Dänemark - Daten & Fakten

total: 43,094 sq km

land: 42,434 sq km

water: 660 sq km

note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn) but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland

agricultural land: 63.4% (2018 est.)

arable land: 58.9% (2018 est.)

permanent crops: 0.1% (2018 est.)

permanent pasture: 4.4% (2018 est.)

forest: 12.9% (2018 est.)

other: 23.7% (2018 est.)

Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes several major islands (Sjaelland, Fyn, and Bornholm)

0-14 years: 16.24% (male 495,887/female 469,976)

15-64 years: 63.13% (male 1,900,182/female 1,854,222)

65 years and over: 20.63% (2023 est.) (male 566,363/female 660,354)

11.3 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)

9.6 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)

Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority); note - English is the predominant second language

major-language sample(s):
Verdens Faktabog, den uundværlig kilde til grundlæggende oplysninger. (Danish)

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total population: 81.9 years (2023 est.)

male: 80 years

female: 83.9 years

1.381 million COPENHAGEN (capital) (2023)

total: 42.2 years (2023 est.)

male: 41 years

female: 43.3 years

29.8 years (2020 est.)

2.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est.)

with excellent access to the North Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat, and the Baltic Sea, population centers tend to be along coastal areas, particularly in Copenhagen and the eastern side of the country's mainland

0.44% (2023 est.)

1.77 children born/woman (2023 est.)

urban population: 88.5% of total population (2023)

rate of urbanization: 0.54% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

6.4% of GDP (2020 est.)

total: 19 years

male: 18 years

female: 19 years (2020)

1.1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

5.25% (2021 est.)

3.051 million (2021 est.)

12.5% (2018 est.)

4.8% (2021 est.)

5.64% (2020 est.)

5.02% (2019 est.)

35.3% of GDP (2017 est.)

37.9% of GDP (2016 est.)

note: data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intragovernmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are not sold at public auctions

1.85% (2021 est.)

0.42% (2020 est.)

0.76% (2019 est.)

$234.262 billion (2021 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$195.729 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$205.019 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

Germany 14%, United States 10%, Sweden 10%, China 6%, Norway 5% (2021)

$208.121 billion (2021 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$172.868 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$179.356 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

Germany 21%, Sweden 12%, China 9%, Netherlands 8%, Poland 4% (2021)

80 (2021)

total: 2,590,282 (2020 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 45 (2020 est.)

total: 5.841 million (2021 est.)

percent of population: 99% (2021 est.)

total: 2,682 km (2020) 876 km electrified

total: 74,558 km (2017)

paved: 74,558 km (2017) (includes 1,205 km of expressways)

total subscriptions: 706,604 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 12 (2021 est.)

total subscriptions: 7,287,875 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 124 (2021 est.)

400 km (2010)