Nyasaland 1918 122,796 92,593 Mayotte (including Comoro Is.)1914 3,306 660 Madagascar 1918 707,676 981,047 Angola 1913 10,655,934 10,459,724 Belgian Congo 1919 347,588 186,432[h] Fr. Equatorial Africa 1916 48,060 47,046 Nigeria 1916 3,527 19,180 Ivory Coast 1918 66,358 49,162 Gold Coast 1917 660 220 French Guinea 1918 1,320 1,320 Spanish Guinea 1918 8,150 3,968[h] St. Thomas & Prince's Is. 1916 484,350 1,125,448 Liberia 1917 761,300 Cape Verde Islands 1916 1,442,910 1,100,095 [a] Crop year. [b] Fiscal year. [c] Including small proportion of unhusked coffee. [d] Four-year average. [e] Not including 6,322,167 pounds "triage" or waste coffee. [f] Including shipments to continental United States. [g] Two-year average. [h] Three-year average. [i] Java and Madura only It is estimated that the area in the coffee-growing section suitable for coffee raising covers 1,158,000 square miles, or more than one-third the area of continental United States. The state of Sao Paulo is the chief producing state, and supplies practically half the world's annual output. Most of this Sao Paulo coffee is exported through the port of Santos, which is consequently the leading coffee port of the world. Besides Santos, the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Victoria are of much importance in the coffee trade, although some twenty or thirty million pounds are exported each year through the port of Bahia, and smaller amounts through various other ports. The crop year of Brazil runs from July 1 to June 30, the heaviest receipts for shipment coming as a rule in the months of August, September, and October of each year. One-third of the season's crop is usually received at ports of shipment before the last of October, sometimes as early as the latter part of September; one-half comes in by the middle or last of November; and two-thirds is usually received, by the end of January. [Illustration: No. 1--COFFEE EXPORTS, 1850-1920 This diagram shows the exports of the principal coffee-producing countries, omitting Brazil] [Illustration: No. 21--1 COFFEE EXPORTS, 1916-1920 This diagram shows the exports of the leading coffee countries (except Brazil) in a period covering most of the World War]