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

The tables provide data about the amount of money, in millions of euros, earned by selling Fair-labelled

coffee

and bananas in the UK, Switzerland, Denmark,

Belgium

, and

Sweden

in the years 1999 and 2004.

Overall

, when these data are scrutinized, it can be vividly seen that the sales of

coffee

experienced an upward trend.

However

, banana sales in two countries,

Belgium

and

Sweden

, showed a decrease,

while

the rest of the three countries grew noticeably. In terms of

coffee

, the total

coffee

sales in the UK were at 1.5

million

in 1999 and rose sharply to 20

million

in 2004. Over 5 years, Switzerland climbed up two-fold to 6

million

in 2004, in 1999 which was 3

million

. Denmark and

Sweden

had a slide growth of 0.2

million

, reaching 2 and 1

million

respectively, and

Belgium

also

increased from 1 to 1.7 throughout the period.

By contrast

, regarding bananas, in 1999, the UK was recorded at 15

million

euros,

then

jumped more than three times to 47

million

in 2004.

Additionally

, Switzerland and

Belgium

took up 5.5 and 4.6

million

respectively in 2004, which were at 1 and 0.6 at the beginning.

On the other hand

,

Sweden

and

Belgium

witnessed a marginal decline from 1.8 and 2 in 1999

million

to 1 and 0.9 in 2004.