World Atlas of Coffee
Coffee grows in a narrow band around the equator. Here is who grows what, where, and when it is picked.
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Origins
Bolivia
Tiny volumes from the Yungas, and one of the most consistently high-scoring origins per bag produced.
3 growing regions
Brazil
More than a third of the world's coffee, and the reason the price is what it is.
4 growing regions
Burundi
Landlocked, entirely smallholder, and built around washing stations rather than farms.
3 growing regions
China
Yunnan grows almost all of it — and the country now drinks far more than it exports.
3 growing regions
Colombia
Arabica only, grown the length of three Andean ranges — and harvested somewhere almost year-round.
4 growing regions
Costa Rica
Arabica only — by law — and the country that made honey processing its own.
3 growing regions
Cuba
The Sierra Maestra, UNESCO-listed coffee ruins, and a crop that never recovered its former scale.
2 growing regions
Dominican Republic
Six recognised growing zones on one island half, and a crop mostly drunk before it can be exported.
2 growing regions
DR Congo
Kivu Arabica on the shores of Lake Kivu, rebuilt from almost nothing over the last fifteen years.
3 growing regions
Ecuador
One of the very few countries that grows both species well — and the only one that grows coffee on the Galápagos.
3 growing regions
El Salvador
The origin that kept its Bourbon when everyone else replanted — and gave the world Pacamara.
3 growing regions
Ethiopia
The birthplace of Arabica, and still the most genetically diverse coffee origin on earth.
4 growing regions
Guatemala
Eight recognised growing regions in a country the size of Ireland.
3 growing regions
Haiti
Half the world's coffee came from here in 1789. What survives is old Typica, grown in forest gardens.
3 growing regions
Hawaii (USA)
The only US state that grows coffee commercially, and the origin with the strictest labelling law in this atlas.
3 growing regions
Honduras
Central America's largest producer, and the region's quietest success story.
3 growing regions
India
Shade-grown under native forest in the Western Ghats, and the home of monsooned coffee.
4 growing regions
Indonesia
Thousands of islands, two species, and a processing method used almost nowhere else.
3 growing regions
Jamaica
Blue Mountain — the original luxury coffee brand, and one of the smallest crops in this atlas.
2 growing regions
Kenya
Small by volume, and one of the most distinctive cups in the world.
3 growing regions
Laos
Almost everything comes off one volcanic plateau in the far south.
2 growing regions
Malawi
The first place Arabica was planted in East Africa — and still one of its smallest producers.
3 growing regions
Mexico
The northernmost large Arabica origin, and the country that made organic coffee a market category.
3 growing regions
Myanmar
A specialty sector barely a decade old, built on Shan State highlands that had grown coffee for a century.
2 growing regions
Nicaragua
Three northern highland departments produce almost all of it, under some of the heaviest shade in Central America.
3 growing regions
Panama
Tiny production, and the most expensive coffee in the world.
2 growing regions
Papua New Guinea
Highland Arabica descended from Jamaican Blue Mountain seed, grown in village gardens.
3 growing regions
Peru
The largest organic coffee origin in the world, grown by smallholders on the eastern slope of the Andes.
4 growing regions
Philippines
One of the very few countries growing all four commercial coffee species — including Liberica, which almost nowhere else does.
3 growing regions
Rwanda
A specialty industry built almost from nothing in the last twenty-five years.
3 growing regions
Tanzania
An almost even split between Arabica and Robusta, from Kilimanjaro in the north to Mbeya in the south.
4 growing regions
Thailand
Southern Robusta by volume, northern Arabica by reputation — and the crop that replaced opium.
3 growing regions
Timor-Leste
Home of the Hibrido de Timor — the natural cross that rust-resistant breeding worldwide is built on.
3 growing regions
Uganda
Africa's largest coffee exporter, and one of the few places Robusta grows wild.
4 growing regions
Venezuela
Once a rival to Colombia; now almost entirely drunk at home, and rarely seen abroad.
3 growing regions
Vietnam
The world's second-largest producer, and the one that made Robusta a commodity at scale.
5 growing regions
Yemen
Where coffee was first cultivated as a crop, and still farmed much as it was.
2 growing regions
Zambia
A young, estate-led origin on the northern plateau, with a crop measured in the low hundreds of thousands of bags.
2 growing regions