Denmark vs Sweden: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

Denmark

4.20 billion tonnes

in 2024

Sweden

5.13 billion tonnes

in 2024

Denmark rank

47th

Sweden rank

44th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

Sweden currently reports 5.13 billion tonnes against 4.20 billion tonnes in Denmark, a difference of 934.89 million tonnes.

That makes Sweden's figure about 1.2 times Denmark's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 182 shared years of data; in 1843 it was Sweden ahead.

Denmark ranks 47th and Sweden ranks 44th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative 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, 23,408 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.