Norway vs Sweden: Greenhouse gas emissions

Norway

56.19 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Sweden

56.95 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Norway rank

91st

Sweden rank

89th

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

Norway
Sweden

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 56.95 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 56.19 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Norway, a difference of 765,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Sweden ahead.

Norway ranks 91st and Sweden ranks 89th of 199 countries.

Individual pages

Greenhouse gas emissions in Norway
Greenhouse gas emissions in Sweden
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Greenhouse gas emissions
Unit: tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source: Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.