Coffee consumption in the United States amounted to over ** million 60-kilogram bags in the 2024/2025 fiscal year. This is a slight increase from the total U.S. coffee consumption in the previous fiscal year. Coffee production The coffee plant has its origins in Ethiopia and is now grown all over the world. Most of the world’s coffee is cultivated in South America, followed by Asia and Oceania. In 2024, over ***million 60-kilogram bags of coffee were produced in South America. The majority of South America’s coffee production is attributed to Brazil. In the 2023/2024 fiscal year, global coffee production reached *** million 60-kilogram bags. Coffee brewing in the United States Americans love their coffee and have dozens of different methods and gadgets for brewing and preparing coffee. A 2025 survey of U.S. consumers found that the most commonly used coffee preparation methods were drip coffee makers and single-cup brewers. However, drip coffee makers have become less popular over time. In 2012, ***percent of coffee drinkers used drip coffee makers, while in 2025 this share had dropped to ***percent.

U.S. consumers demand variety, quality, and convenience in the foods they consume. As Americans have become wealthier and more ethnically diverse, the American food basket reflects a growing share of tropical products, spices, and imported gourmet products. Seasonal and climatic factors drive U.S. imports of popular types of fruits and vegetables and tropical products, such as cocoa and coffee. In addition, a growing share of U.S. imports can be attributed to intra-industry trade, whereby agricultural-processing industries based in the United States carry out certain processing steps offshore and import products at different levels of processing from their subsidiaries in foreign markets. This data set provides import values of edible products (food and beverages) entering U.S. ports and their origin of shipment. Data are from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau. Food and beverage import values are compiled by calendar year into food groups corresponding to major commodities or level of processing. At least 10 years of annual data are included, enabling users to track long-term growth patterns.