Cocoa price increase by 150 percent: Will customers have to dig deeper into their pockets for chocolate in 2024?. So far, annual per capita consumption of chocolate products 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, as the consumer advice center explained: “A good good 20 years ago the cost of chocolate was 99 pfennigs, currently 1,49 euros”