Espresso generates €84.4 billion in gross added worth and straight helps roughly 1.5 million full-time-equivalent jobs throughout the European Union’s 27 member international locations, in response to a brand new report commissioned by the European Espresso Federation (ECF).

The €84.4 billion determine represents direct gross worth added (GVA), a measure of the worth an trade creates after subtracting the price of the products and providers wanted to function. Greater than 87% of these 1.5 million jobs are in out-of-home hospitality and foodservice, together with cafes, eating places, inns, workplaces and merchandising channels, the report states.

Ready by the London-based consultancy Europe Economics, the report was launched June 25 and represents one of the detailed quantitative assessments of the sector’s footprint thus far. It stated the objective was to “present a transparent and evidence-based account of the size and construction of the sector’s contribution to the European financial system.”

The report emphasizes how Europe’s espresso financial system is concentrated after import, the place worth is generated by means of buying and selling, warehousing, roasting, decaffeination, soluble espresso manufacturing, logistics, retail and hospitality.

The ECF says its membership consists of 16 nationwide espresso associations and 48 firm members, representing greater than 750 firms. The group says it accounts for roughly 90% of the espresso imported and processed within the EU.

Utilizing an input-output mannequin, the report estimates espresso’s direct, oblique and induced financial results throughout the EU27, in addition to the broader EU+ area, outlined because the EU27 plus the UK, Norway and Switzerland.

Hospitality and foodservice dominate the report’s direct financial footprint. The report estimates that out-of-home espresso accounts for €76.5 billion in direct GVA within the EU27, far exceeding the estimated GVA from roasting and manufacturing or at-home distribution and retail.

The report additionally emphasizes Europe’s significance for coffee-producing international locations. It estimates that the EU27 consumed roughly 41.9 million 60-kilogram luggage in 2025/26, or roughly 24% of world espresso consumption. In 2025, the EU imported 2.9 million tonnes of espresso from non-EU international locations, price €18.7 billion, with greater than 97% of these imports arriving as inexperienced espresso.

The report notes that inexperienced espresso buying and selling coordinated by means of hubs reminiscent of Switzerland is probably going understated as a result of publicly out there statistics could not totally seize transactions involving espresso that by no means bodily enters Europe.

Notably, the ECF financial influence report arrived shortly after the 2026 version of the Espresso Barometer. Whereas each paperwork describe the financial scale and influence of espresso in Europe, the Barometer questions the methods that focus worth downstream whereas lots of the world’s roughly 12.5 million coffee-farming households battle to earn a viable earnings.

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