Tanzania’s coffee export earnings rise 35% in September quarter

Monday 9th November 2026

By inAfrika Newsroom

Tanzania earned $80.3 million from coffee exports in the three months to September 2026, about 35% more than the $59.3 million recorded in the same quarter a year earlier. The figures come from the Bank of Tanzania’s September quarterly statistical bulletin.

Coffee export earnings also rose from $34.5 million in the quarter to June. The comparable September 2024 figure was $70.5 million. The bank reports the amounts in US dollars and records each of those periods separately.

Total traditional exports, a category that includes coffee, rose to $346.4 million from $336.5 million a year earlier. Coffee accounted for about 23% of the category’s value in the latest quarter, against about 18% in the same period of 2025.

The bulletin’s commodity export table measures earnings. It does not provide a breakdown of coffee prices and shipment volumes for those quarters.

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