Luxembourg tops the 2025 estimates at about 5.3 cups per person per day, ahead of Finland and Sweden, though Finland leads the older kilogram-per-year tables. Every figure is one dataset’s estimate of average cups per resident, children included, so read it as a ranking of habits rather than an exact count.
Pictured: a video on why Finns drink so much coffee, Finland being #2 with 3.77 cups per person per day (Luxembourg, #1, has no suitable video).
| Rank | Country | Cups per person per day | Region | Data year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | 5.31 | Europe | 2025 |
| 2 | Finland | 3.77 | Europe | 2025 |
| 3 | Sweden | 2.59 | Europe | 2025 |
| 4 | Norway | 2.57 | Europe | 2025 |
| 5 | Denmark | 2.04 | Europe | 2025 |
| 6 | Austria | 2.03 | Europe | 2025 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 1.87 | Europe | 2025 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 1.79 | Europe | 2025 |
| 9 | Greece | 1.71 | Europe | 2025 |
| 10 | Germany | 1.61 | Europe | 2025 |
| 11 | Lebanon | 1.60 | Asia | 2025 |
| 12 | Brazil | 1.58 | Americas | 2025 |
| 13 (tie) | Canada | 1.57 | Americas | 2025 |
| 13 (tie) | Belgium | 1.57 | Europe | 2025 |
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How to read this. All rows come from one dataset: Cafely’s 2025 estimate of coffee cups consumed per person per day, as published in Visual Capitalist’s ranking of 65 countries and repeated by several outlets. It spreads national consumption across the whole population, children included, so it is much lower than the per-drinker figures you may see elsewhere. Cafely does not publish how it converts national totals into cups (cup size, or imports versus domestic disappearance), so treat every cross-country comparison as an estimate.[1] The kilogram view differs. Older tables attributed to the International Coffee Organization (ICO) rank by kilograms per person per year, and there Finland leads at about 12 kg, ahead of Norway (9.9), Iceland (9.0), Denmark (8.7) and the Netherlands (8.4); Iceland is not in the cups table above. Those blog-reported kilogram figures are several years old and vary by site, so they are used here only as a cross-check.[3] Luxembourg is inflated. About 47% of its jobs are held by cross-border commuters, whose coffee is counted in Luxembourg’s total while the divisor is only residents, so its lead overstates what residents drink.[2] The softest rows are ranks 11 to 13, where the gaps are 0.01 to 0.03 cups, and Canada and Belgium tie.
Luxembourg tops the 2025 daily-cups estimate at 5.31 per person, and it also leads the same dataset’s lifetime total of 118,227 cups.[1] The result carries a big asterisk: in 2023 cross-border workers held about 47% of the country’s jobs, mostly commuting from France, Belgium and Germany, and their coffee counts toward Luxembourg’s total.[2] That is why Finland, not Luxembourg, still leads the older kilogram-based tables.[3]
Finland drinks 3.77 cups per person per day in this dataset, and about 12 kg a year in the ICO-attributed kilogram tables, where it ranks first.[1][3] Filter coffee is the standard brew, and the twice-daily workplace “kahvitauko” (coffee break) is a fixture of the working day; guests visiting a home are almost always offered a pot.[4] Because the average includes children, adult Finns drink considerably more than the national figure.[4]
Sweden averages 2.59 cups a day.[1] The habit is organised around “fika”, a pause for coffee and usually something sweet, commonly taken around 10am and 3pm, and the word itself is the Swedish word for coffee with its syllables flipped.[5] Fika is on Sweden’s national list of living traditions, and it does not strictly require coffee, only a break.[5]
Norway sits just 0.02 cups behind Sweden at 2.57.[1] In the ICO-attributed kilogram tables it is regularly second, at about 9.9 kg per person per year.[3] Norwegian coffee is known for lighter roasts, and Oslo and Bergen both have active specialty-coffee scenes.[6]
Denmark drinks 2.04 cups a day, a hair ahead of Austria in this dataset.[1] The kilogram tables put it at about 8.7 kg per person per year.[3] Copenhagen is home to well-known specialty roasters such as Coffee Collective and La Cabra, and coffee is bound up with the Danish idea of hygge, a cosy, unhurried togetherness.[7]
Austria averages 2.03 cups a day.[1] Vienna’s coffee house culture was added to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list for Austria in 2011, and the tradition is that guests can linger over a single coffee with the newspapers for as long as they like without pressure to reorder.[8]
Switzerland drinks 1.87 cups per person per day, or about 7.9 kg a year in the older kilogram tables.[1][3] The “Café Crème” is described as a Swiss invention, originally called “Schümli Kaffee” after the foam (“Schäumchen”) on top, and Zurich has an internationally known specialty roaster in MAME.[9]
The Netherlands averages 1.79 cups a day, and the kilogram tables give about 8.4 kg per person per year, which is why it often ranks higher (fifth) there than here.[1][3] Rankings that use different years and methods place the Dutch anywhere from first to eighth, a reminder of how much these tables depend on the source.[10]
Greece drinks 1.71 cups a day.[1] The iced instant-coffee “frappé”, born in Thessaloniki, changed Greek coffee habits and is drunk at any time of day, while the traditional “kafenion” is a place where coffee is brewed slowly and conversation flows freely.[11]
Germany rounds out the top ten at 1.61 cups per person per day.[1] The ritual is “Kaffee und Kuchen”, coffee and cake in the mid-afternoon, usually shared with friends or family, and one Peruvian trade report citing ICO and other data put German consumption at about 6.5 kg per person.[3][12]