284 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. 



TABLE V. 



Showing per capita consumption of the principal countries of 

 the world in round numbers : 



rVnmtri* Consumption Per Capita 



(Pounds). (Pounds). 



Asia, 80,000,000 



Africa 50,000,000 i 



Australia, 10,000,000 2 



Austria, 10,000,000 2^ 



Belgium, 50,000,000 10 



Denmark, ' 25,000,000 6 



France, 100,000,000 2j4 



Germany, 180,000,000 5 



Greece, 2,000,000 o^ 



Holland, 70,000,000 14 



Italy 30,000,000 i 



Switzerland, 20,000,000 5 



Russia and Siberia, 15,000,000 



Sweden and Norway, .... 35,000,000 10 



Great Britain and Ireland, . . . 35,000,000 i 



United States and Canada, . . 600,000,000 6 



Mexico and Central America, . . 35,000,000 3 



West India Islands, 30,000,000 '.5 



South American States, . . . . 100,000,000 3 



What tea is to the United Kingdom coffee is to the 

 United States, the consumption of the latter in this 

 country increasing from 80,000,000 pounds in 1861 to 

 116,000,000 in 1871, and to over 400,000,000 pounds in 

 1 88 1, the consumption of coffee, at the present time in 

 this country, falling just short of the enormous figures 

 of 600,000,000 pounds. 



The use of coffee has been extending at an enormous 

 rate for the past 150 years, until at the present day it 

 is found in every civilized country and almost every un- 

 civilized country on the habitable globe. It has become 



