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

The tables illustrate the amount of money spent on Fair – labelled coffee and bananas in two years 1999 and 2004 in the UK, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden.
Overall, it is clear that the sales of Fair – labelled coffee rose in all five European countries. However, there are two nations witnessed a downward trend in the sales of Fair – labelled bananas.

In 1999, Switzerland had the largest value of Fair – labelled coffee with 3 millions of euros. By 2004, this figure for the UK had increased to 20 millions of euros, which was over three times higher than that in Switzerland. Besides, the year 2004 saw slight growth to precise 2 millions of euros or below in the money spent on Fair – labelled coffee in three other countries.

The highest sales of Fair – labelled bananas still was Switzerland with 15 millions of euros in 1999 and rising to 47 millions of euros in 2004. The similar features could be seen in UUK and Belgium with the number of the former going up to 5.5 millions of euros and the figure for the latter increasing to 4 millions of euros. By contrast, the year 2004 saw a decline in the value of Fair – labelled bananas in Sweden (from 1.8 to 1 millions of euros) and Denmark (from 2 to 0.9 millions of euros).