The graph below shows average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per person in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below shows average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per person in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given line graph depicts how many metric
tonnes
of CO2
emissions
from
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per
person
in four
EUropean
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European
countries
from 1967 to 2007.
Overall
, during these forty years, CO2
emissions
in
Sweden
experienced a remarkable decline,
while
in Portugal, there was an uptrend in CO2
emissions
. To be specific,
initially
, the figure shows that each
person
produced approximately 9 metric
tonnes
of CO2 in
Sweden
, which ranked second highest among the four
countries
. Simultaneously, per
person
in the United Kingdom produced the highest CO2 at around 11 metric
tonnes
. After 1977,
although
both
countries
witnessed a downward decrease in CO2
emissions
, the reduction of CO2
emissions
from people in
Sweden
was much greater than that in the United Kingdom, decreasing from 10.5
tonnes
to 5
tonnes
by 2007.
On the other hand
, CO2
emissions
in Italy and Portugal started at 4.2 and 1.8 metric
tonnes
, respectively, in 1967. Both figures increased gradually, with the former surpassing
Sweden
's
emissions
in 1987, reaching 7 metric
tonnes
.
In contrast
to the other three
countries
, per
person
in Portugal produced three times more CO2,
finally
reaching 5.9 metric
tonnes
by 2007, making it the country with the fastest growth in CO2
emissions
.
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