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Malta vs Sweden: Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita

Malta
47.59 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Sweden
81.28 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Malta rank
202nd
Sweden rank
199th

Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita over time

  • Malta
  • Sweden
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How they compare

Sweden currently reports 81.28 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour against 47.59 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour in Malta, a difference of 33.69 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour.

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

The two have swapped places 3 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Malta ahead.

Malta ranks 202nd and Sweden ranks 199th of 204 regions.

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About this data

Indicator
Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita
Unit
grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour
Source
Global Carbon Budget (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
204 places, 9,804 data points, 1965–2024
Last refreshed

Fossil carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions per unit of total energy supply, measured in grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour.