The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries

The tables above illustrate the number of

sales

of Fairtrade-categorized coffee and banana in five countries in Europe in the years 1999 and 2004. The numbers are described in millions of

euros

.

Overall

, all countries in 2004 had a much greater amount of coffee and banana

sales

compared to

sales

in 1999, except for Denmark and Sweden which recorded drops in banana

sales

. In terms of coffee

sales

, The British spent 1.5

million

euros

in 1999,

however

,

this

number jumped to 20

million

in 2004 making The UK by far the highest among the five nations. Meanwhile, The Swiss spent the greatest amount in 1999 which doubled from 3 to 6

million

across the five years. Figures for Denmark, Belgium and Sweden were low as opposed to The UK and Switzerland. Denmark and Sweden showed a slight increase in 2004, moving from 1.8 to 2 and .8 to 1

million

respectively.

Finally

, Belgium had a little increase from 1 to 1.7

million

. Regarding buying Fairtrade bananas, Switzerland occupied

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first place in both 1999 and 2004, rising from 15 to 47

million

euros

,

while

UK and Belgium only went up by a little portion, growing from 1 to 5.5 and .6 to 4

million

euros

in the same order.

On the other hand

, Dutch and

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Swedish showed

a different pattern, where the figures decreased during the five-year period.