Romania vs Sweden: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita

Romania

3.61 tonnes per person

in 2024

Sweden

3.59 tonnes per person

in 2024

Romania rank

98th

Sweden rank

100th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Romania
Sweden

How they compare

Romania currently reports 3.61 tonnes per person against 3.59 tonnes per person in Sweden, a difference of 0.0135 tonnes per person.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 167 shared years of data; in 1858 it was Sweden ahead.

Romania ranks 98th and Sweden ranks 100th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita
Unit: tonnes per person
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 213 places, 22,945 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels and industrial processes. This includes emissions from transport, electricity generation, and heating, but not land-use change.