Sri Lanka’s tea supply per person outweighs its coffee supply by about 225 times, the widest gap of any country in 2023. Turkey and China remain firmly tea dominant despite building two of the world’s fastest growing coffee markets. More than half of all countries with usable data lean toward coffee instead.
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Global coffee supply grew from 8,612 to 11,576 thousand tonnes between 2010 and 2023. The United States remained the largest market by volume throughout the period. Laos supplies more coffee per resident than almost any other country, at 22.59 kg (49.8 lbs) per person in 2023. China posted the fastest growth of any major market.
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Kiribati’s government spends 98% of the country’s GDP, the highest share on earth. A cluster of wealthy European countries very nearly match that number, for an entirely unrelated reason.
Read MoreGlobal tea and mate supply grew from 11,476 to 33,091 thousand tonnes between 2010 and 2023. China and India together account for about 64 percent of the 2023 total. Sri Lanka leads every country in per capita consumption at 51.69 kg (114.0 lbs) per person. Vietnam and Turkiye posted the sharpest per capita gains of the period.
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Geography gives us a starting point, but the actual idea of Eastern Europe comes from centuries of changing borders, politics, and shared traditions. We look at different maps, from the CIA to time zones, to show why this region is so hard to define.
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Canada looks like a country of snow and endless winter on the map, yet its six biggest cities land at the same latitude as London, Paris and even Florence.
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23 states don’t require a front license plate, and the list keeps growing. Utah joined most recently in January 2025, and a bill to make Virginia the next one died in the legislature earlier this year.
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The oldest gambling dice are over 5,000 years old. The global gambling market hit $650 billion in 2026. Whether a bet is legal where you are is a completely different question. Five world maps break down casino gambling, online casinos, sports betting and online betting for all 195 countries, plus a Gambling Friendliness score for each.
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Most of the world writes its official languages in alphabets that arrived from outside, whether Latin from Roman colonialism or Cyrillic from 9th-century Byzantine missionaries. Only about 44 of 195 countries use a script that grew from within their own tradition.
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About one million species are currently sliding toward extinction, and most of what remains is concentrated in a surprisingly small slice of the planet. This map traces 33 of the regions carrying that weight, from California’s redwood groves to the volcanic forests of Chile and the islands of Wallacea.
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