Africa’s coffee exports fell 6.7% in the 2025/26 coffee year

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Wednesday 11th November 2026

Sorted coffee beans laid out to dry on a Tanzanian coffee farm — Sorted coffee beans drying on a Tanzanian farm on 5 August 2024. File photo by Harald Ulver / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized.

By inAfrika Newsroom

African coffee exports fell 6.7% to 17.9 million 60-kilogram bags in the coffee year ended September 2026, according to the International Coffee Organization’s October market report. The region had shipped 19.19 million bags in the previous coffee year.

September shipments rose 2.8% to 1.53 million bags, the region’s first year-on-year monthly increase in seven months. Ethiopia recorded the largest annual decline among the region’s major exporters, shipping about 620,000 fewer bags than a year earlier, a drop of 8.3%.

The African decline came as global exports rose about 1% to 142.39 million bags over the full coffee year, The Cooperator reported, citing the ICO. The ICO recorded a 12.8% increase in Asia and Oceania, to 51.21 million bags, with Viet Nam accounting for most of that region’s increase.

The ICO totals measure the volume of all forms of coffee exported. The Bank of Tanzania’s separate September-quarter figures measure Tanzania’s export earnings in dollars and cover three months.

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