Russians drink almost 38 million cups of hot beverages out of home each year – most of it is tea.

The four largest out of home beverage consuming countries – Russia, Italy, Germany and France – account for a shade under 50% of the European total.

Italy heads the list of coffee drinkers while French consumers drink most chocolate when away from home:

Top 5 hot beverage consumption by country

	Coffee	Tea	Chocolate
1	Italy	Russia	France
2	Germany	UK	Denmark
3	France	Ukraine	Italy
4	UK	France	Russia
5	Spain	Hungary	Portugal
Top 5 share of European total	56%	77%	55%

Danes drink more hot beverages out of home than any others, followed by the Portuguese and Maltese.

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