COFFEE. 



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shows the consumption of coffee in the United Kingdom, and the 

 average quantity consumed by each individual of the population 

 during the present century : 



Years. 



Quantity, lbs. 



Population of the 

 Kingdom. 



Average per 

 Individual. 



1801 to 1804 



1,013,854 



16,093,000 



0-1 



1805 „ 1809 



2,897,401 



17,147,000 



0-3 



1810 „ 1814 



7,218,374 



18,295,000 



0-6 



1814 „ 1819 



7,969,189 



19,765,000 

 21,335,000 

 22,907,000 



0-6 



1820 „ 1824 



7,816,725 



0-6 



1825 „ 1829 



15,284,597 



0-11 



1830 „ 1834 



22,972,933 



24,328,000 



0-15 



1835 „ 1839 



25,429,063 



25,653,000 

 27,023,000 



1-0 



1840 „ 1844 



29,377,326 



11 



1845 „ 1849 



35,993,207 



27,929,000 

 27,699,000 



1-5 



1850 „ 1854 



34,596,676 



1-4 



1855 „ 1857 



35,037,880 



28,007,000 



1-28 



1858 „ 1860 



35,011,922 



28,586,000 



1-22 



1861 „ 1863 



34,138,967 



29,191,000 



1-17 



1864 „ 1866 

 1867 



30,832,219 



29,760,000 



1-03 



31,282,023 



30,157,000 



1-04 



1868 



30,356,818 



30,381,000 



1-00 



1869 



28,839,100 



30,611,000 



0-94 



1870 



30,629,710 



30,829,000 



0-98 



1871 



31,010,615 



31,048,000 



0-97 



1872 



31,650,192 



31,836,000 



0-98 



1873 



31,930,928 



32,124,000 



0-99 



1874 



31,252,368 



32,426,000 



9-96 



1875 



32,048,016 



32,737,000 



0-90 



General Consumption. — Co£fee may be said to form almost the ex- 

 clusive dietetic warm beverage of 100,000,000 of the human race. 



The principal countries using it largely, besides Turkey and Egypt, 

 are the Austrian and German Empires, France, Holland, Belgium, 

 Switzerland and the Scandinavian States, Great Britain and the United 

 States. In some of these, as the ZoUverein, Belgium, Holland, Norway, 

 Sweden, Denmark, and the United States, &c., the consumption is from 

 7 to 14 lbs. per head. 



The statistical department of Denmark recently compiled a state- 

 ment of the consumption of the chief dietetic articles in several 

 European countries, taking the period 1860-71 (except for the ZoU- 

 verein, which rests on data of 1850). The following were shown to 

 be the proportions of coffee then used per head of the population : 



Lbs. Lbs. 



France 2-32 Norway 6-30 



Great Britain .. 0*95 Sweden 3*28 



Belgium 8*60 Denmark 4*90 



Zollverein 3-94 



Taking, however, the latest year's complete return we have at com- 

 mand of the imports of coffee retained for consumption, we arrive at 

 the following results, showing the gross and individual consumption, 

 which are somewhat different to those given above. 



