It's official: China is drinking more coffee and increasing purchases from Brazil by more than 200%

China is drinking more coffee and this is already consolidated information in the market. For some years now, tea has been losing ground as the second most consumed drink in the world and the most recent data shows that the Asian country has even consumed a lot of coffee from Brazil. In 2023, China purchased 1.480 million bags of coffee from Brazil, the volume represents an increase of 278.6% compared to 2022 when the purchase was 390,879 bags. With last year's volume, China even jumped to 6th place in the ranking of the main coffee buyers in Brazil. In the last two decades, coffee consumption in China has more than doubled, going from 231 thousand 60kg bags to 2.8 million in 2022. The data are from the International Coffee Organization. Furthermore, the Asian power has also surpassed the United States as the largest branded coffee market in the world, with 49,690 points of sale, according to the latest analysis from the World Coffee Portal. In Brazil, the sector's expectation is ...