The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
The two tables illustrate the
consumption
of Fairtrade-labelled coffee
and bananas between 1999 and 2005 in the UK, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden.
The first table shows the sales of coffee
experienced an upward trend over a period of 5 years, even though only the UK had a considerable increase from 1.5 million
euros to 20 million
euros. In contrast
, the other four countries' consumption
of coffee
only slightly rose, Switzerland stayed in the top position with a 3 million
increase, which was twice as much as sales in 1999 . Meanwhile, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden grew only 0.2, 0.7 and 0.2 million
, respectively.
In the second table , the rise of banana sales in Switzerland was noticeable from 15 to 47 topped the list in these 5 years. Similarly
, the UK and Belgium had also
significantly grown from 1 to 5.5 million
and 0.6 to 4 million
, increasing by more than five and six times, respectively. However
, there were 0.8 and 1.1 million
drops in the consumption
of Sweden and Denmark, respectively.
Overall
, the amount of bananas consumption
was more than Replace the word
consumed
coffee
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