Russia vs Sweden: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Russia

0.5886 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Sweden

0.5719 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Russia rank

37th

Sweden rank

40th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Russia
Sweden

How they compare

Russia currently reports 0.5886 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.5719 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Sweden, a difference of 0.0167 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

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

Russia ranks 37th and Sweden ranks 40th of 201 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions
Unit: tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source: Jones et al. (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: 201 places, 34,339 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.