Coffee production in Vietnam doubled in the last 10 years making the country the world’s second-largest producer after Brazil. With over 27 million 60-kg bags produced annually, Vietnam accounts for 20 per cent of world coffee output, up from 5 per cent just twenty years ago.

Vietnam specialises in Robusta coffee, of which the country is the world’s leading producer. Brazilian output of Robusta – second largest – is only about half that of Vietnam. Indonesia was the leading Robusta producer in the 1990s, but it is now a minor player compared with Vietnam.

In the first six months of MY 2014/15, Vietnam exported coffee beans to 82 countries worldwide.  The top fifteen markets accounted for 83 percent of total green coffee bean exports, a slight increase from 82 percent of total green bean exports of the same period of the previous year.  Germany remained the largest importer; with the United States, again, ranked as the second largest importer of Vietnamese green coffee beans