STATISTICAL TABLES. 



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TABLE XII. — The Woeld's Constimftion of Coffee. 



(From the Bncyclopxdia Sritannica, 1877-78.) 



Countries. 



France 



Belgium 



Switzerland 



Eussia, European .... 



Sweden 



Norway 



Denmark 



Holland 



Hamburg (Germany). 



Austria (1871) 



Greece 



Italy (1871) 



United Kingdom 



TJuited States 



Total Imports of 



Coffee for 



Consumption. 



Pounds, 



98,635,000 

 49,771,000 

 18,779,500 

 14,740,920 

 26,555,218 

 17,636,080 

 26,035,652 

 72,395,800 



178,715,936 



76,876,576 



2,131,367 



28,511,560 



32,330,928 



293,293,833 



Average 

 Fer Head. 



Fonncts. 



2.73 



13.48 

 7.03 

 0.19 

 6.11 

 9.80 

 13.89 

 21.00 



2.13 

 1.43 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 7.61 



Increase In 

 Ten Years. 



Total 936,409,365 lbs., or 8JmiUions owt. , 



435,000 tons, excluding home consumption in producing countries. 



The Ceylon Directory estimates the world's consumption (usual, not maxi- 

 mum) as follows : 



Tons. 



Continent of Europe 300,000 



United States and Canada 140,000 



Mexico, Central America, and the West Indian Islands. 28,000 



Brazil and the rest of South America 86,500 



Asia, including Java and the Eastern Archipelago 76,000 



Africa* 35,000 



United Kingdom 15,000 



Australasia and Pacific Isles 6,000 



Total 686,500 



This is the average in a year of abundant production. In 1830 the world's 

 consumption of coffee was not more than 150,000 tons. 



TABLE XIII. 



Prof, Van Den Berg's Estimate of the Coffee Production of the Whole World, 



* Cape Colony has imported from Rio as much as 60,000 cwt. of coffee in one year. Algeria, at 

 the other end of the Continent, also imports 60,000 cwt.— OoMPrLEES. 



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