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Denmark has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 41.9 years, [ 180 ] with 0.97 males per female. Despite a low birth rate, the population is growing at an average annual rate of 0.59% [ 139 ] because of net immigration and increasing longevity.
The Danish Realm, [ f ] officially the Kingdom of Denmark, [ h ] or simply Denmark, [ i ] is a sovereign state and refers to the area over which the monarch of Denmark is head of state. It consists of metropolitan Denmark —the kingdom's territory in continental Europe and sometimes called "Denmark proper" (Danish: egentlige Danmark)—and the ...
The foreign policy of Denmark is based on its identity as a sovereign state in Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic. As such its primary foreign policy focus is on its relations with other nations as a sovereign state compromising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Copenhagen remains the largest city in Denmark with a population of 1.2 million people and a metro population of 1.99 million. Copenhagen became Denmark's capital in 1443 and now currently sits with a population density of 6,800 per square kilometre (18,000/sq mi). [10] [11] About a quarter of Danes live in the capital Copenhagen. [12]
The Nordic economies are among the countries in the Western world with the best macroeconomic performance in the recent ten years. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have for example experienced constant and large excess exports in recent years. Iceland is the only country which has balance of payments deficits as of 2011. At the same time ...
Danes (Danish: danskere, pronounced [ˈtænskɐɐ]), or Danish people, are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. [27] This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural. Danes generally regard themselves as a nationality and reserve the word "ethnic" for the ...
The previous last year there was a negative natural increase in the population was in 1988. During 2022, 58,430 children were born, 5,043 fewer than in 2021. In 2022, 59,435 people died, there were 2,283, or 4.0% more than in 2021. The total population in the age group 80 and over grew by 12,844 people, or 4.4%., from 2022 to 2023.
United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index ranking 16th out of 187 countries/ regions (2022) [8] Gallup World Poll: The World's Happiest Countries — ranking 2nd out of 137 countries/ regions (2023) [9] World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report — ranked 2 out of 141 countries/ regions (2020) [10]