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According to Statistics Denmark, in 2008 7% of all employed persons in Denmark were immigrants, and an additional one percent were descendants of immigrants. In 2021, immigrants made out 12% of total employment, and their descendants a further 2.5%, so that the percentage of people of Danish origin had dwindled to 85.5% of total employment.
Since 1980, the number of people of Danish descent, defined as having at least one parent who was born in Denmark and has Danish citizenship, has remained constant at around 5 million in Denmark, and nearly all the population growth from 5.1 up to the 2018 total of 5.8 million was due to immigration.
An excess of people entering a country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population). An excess of people leaving a country is referred to as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change.
One study of Denmark found that providing immigrants with voting rights reduced their crime rate. [90] A report by Statistics Denmark released in December 2015 found that 83% of crimes are committed by individuals of Danish origin (88% of the total population), 14% by individuals of non-Western descent and 3% by those of non-Danish Western ...
Number of migrants and migrant workers per country (2015, World bank) Share of population born in another country, (2020, Our World in Data) These are lists of countries by foreign-born population and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).
Denmark has introduced increasingly harsh immigration policies in the last decade and passed a law in 2021 that allows refugees arriving on Danish soil to be moved to asylum centres in a partner ...
Denmark has considerably large deposits of oil and natural gas in the North Sea and ranks as number 32 in the world among net exporters of crude oil [166] and was producing 259,980 barrels of crude oil a day in 2009. [167] Denmark is a long-time leader in wind power: In 2015 wind turbines provided 42.1% of the total electricity consumption. [168]
According to Statistics Denmark, as of 2014, Morocco-born immigrants aged 30–64 in Denmark have an employment rate of approximately 48.6%. [13] According to the Institute of Labor Economics, as of 2014, Morocco-born residents in Denmark have an employment population ratio of about 46%. They also have an unemployment rate of roughly 13%. [14]