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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