Australia vs Sweden: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Australia
2.42 million tonnes
in 2024
Sweden
1.39 million tonnes
in 2024
Australia rank
30th
Sweden rank
32nd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Australia
  • Sweden
-20.0M-10.0M010.0M20.0M175118872024

How they compare

Australia currently reports 2.42 million tonnes against 1.39 million tonnes in Sweden, a difference of 1.03 million tonnes.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.7 times Sweden's.

The two have swapped places 76 times across 185 shared years of data; in 1840 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 30th and Sweden ranks 32nd of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions
Unit
tonnes
Source
Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 23,088 data points, 1751–2024
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Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.