Population of Denmark 2021
As of 2021, the latest population of Denmark is 5,869,410, based on AllCityPopulation calculation of the current data from UN (United Nations).
Population Distribution
| Total population | 5,869,410 |
| Population growth rate | 0.48% |
| Birth rate | 10.50 births per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy | |
| Overall | 78.94 years |
| Men | 76.54 years |
| Women | 81.47 years |
| Age structure | |
| 0-14 years | 16.57% |
| 15-64 years | 64.03% |
| 65 years and above | 19.42% |
| Median age | 41.80 years |
| Gender ratio (Male to Female) | 0.97 |
| Population density | 136.20 residents per km² |
| Urbanization | 85.30% |
| Ethnicities | |
| Danes (Scandinavians, Faroe Islands, Inuit); Proportion of foreigners 2015: 7.5% | |
| Religions | |
| Lutherans 95%, Other Protestants and Catholics (Roman Catholic) 3%, Muslims 2% | |
| Human Development Index (HDI) | 0.930 |
| HDI ranking | 11th out of 194 |
People in Denmark
The Danes
90 percent of Denmark’s residents are Danish. The remaining 10 percent include people from other Scandinavian countries (for example Sweden) and the “German minority”, who mainly live in the border area with Germany.
75 percent of the population belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Danish People’s Church and are therefore Protestants. There are few Catholics (0.6 percent) and Muslims (3 percent). Most of the Danes, namely 88 percent, live in the city.
Languages in Denmark
Danish is spoken in Denmark. Danish belongs to the Indo-European languages and here again to the North Germanic (Nordic or Scandinavian) languages. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are so similar that a Dane can understand a Norwegian without much problem – practical, right?
There are several dialects of Danish. So one speaks differently in Jutland (namely Jutisch) than on the islands, for example on Zealand and Funen (island Danish). Bornholm, the easternmost island in Denmark, also has a dialect: Bornholmisch or East Danish.
In Danish there are no umlauts (ie ä, ö, ü) and no “ß”. However, our “ä” corresponds to Æ in Danish (lower case: æ). Our “ö” corresponds to the slashed o: Ø (lowercase letter: ø). Then there is the “A” with a curl on top: Å (lower case: å). It replaced the double “aa” in a spelling reform in 1948. It is pronounced more like an “o”. The little ring stands for the “o”. Since 1948, nouns have also been written in Danish in lower case (as in English).
