffee (down-13.4% from 2022)
- Switzerland: $35,492 per ton (up 13.5%)
- Germany: $6,175 per ton (up 3.4%)
- Vietnam: $2,597 per ton (down-42%)
- Colombia: $4,926 per ton (down-22.9%)
- Italy: $8,485 per ton (up 9.7%)
- Honduras: $4,866 per ton (down-8.9%)
- Belgium: $5,106 per ton (up 6.9%)
- France: $20,802 per ton (up 5.7%)
- Ethiopia: $5,189 per ton (down-6.1%)
- Netherlands: $7,036 per ton (up 2%)
- United States: $8,198 per ton (up 2.3%)
- Guatemala: $5,204 per ton (down-9.5%)
- Indonesia: $3,318 per ton (up 26.4%)
- Uganda: $2,964 per ton (up 28%)
The costliest coffee with the highest average cost per ton comes from Switzerland and France, well ahead of coffee shipped by suppliers like the United States of America and the Netherlands.
The least expensive coffee is exported by Vietnam, Uganda, Indonesia and Brazil. The latter may well benefit from economies of scale given its world leadership in global coffee sales.
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)
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 4, 2024
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on July 4, 2024
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on July 4, 2024
Wikipedia, List of coffee companies. Accessed on July 4, 2024
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