The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrad-labelled coffe and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countires.

The two different tables present regarding the purchase of ethically traded produce in the years 1999 and 2004 in five nations across Europe.

Overall

, in both years, the countries with the highest combined

sales

of fair-trade produce were the UK and

Switzerland

. In general,

sales

of fair-trade goods increased in the majority of nations. Notably, there was a slight drop in the sale of

bananas

in

Sweden

and Denmark between 1999 and 2004. Turning to the data more in detail, in 1999, the nations who sold the most

coffee

were

Switzerland

and Denmark with figures of 3 and 1.8 million euros respectively. In the same year,

Sweden

sold only 800,000 euros of

coffee

. 5 years later, there was a notably large increase in

sales

for the UK. The figure increased by over 10 times.

As a result

, it overtook

Switzerland

to become the leading

coffee

seller. By

this

time, the lowest

coffee

sales

continued to belong to

Sweden

. With regard to

bananas

, in 1999,

Switzerland

had the most

bananas

followed by Denmark. In 2004,

Switzerland

’s

sales

increased by over 3 times,

whereas

Demark’s consumer spending on

bananas

halved.

Sweden

showed a similar trend, where its

sales

went down from 1.8 to 1 million euros.