The United States drinks more coffee than any single country in the world. But very little of that coffee comes from beans grown in the US — aside from a small fraction grown in Hawaii, all of America’s coffee comes imported from countries including Brazil, Colombia, and Switzerland.
How much coffee do Americans drink?
Americans consume more than one cup of coffee per person daily. That’s equivalent to about 169.1 billion six-ounce cups of coffee, or 463 million per day.
Americans drank 169.1 billion cups of coffee in 2024–2025.
Total domestic consumption in six-ounce cups of coffee per year
By comparison, US coffee consumption was equal to 64% of the coffee consumed in all European Union countries combined. After that, overall coffee consumption was highest in Brazil, the Philippines, and Japan.
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How much coffee is produced in the US?
Hardly any of the coffee consumed in the US is brewed from homegrown beans — and none of it is produced in the lower 48.
All of the nation’s coffee farming happens in Hawaii, where 4.2 million pounds were harvested and utilized — meaning either sold or stored, but not damaged or unused — in 2024. In other words, the country consumed nearly 800 times as much coffee as it produced.
The US produced 4.2 million pounds of coffee in 2024.
US utilized production of coffee, in pounds of green coffee beans
Where else does the US get coffee?
Colombia and Brazil have been the top two countries exporting coffee to the US in each year since at least 2009. The two South American nations have swapped the top spot back and forth — in 2024, Brazil led with $1.96 billion worth of coffee exported to the US compared to Colombia’s $1.48 billion, according to International Trade Administration data.
Switzerland has become a main source of coffee
In recent years, Switzerland has risen to become one of the world’s top coffee exporters to the US. In 2009, Switzerland ranked 14th in the world with $45 million’s worth of exported coffee to the US ($66 million in 2024 dollars). By 2020, they ranked third after Colombia and Brazil. They’ve stayed in third since, exporting $1.18 billion of coffee to the US in 2024 — more than 17 times as much as in 2009 after adjusting for inflation.
Brazil and Colombia have been the top coffee exporters to the US — and Switzerland has risen to third.
Top 10 countries by annual coffee exports to the US (2023 USD)
This doesn’t mean that the small Alpine nation has developed a robust coffee farming industry. Most of Switzerland’s global coffee exports come in the form of roast and ground coffee — as opposed to coffee beans, which are the main export for coffee-exporting heavyweights such as Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam. Switzerland is one of the top global importers of coffee beans. Its roasting industry is a top supplier for not only the US but also for other importers like South Korea.
Together, Colombia, Brazil, and Switzerland accounted for over half of the $8.8 billion of coffee imported by the US in 2024. The countries with the next-most coffee exports to the US were Canada ($582 million), Guatemala ($437 million), and Honduras ($423 million).
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Page sources and methodology
All of the data on the page was sourced directly from government agencies. The analysis and final review was performed by USAFacts.
Department of Agriculture
Coffee: World Markets and Trade
Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Statistics Service
