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

Greece

1.37 million tonnes

in 2024

Sweden

1.39 million tonnes

in 2024

Greece rank

34th

Sweden rank

32nd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Sweden currently reports 1.39 million tonnes against 1.37 million tonnes in Greece, a difference of 15,440 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 70 times across 138 shared years of data; in 1868 it was Sweden ahead.

Greece ranks 34th and Sweden ranks 32nd of 215 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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