Kingdom of Denmark

National name: Kongeriget Danmark

Sovereign: Queen Margrethe II (1972)

Prime Minister: Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2001)

Land area: 16,359 sq mi (42,370 sq km); total area: 16,639 sq mi (43,094 sq km)1

Population (2006 est.): 5,450,661 (growth rate: 0.3%); birth rate: 11.1/1000; infant mortality rate: 4.5/1000; life expectancy: 77.8; density per sq mi: 333

Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Copenhagen, 1,094,400

Other large cities: Århus, 220,700; Odense, 144,600; Ålborg, 120,600

Monetary unit: Krone

Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (Inuit dialect), German; English is the predominant second language

Ethnicity/race: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%

Literacy rate: 100%

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2005 est.): $181.6 billion; per capita $33,400. Real growth rate: 2.8%. Inflation: 1.9%. Unemployment: 5.5%. Arable land: 54%. Agriculture: barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish. Labor force: 2.9 million; agriculture 3%, industry 21%, services 76% (2004 est.). Industries: iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, food processing, machinery and transportation equipment, textiles and clothing, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding and refurbishment, windmills, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment. Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, stone, gravel and sand. Exports: $84.95 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills. Imports: $74.69 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods. Major trading partners: Germany, Sweden, UK, U.S., Netherlands, Norway, France, Italy, China (2004).

Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 3,610,100 (2003); mobile cellular: 4,785,300 (2003). Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998). Television broadcast stations: 26 (plus 51 repeaters) (1998). Internet hosts: 1,219,925 (2004). Internet users: 2.756 million (2002).

Transportation: Railways: total: 2,628 km (2004). Highways: total: 71,847 km; paved: 71,847 km (including 918 km of expressways); unpaved: 0 km (2002). Waterways: 417 km (2001). Ports and harbors: Aalborg, Aarhus, Asnaesvaerkets, Copenhagen, Elsinore, Ensted, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Frederikshavn, Graasten, Kalundborg, Odense, Roenne. Airports: 97 (2004 est.).

International disputes: Iceland disputes the Faroe Islands' fisheries median line; Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; Faroese continue to study proposals for full independence; uncontested sovereignty dispute with Canada over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland.


 

Go to Country details page