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Background: Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the general political and economic integration of Europe. It joined NATO in 1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the country has opted out of certain elements of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), European defense cooperation, and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.
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Common Name: Denmark
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Local Official Name: Danmark
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Abbreviated Name: Kingdom of Denmark
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Official Name: Kongeriget Danmark
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Official Script Name: Denmark
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Local Common Name: Denmark
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Former Name: Denmark
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Territory of: NA
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Head of State: Queen MARGRETHE II
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Government Type: constitutional monarchy
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Independence: first organized as a unified state in 10th century; in 1849 became a constitutional monarchy
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Constitution: 1849 was the original constitution; there was a major overhaul 1953 June 5, allowing for a unicameral legislature and a female chief of state
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National Holiday: none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June is generally viewed as the National Day
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International Organization Participation: AfDB, Arctic Council, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, G- 9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, MIGA, MINURSO, MONUC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMEE, UNMIL, UNMOGIP, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WEU (observer), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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Administrative Divisions: metropolitan Denmark - 14 counties (amter, singular - amt) and 2 boroughs* (amtskommuner, singular - amtskommune); Arhus, Bornholm, Frederiksberg*, Frederiksborg, Fyn, Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn (Copenhagen)*, Nordjylland, Ribe, Ringkobing, Roskilde, Sonderjylland, Storstrom, Vejle, Vestsjalland, Viborg
note: as a result of an extensive 2005 local government reform, with 2006 being a transition year, 275 municipalities will be merged to 99 by 1 January 2007, and the 14 counties will be reorganized into five regions
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Dependent Areas: NA
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Legal System: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
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Suffrage: 18 years
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Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches: Executive Branch:
chief of state: Queen MARGRETHE II (since 14 January 1972); Heir Apparent Crown Prince FREDERIK, elder son of the monarch (born 26 May 1968)
head of government: Prime Minister Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN (since 27 November 2001)
cabinet: Council of State appointed by the monarch
elections: none; the monarch is hereditary; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the monarch
Legislative Branch:
unicameral People's Assembly or Folketinget (179 seats, including 2 from Greenland and 2 from the Faroe Islands; members are elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation to serve four-year terms)
elections: last held 8 February 2005 (next to be held February 2009)
election results: percent of vote by party - Liberal Party 29%, Social Democrats 25.9%, Danish People's Party 13.2%, Conservative Party 10.3%, Social Liberal Party 9.2%, Socialist People's Party 6%, Unity List 3.4%; seats by party - Liberal Party 52, Social Democrats 47, Danish People's Party 24, Conservative Party 18, Social Liberal Party 17, Socialist People's Party 11, Unity List 6; note - does not include the 2 seats from Greenland and the 2 seats from the Faroe Islands
Judicial Branch:
Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the monarch for life)
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Party Leaders: Christian Democrats (was Christian People's Party) [Bodil KORNBEK]; Conservative Party (sometimes known as Conservative People's Party) [Bendt BENDTSEN]; Danish People's Party [Pia KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party [Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN]; Red-Green Unity List (bloc includes Left Socialist Party, Communist Party of Denmark, Socialist Workers' Party) [collective leadership]; Social Democratic Party [Helle THORNING-SCHMIDT]; Social Liberal Party (sometimes called the Radical Left) [Marianne JELVED, leader; Soren BALD, chairman]; Socialist People's Party [Villy SOEVNDAL]
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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
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Illicit Drugs: NA
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Location of Denmark: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn)
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Continent: Europe
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Land Area Total: 43,094 sq km
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Region: Scandanavian |
Land Area Land: 42,394 sq km
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Capitol City: Copenhagen
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Land Area Water: 700 sq km
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Latitude: 056 00 N
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Border Boundary Land: 68 km
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Longitude: 010 00 E
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Border Boundary Coastline: 7,314 km
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Arable Land: 52.59 %
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Pastures: 0.00 %
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Crops: 0.19 %
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Woodlands and Forests: 0.00
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Highest Elevation: 173 m
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Location: Yding Skovhoej
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Lowest Elevation: -7 m
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Location: Lammefjord
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Largest City in Denmark: Copenhagen
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Copenhagen Largest City Population: 501,158
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Threatened Species: 27
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Environmental Issues: air pollution, principally from vehicle and power plant emissions; nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the North Sea; drinking and surface water becoming polluted from animal wastes and pesticides
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Environmental Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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Irrigated Land: 4,490
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Bordering Countries: Germany 68 km
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Natural Resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, stone, gravel and sand
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Geographical Terrain: low and flat to gently rolling plains
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Comparative Area of Denmark: slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts
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Denmark's Geography: controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen
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General Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers
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Natural Hazards: flooding is a threat in some areas of the country (e.g., parts of Jutland, along the southern coast of the island of Lolland) that are protected from the sea by a system of dikes
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Economic Overview: This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro. Nonetheless, the Danish krone remains pegged to the euro. Economic growth gained momentum in 2004 and the upturn accelerated through 2005. Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits, a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish people enjoy living standards topped by no other nation. A major long-term issue will be the sharp decline in the ratio of workers to retirees.
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GDP: $189,300,000,000 USD
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Currency: Danish krone
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GDP per Capita: $34,800 USD
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Currency Code: DKK
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GDP Growth Rate: 3.20 %
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Currency Exchange Rate History: Danish kroner per US dollar - 5.9969 (2005), 5.9911 (2004), 6.5877 (2003), 7.8947 (2002), 8.3228 (2001)
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GDP of Agriculture: 1.80 %
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GDP of Industry: 24.60 %
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GDP of Services: 73.50 % |
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Inflation Rate: 1.80 % |
Population in Poverty: 0.00 %
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Unemployment Rate: 5.70 %
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Tourism: 2,023.00 visitors each year
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Consumption by lowest 10%: 2.00 %
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Budget Revenue in USD: $144,000,000,000 USD
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Consumption by upper 10%: 24.00 %
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Budget Expenditures in USD: $135,000,000,000 USD
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Electricity Production: 43,320,000,000 kWh
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Electricity Exports: 15,600,000,000 kWh
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Electricity Consumption: 31,680,000,000 kWh
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Electricity Imports: 7,000,000,000 kWh
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Electricity Production by Source:
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Fossil Fuel Electricity Production: 83.86%
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Nuclear Electricity Production: 0.00%
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Hydro Electricity Production: 0.08%
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Other Electricity Production: 16.06%
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Oil Production: 376,900 barrels per day
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Natural Gas Production: 7,965,000,000 cu m
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Oil Consumption: 188,300 barrels per day
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Natural Gas Consumption: 5,173,000,000 cu m
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Oil Exports: 332,100 barrels per day
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Natural Gas Exports: 3,100,000,000 cu m
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Oil Imports: 195,000 barrels per day
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Natural Gas Imports: 0 cu m
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Proven Oil Reserves: 1,230,000,000 barrels
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Proven Natural Gas Reserves: 73,510,000,000 cu m
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External Debt: $352,900,000,000 USD |
Received in economic aid: $0 USD
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Donated in economic aid: $2,000,000,000 USD
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Agricultural Products: barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish
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Primary 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 eq
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Industrial Growth Rate: 1.60 %
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Import Amount in USD: $74,690,000,000 USD - machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
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Import Partners: Germany 20.5%, Sweden 13.8%, Norway 6.6%, Netherlands 6.6%, UK 6%, China 4.7%, France 4.2%, Italy 4.1%
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Export Amount in USD: $84,950,000,000 USD - machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills
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Export Partners: Germany 17.5%, Sweden 13.2%, UK 8.8%, US 6.4%, France 5.5%, Netherlands 5.3%, Norway 5.1%
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GINI Index: 23.20%
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Labor Force Number of People: 2,900,000
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Labor Force by Occupations: services 76%, industry 21%, agriculture 3%
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Radio Broadcast Stations: 357 |
Number of People with Radios: 6,020,000 |
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Television Broadcast Stations: 26 |
Number of People with Televisions: 3,121,000 |
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Number of People with Mainline Telephones: 3,350,000 |
Number of People with Mobile Phones: 5,469,000 |
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Internet Service Providers: 2,110,002 |
Internet Users: 3,762,500 |
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Internet Country Code: .dk |
Newspapers: 283 |
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Two Letter Country Code: DA |
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Phone Country Code: 45 |
Electricity Voltage: 230 Volts |
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Telephone Systems: general assessment: excellent telephone and telegraph services
domestic: buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network, 4 cellular mobile communications systems
international: country code - 45; 18 submarine fiber-optic cables linking Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and UK; satellite earth stations - 6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for worldwide Inmarsat access
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Highways: 72,257 km |
Railways: 2,673 km
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Gas And Oil Pipelines: 1,388 km |
Waterways: 400 km
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Airports: 28 |
Heliports: 0
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Motor Vehicles: 415 per 1,000 people |
CO2 Emissions: 60,125,000 Metric Tons of CO2 per year |
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Per capita CO2 emissions: 10.70 Metric Tons of CO2 per year |
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Merchant Marines: total: 293 ships (1000 GRT or over) 7,986,735 GRT/9,936,431 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 7, cargo 63, chemical tanker 48, container 86, liquefied gas 4, livestock carrier 2, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 40, petroleum tanker 23, refrigerated cargo 7, roll on/roll off 8, specialized tanker 4
foreign-owned: 25 (Canada 1, Germany 13, Greece 5, Greenland 1, Norway 3, Sweden 1, UK 1)
registered in other countries: 409 (Antigua and Barbuda 14, Bahamas 59, Belgium 4, Cayman Islands 5, Cyprus 1, Egypt 1, Estonia 2, France 1, French Southern and Antarctic Lands 2, Gibraltar 1, Hong Kong 6, Isle of Man 53, North Korea 1, Liberia 8, Lithuania 10, Malta 6, Marshall Islands 1, Mexico 2, Netherlands 9, Netherlands Antilles 1, Norway 32, Panama 34, Portugal 4, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 14, Singapore 52, South Africa 1, Spain 1, Sweden 4, UK 46, US 24, Vanuatu 6, Venezuela 3, Vietnam 1)
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Ports and Harbors: Aalborg, Aarhus, Asnaesvaerkets, Copenhagen, Elsinore, Ensted, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Frederikshavn, Graasten, Kalundborg, Odense, Roenne
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Population: 5,450,661 people type - nationality |
Birth Rate: 11.13 births per 1,000 people |
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Population Density: 125.00 people per sq km |
Death Rate: 10.36 deaths per 1,000 people |
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Population Growth: 0.33% per year |
Fertility Rate per Women: 1.74 babies born per woman |
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Population Male 0-14: 523 |
Population Female 0-14: 496 |
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Population Male 15-64: 1 |
Population Female 15-64: 1 |
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Population Male 65+: 355 |
Population Female 65+: 472 |
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Population 0-14: 18.70% |
Literacy Rate: 99.00% |
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Population 15-64: 66.10% |
Literacy rate of Males: 99.00% |
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Population 65+: 15.20% |
Literacy rate of Females: 99.00% |
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Population that is Male: 49.00
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Population that is Female: 51.00% |
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Life expectancy at birth in years: 77.79 years |
Infant mortality rate - baby deaths per 1000 births: 4.51 Babies die per 1,000 births |
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Life expectancy at birth for Males: 75.49 years |
Life expectancy at birth for Females: 80.22 years |
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Rate of AIDS/HIV infection: 0.20%
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Number of people living with AIDS or HIV: 5,000
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Number of people who died of AIDS: 0 |
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Net Migration Rate per 1,000 people: 2.52
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Nationality: DANISH
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Ethnic Groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
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Primary Language: Danish
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Other Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
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Primary Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
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Other Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
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Branches: Defense Command: Army Operational Command, Admiral Danish Fleet, Tactical Air Command
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Manpower Fit to Serve: 18 years
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Manpower Available: 2,325,735 People
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Manpower Fit to Serve: 1,890,811 People
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Amount of Manpower Available each Year: 60,875 People per year
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Expenditures: $0 USD per year
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Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: 1.50
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Note: Phrasebase uses a variety of sources when compiling the facts and information presented above. This information is continually updated throughout the year.
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