Crop years in coffee producing countries

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.