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Which country consumes the most coffee?

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Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

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Whenever I see outliers like Luxembourg in these stats, I wonder if there's something fishy with taxes and/or accounting going on there. Or may be just citizens of neighboring countries going shopping to Luxembourg for tax-related reasons?

Lots of residents of nearby countries _work_ in Luxembourg, AIUI. Not a tax thing; it's just very small.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

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Is this article correct? > Interestingly, the list also includes non-traditional coffee-consuming countries such as Lebanon and Brazil, which could be attributed to the global spread of coffee-related business and culture Really? Both Brazil and Lebanon are traditional coffee consuming countries. Brazil in particular is the largest producer of coffee in the world and coffee is everywhere, since pretty much forever.

This just made me think am I missing something? Brazil is a huge coffee producer and Lebanon as an Arab country must have been exposed to coffee ages ago.

Also, I don't see any questioning of Luxembourg stats. Almost six cups per capita cannot sound right, the country size must have skewed the results.

All in all, casts doubt on the rest of the article.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

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> An analysis of the correlation between per capita coffee consumption and life expectancy across countries indicates a moderately positive correlation of around 0.577, suggesting there exists a slightly strong correlation between the two metrics.

> Due to the moderately strong correlation, performing RA on those metrics suggests that each additional kilogram of coffee consumed per person annually could potentially raise life expectancy by 1.22%.

I would imagine this to be a "correlation is not causation" situation. Countries with high coffee consumption per capita are generally developed countries.

Re: Which country consumes the most coffee?

#28

United Kingdom just doesn't drink coffee? I don't think so... according to this we manage 98M cups of coffee a day https://balancecoffee.co.uk/blogs/blog/coffee-consumption-st...

I suspect they got their European source data from Eurostat, and since Brexit Meant Brexit, Eurostat hasn't covered the UK for most datasets. You see this shape of map (Europe minus some Balkans and the UK) a fair bit, for that reason.
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