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  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s economy decreased in the third quarter of 2025

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 12.4 million tonnes in the third quarter of 2025, according to preliminary figures from Statistics Sweden. This represents a 2.0 per cent decrease compared with the same quarter in 2024. Over the same period, GDP at constant prices increased by 2.6 per cent, resulting in a 4.5 per cent reduction in emission intensity. From a longer-term perspective, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 5.1 percent compared to the third quarter of 2023.

  • Slight increase in Domestic Extraction of Natural Resources in 2024

    Domestic material extraction has begun to pick up again after declining over the past two years. In 2024, a total of 244 million tonnes of natural resources were extracted in Sweden, representing an increase of 1 percent since 2023. Domestic material consumption amounted to 22.8 tonnes per person in 2024 which is an increase of about 3 percent from previous year.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s economy decreased in the second quarter of 2025

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 12.6 million tonnes in the second quarter of 2025, according to preliminary statistics from Statistics Sweden. This represents a 2.1 percent decrease compared to the same quarter in 2024. During the same period, GDP at constant prices increased by 0.9%, resulting in a 3.0% reduction in emissions intensity. From a longer-term perspective, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 3.7 percent compared to the second quarter of 2023.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish consumption decreased in 2023

    Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish consumption (which includes private consumption, public consumption, and gross investments) decreased by 9 percent in 2023 compared with 2022. Emissions embedded in products Sweden imports decreased by 13 percent at the same time that consumption-based emissions arising from Swedish production decreased by 3 percent.

  • Growth in the environmental sector slowed down in 2023

    The environmental goods and services sector accounted for 3.8 percent of Sweden’s total GDP in 2023, a small decrease from 2022. Both total production and the number of people employed in the environmental sector declined in 2023. The sector employed 160 000 people total, 21 percent of whom are women.