The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
The tables describe how much Fairtrade-labelled
coffee
and bananas were bought in five countries
of Europe in millions of euros
in 1999 and 2004.
Overall
, it can be seen that while
sales
of bananas increased in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Belgium and decreased in Sweden and Denmark, coffee
sales
showed a climb in all five countries
in 2004.
In both years, people
in Switzerland bought far more bananas than people
in the other four countries
, with sales
rising significantly from 15 to 47 million
euros
. Banana sales
in the UK and Belgium went up, to 5.5 and 4 million
euros
, respectively, whereas
sales
in Sweden and Denmark represented a decline, to 1 and 0.9 million
euros
, respectively.
Only 1.5 million
euros
of coffee
was sold in the UK in 1999; however
, sales
in this
country increased dramatically to 20 million
euros
in 2004, which was the highest across the five countries
that year. Although
people
in Switzerland were the biggest coffee
buyers in 1999 with 3 million
euros
in sales
, this
figure displayed a relatively small growth to 6 million
euros
in 2004. People
in Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden bought more coffee
in 2004, but the increase was slight, to 2, 1.7, and 1 million
euros
, respectively.Submitted by maryam.veiszadeh on
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