During the project ‘The CO2-cycle in cement and concrete’ an analytical model to quantify the CO2-uptake in a country a specified year was developed. That was accomplished by deriving a new model for the carbonation process and as input to that, measurements of carbonation in concrete indoors and studies of carbonation in crushed concrete were made. Through knowledge of the cement production each year, the distribution of the cement into different products and estimations of what concrete quality each product has, the total uptake for Sweden was calculated. For the year 2011 was the CO2-uptake calculated to 300 000 tons.