Fair trade facts and figures from The Fair Trade Federation:

How much

• $2.6 billion - amount of total fair trade sales in 2006, according to the International Fair Trade Association.
• $160+ million - amount of total FTF member sales in 2006, according to the Fair Trade Federation.
• 93 percent - growth in the global fair trade cocoa sector in 2006, according to the Fair Trade Labelling Organization. In 2006, coffee has also grown by 53 percent, tea by 41 percent and bananas by 31 percent.

Who

• 2.7 billion - estimated number of people in the world existing on less than $2/day, according to the World Bank.
• 800,000+ - households (approximately 5 million people) who earned a living from fair trade production, according to the European Fair Trade Association's January 1998 Memento pour l'an 2000.
• 30 percent - women in non-agricultural conventional production in developing countries in 2004, according to the United Nations.
• 70 percent - women engaged in non-agricultural fair trade production in 2004, according to the Fair Trade Federation.
• 284,000 - number of children in the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon working in hazardous tasks on conventional cocoa farms, according to a 2002 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture study directly involving 4,500+ producers.
• 15,000 - number of children aged 9 to 12 in the Ivory Coast alone who have been sold into forced labor on conventional cotton, coffee, and cocoa plantations, according to a 2000 U.S. State Department report.

Comparing conventional and fair trade in coffee

• 2 cents - amount farmers on conventional farms receive from the average $3 latte, according to Transfair USA.
• 10 cents - amount of social premium paid on top of the per kilo price to fair trade certified coffee farmers, according to Fairtrade Labeling Organization standards.
• 20 cents - amount of social premium paid on top of the per kilo price to fair trade certified coffee farmers for organic coffee, according to Fairtrade Labelling Organization standards.

Other factors

• $70 billion - amount African countries could generate if their share of world exports increased by 1 percent - approximately five times what the continent receives in aid - according to Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair Report.
• 30 cents of every $1 - amount of foreign investment that ends up back in donor countries through profit transfers, according to Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair Report.
• $13 billion - total amount required to provide basic education and nutrition in all developing countries, according to the 2005 UNICEF State of the World's Children Report.
• $25 billion - amount spent annually on U.S. farm subsidies, according to a 2007 Heritage Foundation report.
• $40-70 billion - amount required to meet all eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, according to the United Nations.