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

Sri Lanka

1.66 million tonnes

in 2024

Sweden

1.39 million tonnes

in 2024

Sri Lanka rank

31st

Sweden rank

32nd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Sri Lanka currently reports 1.66 million tonnes against 1.39 million tonnes in Sweden, a difference of 271,460 tonnes.

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

The two have swapped places 35 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Sweden ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 31st 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.