Coffee is a seasonal crop. Seasons vary from country to country, starting and finishing at different times throughout the year. This makes statistics on worldwide annual production very difficult to collate: any single twelve-month period may encompass a whole crop year in one country but will also include the tail end of the previous year’s crop and the beginning of the next year’s crop in others. In order to compare supply aggregates as well as supply with demand, where ever possible and appropriate on the website, all such data has been converted from crop year to coffee year (which runs from October to September), however it should be noted that this is not always possible.
Crop Years in producing countries
1 October-30 September
Benin
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Guatemala
Panama
Central African Republic
Guinea
Sierra Leone
Colombia
Honduras
Sri Lanka
Costa Rica
India
Thailand
Cote d’Ivoire
Jamaica
Togo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Trinidad & Tobago
El Salvador
Liberia
Uganda
Equatorial Guinea
Mexico
Venezuela
Ethiopia
Nicaragua
Vietnam
Gabon
1 April-31 March
Angola
Indonesia
Paraguay
Bolivia
Madagascar
Peru
Brazil
Malawi
Rwanda
Burundi
Papua New Guinea
Zimbabwe
Ecuador
1 July-30 June
Congo
Haiti
United Republic of Tanzania
Cuba
Philippines
Zambia