The graph below shows average carbon dioxide emissions per person in United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007

The graph gives information about how many people in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and Portugal produced carbon dioxide

emissions

between 1967 and 2007.

Overall

, since the beginning, Italy and Portugal’s

emissions

were increasing slightly

while

Sweden and the United Kingdom fell dramatically. In 1967, Sweden had started from 8

tons

and increased in 1977 to roughly 10

tons

of CO2

emissions

.

Then

, the

emissions

suddenly fell in 1987 to about 7

tons

and went down slowly to approximately 7

tons

in 2007.

Although

, from the first year, the United Kingdom citizen created more CO2, about 12

tons

sharply dropped all over the period.

On the other hand

, people in Portugal and Italy display that the emission growth began from the lower number

around

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1 ton and 4

tons

in 1967 and significantly increased over the year. After that, Italy reached a peak of above 8

tons

in 2007 and at the same time, Portugal followed in

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second place with around 5

tons

of

emissions

.