Greece vs Sri Lanka: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Greece
1.37 million tonnes
in 2024
Sri Lanka
1.66 million tonnes
in 2024
Greece rank
34th
Sri Lanka rank
31st

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Greece
  • Sri Lanka
-10.0M-5.0M05.0M10.0M186819462024

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 1.66 million tonnes against 1.37 million tonnes in Greece, a difference of 286,900 tonnes.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.2 times Greece's.

The two have swapped places 29 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Greece ahead.

Greece ranks 34th and Sri Lanka ranks 31st 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.