How many people drink coffee?

Since coffee was introduced to western civilization around three hundred years ago, the amount of people who drink coffee has exploded in numbers. It’s popularity, not just as a kick start to the day with that all important caffeine fix, but it a social beverage widely accepted as a ‘must have’ when visiting someone’s home.

From it’s origins in Ethiopia, to the first coffee bean roasting in Yemen and the wealthy coffee houses in the Sufi Muslim community, this ‘wine’ (as it was first known ) also seriously upset the French wine makers on it’s arrival in France in around 1675 as it was seen to be ‘stealing’  the wine connoisseurs customers.

You can read more about it’s origins and how this ‘wine’ affected so many people with it’s introduction to the West, including how it even upset the married women in London in my article on the History of Coffee. You will also read about how these first coffee houses started the lifestyle changes amongst the Islamic world, particularly in Egypt and Persia.

So how many people actually drink coffee?

In the United States alone around 54% of adults drink coffee on a daily basis. Whether it’s for that kick start in the morning, which I thoroughly enjoy, or if it’s just because there is a coffee machine at the office, people everywhere love the sometimes bitter taste of this dark brown and mysterious beverage we call gourmet coffee!