the tables below give information about sales of fairtraide labelled bananas and coffee

The table shows information about the Fairtrade labelled bananas and coffee

sales

comparing the years 1999 and 2004.

Overall

the

sales

of coffee increased from 1990 to 2004 in each country but the one that had the biggest rise was the UK, meanwhile, the data for the

sales

of bananas was relatively similar, there were some variances especially in Belgium and Sweden because the number of

sales

decreased. Even though all the

sales

of countries that sold coffee went up, the figures for the UK increased significantly from 1.5 million in 1999 to 20 million in 2004,

while

the

sales

for Denmark and Sweden did not grow as much, just 0.2 from 1.8 to 2 and 0.8 to 1 respectively.

On the other hand

,

sales

in Switzerland and Denmark rose from 3 to 6 and 1 to 1.7 in 2004.

However

, the

sales

of bananas were less consistent, some countries presented positive numbers but others didn't . The UK had an important rise from 15 to 47, Switzerland from 1 to 5.5 and Denmark from 0.6 to 4, but the

sales

in other countries fell like Belgium from 1.8 to 1 and Sweden from 2 to 0.9.