How much coffee is that?
A two-cup-a-day habit is 730 cups a year, about 7 kg of roasted beans and a lot more money than it feels like.
Almost exactly a two a day
730 cups is more than 3 of the 7 references on this page.
Reference figures are measurements and are rounded; the unit conversion behind them is exact.
| Reference | Size | Yours ÷ theirs | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| one a week | 52 cups | 14× | |
| UK average | 350 cups | 2.09× | |
| one a day | 365 cups | 2× | |
| two a day | 730 cups | 1× | |
| US average | 900 cups | 0.811× | |
| four a day | 1,460 cups | 0.5× | |
| Finnish average | 1,600 cups | 0.456× | The highest in the world |
Worth knowing
- Finland drinks about 12 kg of coffee per person a year, roughly four cups a day — the highest of any country.
- Two cups a day for forty years is 29 200 cups and about 280 kg of roasted beans.
Frequently asked
How much coffee does a cup use?
About 10 g of roasted beans for a mug of filter coffee, or 18 g for a double espresso. A kilogram of beans makes roughly 100 mugs.
Which country drinks the most coffee?
Finland, followed by Norway, Iceland and Denmark. The Nordic countries occupy the top of the table by a clear margin.