Cocoa price increase by 150 percent: Will customers have to dig deeper into their pockets for chocolate in 2024?. So far, annual consumption of chocolate in Germany has been stable; in 2023, according to the BDSI, it was 9.3 kilos.
And this despite the fact that the price has become steadily more expensive in recent years. For companies like Mondelez and Lindt, the price of chocolate has tripled, as the consumer advice has been: “A good 20 years ago the cost of chocolate was 99 pfennigs”