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

Colombia
2.67 million tonnes
in 2024
Sweden
1.39 million tonnes
in 2024
Colombia rank
29th
Sweden rank
32nd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Colombia
  • Sweden
-10.0M010.0M184019322024

How they compare

Colombia currently reports 2.67 million tonnes against 1.39 million tonnes in Sweden, a difference of 1.28 million tonnes.

That makes Colombia's figure about 1.9 times Sweden's.

The two have swapped places 91 times across 168 shared years of data; in 1857 it was Sweden ahead.

Colombia ranks 29th and Sweden ranks 32nd of 215 countries.

Across the 18 decades both report, Colombia averaged higher in 7 and Sweden in 11.

Head to head by decade

Decade Colombia Sweden Difference Ahead
1850s -1,482 tonnes 92,821 tonnes 94,303 tonnes Sweden
1860s 1,544 tonnes 33,342 tonnes 31,798 tonnes Sweden
1870s 4,775 tonnes 112,485 tonnes 107,709 tonnes Sweden
1880s 4,805 tonnes 274,434 tonnes 269,628 tonnes Sweden
1890s -4,220 tonnes 417,696 tonnes 421,916 tonnes Sweden
1900s -5,249 tonnes 353,553 tonnes 358,802 tonnes Sweden
1910s 10,132 tonnes -487,268 tonnes 497,400 tonnes Colombia
1920s 118,237 tonnes 1.16 million tonnes 1.04 million tonnes Sweden
1930s 350,405 tonnes 993,011 tonnes 642,606 tonnes Sweden
1940s 105,713 tonnes -246,794 tonnes 352,507 tonnes Colombia
1950s 1.02 million tonnes 1.56 million tonnes 534,003 tonnes Sweden
1960s 1.19 million tonnes 4.40 million tonnes 3.21 million tonnes Sweden
1970s 1.63 million tonnes -151,615 tonnes 1.78 million tonnes Colombia
1980s 882,760 tonnes -2.93 million tonnes 3.82 million tonnes Colombia
1990s 218,580 tonnes 41,576 tonnes 177,004 tonnes Colombia
2000s 1.65 million tonnes -879,331 tonnes 2.53 million tonnes Colombia
2010s 2.72 million tonnes -637,082 tonnes 3.36 million tonnes Colombia
2020s -1.26 million tonnes -535,166 tonnes 725,338 tonnes Sweden

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher year-on-year change in co₂ emissions, Colombia or Sweden?
Colombia, at 2.67 million tonnes against 1.39 million tonnes in Sweden as of 2024.
What is the difference in year-on-year change in co₂ emissions between Colombia and Sweden?
1.28 million tonnes, with Colombia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Colombia and Sweden?
168 years are reported by both, from 1857 to 2024.
How do Colombia and Sweden rank globally for year-on-year change in co₂ emissions?
Colombia ranks 29th and Sweden ranks 32nd of 215 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Colombia vs Sweden: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions. Statizoid, drawing on Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/absolute-change-co2/colombia/sweden/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/absolute-change-co2/colombia/sweden/">Colombia vs Sweden: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions</a> — Statizoid

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
Last refreshed

Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.