The tables give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five countries.

The two charts compare the amount of money spent on Fairtrade-labelled coffee and

bananas

in five European countries between 1999 and 2004.

Overall

,

it is clear that

almost all sales numbers witnessed an increase over the period shown, apart from the figures for

bananas

sold in Belgium and Sweden. The UK saw by far the biggest consumer of the two products among those nations,

whereas

Sweden consumed the least of the two products. There were varying degrees of increase in the spending of Fairtrade-labelled coffee in those nations, in which Switzerland doubled the figure, rising from 3 to 6

million

euros,

while

the money spent in the UK witnessed a significant rise, with a more than thirteenfold increase from 1999, at €20

million

.

Although

the expenditure on Fairtrade coffee in the rest of the countries

also

grew to a certain extent, none of them outnumbered €2

million

. When it comes to the spending on Fairtrade-labelled

bananas

, the number of outgoings in Britain rose to €47

million

, which exceeded the total number of other countries combined. The money spent in Switzerland and Denmark increased above fivefold and sevenfold, at €5.5 and 4

million

respectively.

On the other hand

, the expenditures on Fairtrade

bananas

were approximately halved in Demark and Belgium, declining from €1.8 to 1

million

and €2 to 0.9

million

, respectively.