Norway has some surprising stats

Probably per capita

Nah these people are 1/3 caffeine.
- Their cross country skiers might be 🤷
Yes, they are having an amazing time per capita.
Yeah I was going to say - interesting, but presumably per capita?
Even then it's not true. Sweden and Finland regularly trade first place when it comes to coffee consumption per capita.

So that the US sold be in first is just not true. And if I know for fact that's not true. I have serious doubts about the rest of his claims
Probably? Lol. Bro

I know the coffee bit is bullshit (https://coffeeabout.com/coffee-consumption-by-country/) so likely the other stuff is too

Person who made this mixes absolute and per capita measurements. Probably in more than one category
Well it might just be a mistake.

Norway is second on that per capita list and USA is first in tonnage. I could see how USA first, Norway second could be bungled out of that. Perhaps after a glass of wine or two. Or three maybe.

12KG of dried beans per capita is astounding. Those Scandinavians are giants among us.
- I drink about 11kg dried beans on average. Daily brew is 60g and I drink half, so 30g. 365*30 = 10950g, just under 11 kg. There are occasional days I'll have an extra cup out and about.
  
  Vast majority of it is locally roasted.
No Australia in that list at all??? Not sure how we sit, but boy do we hit coffee hard in this country
- I was curious so went digging a little.
  
  This page says 2.2M 60KG bags in 2023 which works out at just over 5KG per capita (2.2 x 60M / 26M). That would put Australia around Croatia level on that graph.
  
  So something smells. Not sure if it's the dry weight part as roasted coffee is lighter than the unroasted beans that come in those huge bags but those beans are dried. Maybe that graph is just plain wrong.
  
  Anyway.... It looks like you guys are fair coffee junkies alright.

Nope - Finland is #1 coffee consumer. By a lot.

It's not correct about tacos either. I wouldn't even call what they're eating in Europe "tacos".

The US has got to be eating the second largest amount of tacos in the world. Not only are there millions of Mexicans in the country, tacos are part of the national cuisine.
- Should I be informing some kind of official census each time I eat tacos at home?
- I wouldn’t even call what they’re eating in Europe “tacos”.
  
  the same applies to most americans as well
- I wouldn't even call what they're eating in Europe "tacos".
  
  Well we would. Stop gatekeeping!
- When people in Scandinavia says they're eating Tacos. What they mean is, we're making and eating burritos.
Yes. It might even be that Sweden is second in Europe at least, but I may remember the last statistic I saw on that wrong.
Indeed, multiple countries come before the US on this chart too if I remember correctly.
And Sweden in second place.

Per capita ofc.
And USA isn't even in the top 20. Stuff like this makes me wonder if anything in the post is even remotely correct.
Depends on if you count in total or per person, and what you're defining as coffee.
It doesn't say #1. For any of the stats.
- Yeah. It says 2nd. After the USA. Guess who is first?

Would be funny if it wasn't complete bs. Except for the amazing time part. They're fun folk.

Based on their mystery novels and TV shows, everyone there is depressed and living in a stark, bleak landscape.

I'm thinking they want to discourage tourism.
- They also whip each other with shrubbery in the sauna. (or so I've heard)
- I think Norway not too dissimilar to Saint Petesburg. So probably they want to discourage tourism indeed.

And this is why we should be critical to our sources, especially when it's "some guy on the internet".

It's simply not true.

I highly doubt that Norwegians consume the 2nd most tacos. If there was actual data on this subject then I think that we would probably find that the US consumes the most tacos, followed by Mexico.

Mexico's population is about 40% the size of the US population. There are also a lot of Mexicans living in the US, and there are Taco Bells everywhere.

After the first stat it's probably normalized to population.
- I would think that to be the case, but he final line stating the population of Norway implies that these aren't rates, but total numbers.
This is per capita for sure
- I was thinking, no way they have France or Italy beaten in absolute coffee consumption. We are quite addicted to coffee and there's 10x more of us

There's simply no way Norway has the US beat for total taco consumption; even per capita consumption would be impressive.

Seriously. Southern CA alone is 4-5x the population of all of Norway, and that region often has 3-4 taco shops per block when it’s allowed by zoning.

Edit: the USA has 75,000 Mexican restaurants. That means that there are only 73 people in Norway for every Mexican restaurant in the United States.

The average restaurant in the USA serves 100 people per day. That means that, on average, US Mexican restaurants serve more people daily than the entire population of Norway.
- Taco trucks just park wherever they want and deliver delicious tacos to the world. Zoning laws be damned
- Even serving 7.5 million people per day that leaves 330-some million people every day who don't eat tacos. Assuming every customer ate a taco with their meal, ~2,200 out of every 100,000 people eats at least one taco each day, so ~2.2%. This doesn't account for people eating multiple tacos, however.
Taco related products have their own aisle in almost every Nordic supermarket no matter how small and is often eaten once a week in every family. Not surprising considering any flatbread based food will inevitably be a hit in the Nordics.

The way we eat tacos would seem foreign in the U.S or Mexico. Way more fresh vegetables for example.

Another odd thing is that their oil fund owns about 1.5% of all globally listed stock shares. That's a lot by capita, since their population is less than 0.07% of the global population.

Per capita

That cannot be right. The usa isn't even in top ten of coffee consumption

Best Norway fact I have is that their wine (and spirits) is nationalised. Anything over 4.75%.

You can only buy it from the government in places called Vinmonopolet (English: The Wine Monopoly), and it is directly taxed.

And it's awesome. The staff have to actually study and pass a test so they can advise on wine selection. The selection is huge and far beyond what's visible in the stores - and there's a great app for ordering stuff. They even have massively subsidised wine courses and a free wine magazine that's surprisingly good.
It isn't terribly different in practice from state and local regulations in the US, except the rules in Norway are the same nationwide.

For example, where I live in Ohio, I can buy beer at the grocery store with some restrictions on Sundays. I can also buy harder liquor in the state store, which is located in a physically separated section of the grocery store and where you have to be 21 (legal drinking age) to shop. Alcohol is subject to special taxes here, as well.

In Norway I would buy beer at the grocery store then go across the street to Vinmonopolet and buy some wine. I could do that at age 18, though some harder liquor is/was restricted to 21.

So it's not all that different, except in the US the limits are a little different, it's more likely to be regulated at a local level, and typically run by some private for-profit entity.
- Certain parts of the US (typically further southeast) anything over like 5% is exclusively in ABC Stores, a completely separate building and company from grocery stores.
Same in Finland actually.
- And Sweden
- Another reason for Torvalds to become sad after leaving Finland.
Nice.

Also, can you buy something like 96% ethanol?
- It's probably poisoned like in many countries

Bull-fucking-shit that USA consumes more coffee per capita than Sweden, Finland and Norway. https://coffeeabout.com/coffee-consumption-by-country/

The site coffeeabout.com references worldatlas.com which is so full of advertising that it hangs Safari on a weak iPhone and thus I can’t dig any further for a reliable source of that info.
https://coffeeabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Coffee-consumption-chart.png

Fuck, gotta go get moar coffee

Somebody's conflating per capita and volume.

Also Norway is the country with the second most of Norway in their country. Just right after Hawaii.

And they are the second most planet in the galaxy. Just after the time lords.

Well, the US is the country with the most people of Norwegian descent, ahead of Norway. Of course it helps up the number when you can include people with less than 100% ancestry in a much larger country.

You forgot the most important one, Norway is the world's first country of electrical car ownership by percentage, yet they are among the world's highest oil and gas producers, and they like to call themselves the most eco-friendly country in the world.

Spent some time there this year. A lot of ant-renewable sentiment.

But then every kid gets access to a musical instrument and lessons.
- Please do go on
- A lot of ant-renewable sentiment.
  
  I'm just imagining they just leave sugary drinks and snacks laying out in the open.
- So they can become violinists on Titanic

Per capita it's Finland that drinks the most coffee apparently in total numbers it's USA, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia...

Ah to have natural resource riches and a liberal society!

100% of statistics that make the EU sound good are believed on the spot.

100% of people who say shit like this in reference to Norway don't know that Norway isn't a member of the EU.
Norway isn't in the EU dude.

And somehow they're still depressed as shit, or so I heard.

Well given how much sun they get and thus vitamin D, no wonder.
You’re probably thinking of Finland. Often rated as the happiest country in the world, yet also scoring high on depression rates, which gets pointed out often on the internet. See https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/depression-rates-by-country. Norway scores pretty low.
- Yeah, I often mix up those countries. My bad, sorry.
First time I've heard that about us
- I got it mixed up with Finland.

Ok, wait, USA consumes the most coffee, I can believe that. But do they actually consume the most caffeine?

No, they're all bullshit stats. Finland is #1 /capita with Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark also super high but not quite as high. If we're talking total, then Norway isn't even in top 20. Too few people. Top is something like USA, Brazil, then other big countries like Germany, France, etc.

Also France is 2nd biggest manga consumer. Googled that a few months ago when I noticed a bunch of manga stores on the street and went into one and it had lots of people.
- Exactly. The US isn't even close to the top. Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-consumption-by-country
I sure as shit do my part...hopefully my heart can keep up

For comics, idk but for manga specifically the second country is France.

Yeah, I think these stats are bs, some people are also debunking the taco bit.

According to Wikipedia, France is about 40% of the European market and I don't think Japanese read much western comics, so I don't think that's what we talk about.

In my perception this French anomaly comes from two factors :

There was a French TV segment in the 90s called "club Dorothé" that imported a lot of Japanese animation, initially because it was cheaper that producing or importing other TV shows. This got a whole generation addicted to mangas and now it's just part of culture.

There is an actual cultural proximity between France and Japan, the most obvious part being the obsession about food.
- actual cultural proximity between France and Japan
  
  Yes. It is also my perception. We are so far apart from each other, physically and culturally but somehow it fells like there is some link that connected us. For example, French and Japanese are among the hardest language to learn in the world, bc they both have a overly complicated writting system but somehow, there is an ease for a japanese speaker to learn spoken french vice versa.

Maybe I'm a Norwegian and I just never knew...?

Am I reading this wrong, or are apart from the Pepsi thing all per capita facts? How is this surprising you don't need a large population for that.

And yet, they closed the Noway ride 'Maelstrom' at Epcot. I'm still sad.

I mean, it's still there, they just replaced all the Norse gods with frozen characters. The track layout, and even the ride vehicles are exactly the same.
- Yes, but it's not the same atmosphere, story, or visuals. It went from a serious tone to very Disneyesque.