5,894,687 (July 2021 est.)
noun: Dane(s)
adjective: Danish
Danish (includes Greenlandic (who are predominantly Inuit) and Faroese) 86.3%, Turkish 1.1%, other 12.6% (largest groups are Polish, Syrian, German, Iraqi, and Romanian) (2018 est.)
note: data represent population by ancestry
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority); note - English is the predominant second language
printed major-language sample:
Verdens Faktabog, den uundværlig kilde til grundlæggende oplysninger. (Danish)
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Evangelical Lutheran (official) 74.7%, Muslim 5.5%, other/none/unspecified (denominations of less than 1% each in descending order of size include Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Pentecostal, and nondenominational Christian) 19.8% (2019 est.)
0-14 years: 16.42% (male 494,806/female 469,005)
15-24 years: 12.33% (male 370,557/female 352,977)
25-54 years: 38.71% (male 1,149,991/female 1,122,016)
55-64 years: 12.63% (male 370,338/female 371,149)
65 years and over: 19.91% (male 538,096/female 630,475) (2020 est.)
total dependency ratio: 57.3
youth dependency ratio: 25.6
elderly dependency ratio: 31.7
potential support ratio: 3.2 (2020 est.)
total: 42 years
male: 40.9 years
female: 43.1 years (2020 est.)
0.44% (2021 est.)
11.17 births/1,000 population (2021 est.)
9.5 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
2.74 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 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
urban population: 88.2% of total population (2021)
rate of urbanization: 0.54% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
1.359 million COPENHAGEN (capital) (2021)
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.85 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2020 est.)
29.7 years (2019 est.)
4 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)
total: 3.09 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 3.54 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.)
total population: 81.45 years
male: 79.52 years
female: 83.51 years (2021 est.)
1.77 children born/woman (2021 est.)
improved: urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
unimproved: urban: 0% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0% of population (2017 est.)
10.1% (2018)
4.01 physicians/1,000 population (2016)
2.6 beds/1,000 population (2017)
improved: urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
unimproved: urban: 0% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0% of population (2017 est.)
0.1% (2020 est.)
6,700 (2020 est.)
note: estimate does not include children
note: estimate does not include children
19.7% (2016)
7.8% of GDP (2017)
total: 18 years
male: 19 years
female: 19 years (2018)
total: 10.1%
male: 10.4%
female: 9.7% (2019 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding Denmark on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Denmark 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Denmark 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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