Country profile · DK
Denmark
11 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
6m
GDP
€389.8B
GDP per capita
€65,042
Population density
138 /km²
Unemployment
6.4%
pop-weighted
Employment
79.7%
pop-weighted
Area
43,354.2 km²
NUTS-3 regions
11
Country indicators · 71 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€345.4B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€3.6B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€75.9B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€70.1B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€16.7B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€81.9B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€28,100
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
50,469 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€65,273
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€243.0B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€53.4B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€551.6B
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€35.2B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€16.1B
country total
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€88.7B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€78.5B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
3.2m
country total
Self-employed persons
174.1k
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
318k
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
82.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
13.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
383.2k
country total
Enterprise births
27.8k
country total
Enterprise deaths
37.5k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
3.3%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1k
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
184 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
6.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
45.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
51.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
30.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
30.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
11.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
97.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
39.8m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
478 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
35.2k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
587.5
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
38.8
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
17
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
3.8m
country total
Population aged 65+
1.3m
country total
Population aged under 15
931.6k
country total
Median age of population
42.5 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
33.3%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
5.3 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
5.3 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
9.5 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
9.6 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
57.1k
country total
Deaths
57.1k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
57.9%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.53
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
943 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
17.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
82.0 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
233 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
990 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
262 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.9 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
24.3 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
518 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
2,599 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
24 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
34 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
52 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9.2
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
61.9
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
DK011
Byen København
pop 831.4k · gdp €76.3B
DK012
Københavns omegn
pop 582.1k · gdp €68.6B
DK042
Østjylland
pop 945k · gdp €51.8B
DK032
Sydjylland
pop 733.1k · gdp €45.2B
DK050
Nordjylland
pop 592.8k · gdp €30.6B
DK022
Vest- og Sydsjælland
pop 592.1k · gdp €28.4B
DK013
Nordsjælland
pop 478.2k · gdp €27.5B
DK041
Vestjylland
pop 428.8k · gdp €24.7B
DK031
Fyn
pop 507.3k · gdp €23.6B
DK021
Østsjælland
pop 262.8k · gdp €11.3B
DK014
Bornholm
pop 39.1k · gdp €1.7B