Country Sheet : Denmark

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Last Update on 9th July 2025

DENMARK

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Geography

Area : 43,094 km²

Borders : 68 km (with Germany)

Coastline : 7,314 km

Capital : Copenhagen

Official language : Danish

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Population

Population : 5,961,249 inhabitants (2024)

Crude natural change rate : -0.2‰ (2023)

Population repartition: 16.2% under 15 years old, 20.8% over 65 years old (est. 2024)

Foreign residents: EU nationals 3.5%, non-EU nationals 5.4% (2019)

Crude net migration rate: 5‰ (2023)

First time asylum applicants: 2,180 (2024)

Life expectancy: men 79.9 years, women 83.9 years (2023)

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 74.7%, Muslim 5.5%, other/none/unspecified 19.8% (2019 est.)

Ethnic groups: Danish 84.2%, Turkish 1.1%, others 14.7% (of which Poles, Syrians, Romanians, Germans, Iraqis) (2023 est.)

Source : Eurostat, The CIA World Factbook

Economy

Currency: Danish Crown (DKK) (exchange rate in July 2025: 1 € = 7.46 DKK)

GDP: € 392,400.7 million (2024)

GDP per capita (PPS): € 58,160 (2024)

GDP growth : 2.6% (2024)

Inflation: 1.6% (May 2025)

Public debt: 31.1% of GDP (December 2024)

Unemployment: 2.5% (May 2025)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 35.4% of GDP (2023)

Budget balance: 4.5% of GDP (2024)

Source : Eurostat, OECD, European Commission, Trading Economics

Political system

Constitutional monarchy, unicameral democratic parliament.

Head of State: King Frederik X since 14th January 2024

Prime Minister: Mette Frederiksen (Social Democratic Party), Prime Minister since 26th June 2019, called for early elections on 1st November 2022, which marked the victory of the left-wing coalition guided by herself. She formed a government of national unity with the Moderate party and the Venstre (liberal right).

The Folketing (“The People’s Assembly”) comprises 179 representatives, elected by direct universal suffrage for four years. The Faroe Islands and Greenland are each represented by two representatives.