| Population :
| 5,413,392 (July 2004 est.) .
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| Age structure 0-14 % :
| 18,90%.
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| Age structure 0-14.m :
| 523 888.
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| Age structure 0-14.f :
| 497 420.
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| Age structure 15-64 % :
| 66,20%.
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| Age structure 15-64.m :
| 1 808 376.
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| Age structure 15-64.f :
| 1 774 388.
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| Age structure 65 % :
| 15%.
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| Age structure 65.m :
| 344 113.
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| Age structure 65.f :
| 465 207.
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| Age structure est :
| 2004 est..
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| Median age total :
| 39.2 years .
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| Median age male :
| 38.3 years .
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| Median age female :
| 40.2 years (2004 est.) .
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| Population growth rate :
| 0.35% (2004 est.) .
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| Population growth rate note :
| .
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| Birth rate :
| 11.59 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) .
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| Death rate :
| 10.53 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) .
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| Net migration rate :
| 2.48 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) .
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| Sex ratio at birth :
| 1.06 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio under 15 :
| 1.05 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio 15-64 :
| 1.02 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio 65 :
| 0.74 male(s)/female .
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| Sex ratio total :
| 0.98 male(s)/female (2004 est.) .
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| Infant mortality rate male :
| 4.65 deaths/1,000 live births .
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| Infant mortality rate female :
| 4.6 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.) .
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| Life expectancy at birth total :
| 77.44 years .
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| Life expectancy at birth male :
| 75.17 years .
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| Life Expectancy at birth female :
| 79.83 years (2004 est.) .
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| Total fertility rate :
| 1.74 children born/woman (2004 est.) .
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| hiv aids :
| 0.2% (2003 est.) .
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| hiv aids people :
| 5,000 (2003 est.) .
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| hiv aids deaths :
| less than 100 (2003 est.) .
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| Nationality noun :
| Dane(s) .
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| Nationality adjective :
| Danish .
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| Ethnic groups :
| Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali .
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| Religions :
| Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2% .
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| Languages :
| Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) .
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| Literacy definition :
| age 15 and over can read and write .
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| Literacy total :
| 100%.
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| Literacy male :
| NA .
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| Literacy female :
| NA .
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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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| National holiday :
| none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June is generally viewed as the National Day .
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| Suffrage :
| 18 years of age; universal .
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| Economy 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; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%. .
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| Population below poverty line :
| NA .
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| Labor force by occupation :
| agriculture 4%, industry 17%, services 79% (2002 est.) .
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| Agriculture products :
| barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish .
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| Industries :
| food processing, machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, chemical products, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding, windmills .
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| Exports commodities :
| machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills .
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| Exports partners :
| Germany 16.1%, Sweden 12%, UK 7.4%, Norway 7%, US 6.2%, France 5.4%, Netherlands 4.1% (2003 est.) .
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| Imports commodities :
| none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June is generally viewed as the National Day .
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| Imports partners :
| none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June is generally viewed as the National Day .
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| Internet users :
| 2.756 million (2002) .
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| Hymne :
| A lovely land is ours
A lovely land is ours
With beeches green about her
Encircled by the sea
Her hills and vales are manifold
Her name, of old, is Denmark
And she is Freya's home
In days of long-ago
This land was home to heroes
From war they rested here
Then forth they went, to smite the foe
Now to their graves they've gone
Among the barrow-stones
This land is yet so fair
Her waters yet so blue
And green are still her leaves
And noble ladies, maidens fair,
And men and able lads
Still dwell on Danish soil
Hail Sovereign, hail Home !
Hail every Dane who labours
To do his very best
Our ancient Denmark shall abide,
While yet the waves reflect
The beeches in their blue
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Translation: Copyright 1996 Peter Ravn Rasmussen
"Permission granted to copy this document
for non-commercial or personal use".
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