🇸🇪 Sweden

How green is the average person in Sweden?

Below the world average

Sweden emits 4 tCO2 per person per year — 1.2× lower than the world average and 1.7× the Paris-aligned 2030 target. Ranked 36 of 51 countries by per-capita emissions.

Per-capita CO2
4 tCO2
per person, per year
Total emissions
42 Mt
10.6M people
Electricity grid
45 g/kWh
CO2 per kWh of electricity

Calculate your own footprint in Sweden

Diet, driving, flying, heating. We turn your lifestyle into tonnes of CO2 per year and compare it to Sweden's average.

Step 1 of 4Diet

Tell us about your year

Four short steps. Skip what you do not know. Defaults reflect a typical lifestyle in your country.

What do you eat in a typical week?

Diet is around a fifth of a typical footprint in rich countries. Animal protein dominates the impact.

Anchor: world average 4.7 tCO2/yr · Paris-aligned 2030: 2.3 tCO2/yr.

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