About this chart race
Vietnam is the whole story. It produced negligible amounts of coffee for the first three decades of this series, then expanded robusta planting in the Central Highlands so fast that it passed Colombia, Indonesia and every African producer within about fifteen years. That surge is a large part of why world coffee prices collapsed around the turn of the millennium. Angola shows the reverse: a top-five producer in the 1970s reduced to almost nothing by civil war.
This animated ranking shows how annual green coffee production changed across 14 series between 1961 and 2024. The bars re-order themselves as the years advance, so overtakes are visible as they happen rather than hidden inside a table. Use the list on the left to choose exactly who competes, drag the slider to jump to any year, or open the table view to read the underlying numbers.
As of 2024, Brazil leads with 3,388 thousand tonnes.
Included in this race
Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Honduras, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Peru, India, Central African Republic, Guatemala, Guinea.
Source
Data from FAOSTAT. Check the stated period and methodology. Animated transitions between source observations are visual interpolation, not additional measurements.
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