The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffe and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

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

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant
The two tables provide data on the
sales
of Fairtrade-labelled
coffee
and bananas in five European countries (
UK
,
Switzerland
,
Denmark
,
Belgium
, and
Sweden
) in 1999 and 2004.
Overall
,
coffee
sales
increased in all five countries between 1999 and 2004, with the
UK
showing the most significant growth. Banana
sales
also
rose across most countries, with the
UK
,
Switzerland
, and
Denmark
experiencing substantial increases,
while
Belgium
and
Sweden
saw a decline. In 1999,
Switzerland
had the highest
coffee
sales
at 3
million
euros
, followed by
Denmark
(1.8
million
), the
UK
(1.5
million
),
Belgium
(1
million
), and
Sweden
(0.8
million
). By 2004,
coffee
sales
in the
UK
soared to 20
million
euros
,
while
Switzerland
's doubled to 6
million
euros
.
Denmark
,
Belgium
, and
Sweden
saw smaller increases, with
sales
reaching 2
million
, 1.7
million
, and 1
million
euros
, respectively. For bananas, the
UK
had the highest
sales
in both years, starting at 15
million
euros
in 1999 and rising dramatically to 47
million
euros
by 2004.
Switzerland
saw its banana
sales
increase from 1
million
euros
to 5.5
million
,
while
Denmark
's
sales
rose from 0.6
million
to 4
million
.
Conversely
, banana
sales
in
Belgium
and
Sweden
fell by half, from 1.8
million
to 1
million
in
Belgium
and from 2
million
to 0.9
million
in
Sweden
.
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