The World's Top Coffee-Producing Countries

Ten countries account for the large majority of the world's coffee. Brazil and Vietnam alone supply well over half of it between them, and the rest of the top ten is filled mostly by Latin American and African growers. Jamaica, source of the prized Blue Mountain crop, is far too small a producer to make this list at all.

Which Countries Produce the Most Coffee?

The table below uses the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service estimate for the 2025/26 season, the most recent complete figures available, measured in thousand 60-kilogram bags — the standard unit coffee trade statistics use worldwide.

World production across all producing countries came to an estimated 178.8 million 60-kg bags in 2025/26, according to the same USDA circular.

How to Read the Table: Bags and Marketing Years

The 60-kilogram bag (about 132 pounds) is the coffee trade's standard unit, used by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service and cited alongside the International Coffee Organization's own price data, which is why trade figures are rarely quoted in tons. Marketing years also vary by country, following each origin's own harvest calendar rather than the standard calendar year: Brazil's coffee year runs July through June, most Central American, African and South Asian producers use October through September, and countries including Indonesia and Peru use April through March.

A Closer Look at the Top Producers

• Brazil grows both arabica and robusta and alone accounts for nearly 40 percent of world production; arabica trees there follow a natural biennial cycle of higher- and lower-yielding years, and Minas Gerais state alone grows over 70 percent of the country's arabica, per USDA's July 2026 report.
• Vietnam is overwhelmingly a robusta producer, supplying more than 40 percent of the world's robusta, according to Wikipedia's Coffea canephora entry; expanding growing area and rising yields drove its recent gains.
• Colombia grows almost entirely washed arabica; USDA credits improved soil moisture and heavier fertilizer and pesticide use for its recent output increase.
• Indonesia's output spans Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi and leans heavily robusta; about three-quarters of the country's robusta grows in the lowlands of southern Sumatra and Java, per USDA.
• Ethiopia, the historic birthplace of arabica, owes recent growth partly to replacing more than half its cultivated area with higher-yielding coffee varieties over the past four years, USDA reports.
• Uganda sits within robusta's native African range and grows both species, with exports climbing as growing area expands.
• India grows shade-scattered arabica and robusta; recent USDA figures show output holding roughly steady year to year.
• Honduras is Central America's largest coffee producer; USDA attributes recent growth to expanding area and favorable weather, with Honduras alone accounting for nearly all of the region's recent gains.
• Peru's mostly smallholder-grown arabica has posted rising yields for several recent seasons, per USDA.
• Mexico grows predominantly arabica on smallholder farms, with steady, modest output growth in USDA's recent seasons.

Where Does Jamaica Rank?

Jamaica doesn't appear anywhere near this list. A United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization figure cited on Wikipedia put Jamaica's entire coffee crop at about 6,984 tonnes in 2013, roughly 0.1 percent of that year's global output, and the island didn't rank among the world's twenty largest producers. USDA's own circular doesn't break Jamaica's production out individually at all; it's small enough to sit inside the catch-all "Other" category alongside dozens of minor producers, which together contributed under 2 million 60-kg bags in the 2025/26 season.

That scarcity is part of what makes Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee, grown above 3,400 feet on a single Caribbean estate, worth seeking out. Readers curious to compare it against the countries above can start in the shop.

Is World Production Rising or Falling?

World coffee production has grown in most recent seasons, reaching an estimated 178.8 million 60-kg bags in 2025/26 and forecast by USDA to set a fresh record of roughly 189.7 million bags in 2026/27, driven mainly by a rebounding Brazilian arabica crop. Brazil's harvest swings the hardest of any origin: its arabica trees naturally alternate between high- and low-yielding years, and weather in a single Brazilian state is enough to move the global number up or down by millions of bags.

Where coffee is grown is also becoming a legal question in Europe. Under the EU Deforestation Regulation, most coffee placed on the EU market from December 30, 2026 must come with a due diligence statement and the geolocation of every plot where it was grown, and the Commission's country benchmarking classes Brazil and Indonesia as standard risk. See EU Deforestation Regulation and coffee.

Consumption is climbing alongside it. USDA projects world coffee consumption will reach a record 179.7 million bags in 2026/27, with the European Union and the United States accounting for the largest import volumes of any market — a reminder that most of the coffee grown by the countries in this list is bound for export, not for cups at home.