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

The tables illustrate the number of

sales

in

million

euros

of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in five European countries in two years, 1999 and 2004.

Overall

, the first and second place in usage of both coffee and bananas is for

UK

and

Switzerland

in 1999 and 2004

while

Sweden almost has the least consumption of both in those years.

Switzerland

sold 3

million

euros

of Fairtrade-labelled of coffee in 1999 which was two times more than the

UK

.

Conversely

,

UK

sales

were slightly 3 times more than

Switzerland

in 2004. The

sales

of Denmark and Sweden remained steady and changed to only 0.2

million

euros

but 70%

sales

increasing recorded for Denmark, from 1 to 1.7 MM

euros

. The amount of

sales

for bananas was 15

million

euros

for

Switzerland

in 1999 which increases to 47

million

euros

.

However

, the most rate of growth belonged to the

UK

which is 5.5 multiplying, from 1 to 5.5 MM

euros

. The only country that decreased, was Denmark with approximately becoming half from 2 to 0.9

million

euros

.