Basic statistics of Denmark
2018 or latest available year (OECD values in parentheses)1
PEOPLE AND SOCIETY
Population (million)	6			Population density per km2	134	(36)
Share of population by type of region:				Population compound annual growth rate, latest 5 years	0.4	(0.6)
Predominantly urban (%)	23	(48)		Income inequality (Gini coefficient)	0.26	(0.32)
Intermediate (%)	49	(27)		Poverty rate (% of pop. with less than 50% median income)	5	(11)
Rural (%)	29	(25)		Life expectancy	81	(81)
ECONOMY AND EXTERNAL ACCOUNTS
Total GDP (National currency, billion)	2.2			Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)	49	29
Total GDP (USD, billion, current prices and PPPs)	326			Main exports (% of total merchandise exports)
GDP compound annual real growth rate, latest 5 years	2.0	(2.3)		Machinery and transport equipment	28
GDP per capita (1 000 USD current PPPs)	57	(46)		Chemicals and related products	23
Value added shares (%)				Food and live animals	16
Agriculture	1	(2)		Main imports (% of total merchandise imports)
Industry including construction	23	(25)		Machinery and transport equipment	34
Services	76	(73)		Miscellaneous manufactured articles	16
Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)	55	(29)		Manufactured goods	14
GENERAL GOVERNMENT Percentage of GDP
Expenditure	51.2	(40.6)		Education expenditure	6.5	(5.2)
Revenue	52.3	(37.8)		Health expenditure	8.4	(7.6)
Gross financial debt	48.9	(112.5)		Environment protection expenditure	0.4	(0.5)
Fiscal balance	1.2	-(2.8)		Environmental taxes: (% of GDP)	4.0	(1.6)
				(% of total tax revenue)	8.7	(5.3)
LABOUR MARKET, SKILLS AND INNOVATION
Unemployment rate (% of civilian labour force)	5.7	(5.8)		Patent applications in environment-related technologies (% of all technologies, average of latest 3 years2	18	(10)
Tertiary educational attainment of 25-64 year-olds (%)	39	(37)		Environmental management	5	(4)
Gross expenditure on R&D, % of GDP	3.1	(2.4)		Water-related adaptation technologies	0.4	(0.5)
				Climate change mitigation technologies	15	(7)
ENVIRONMENT
Energy intensity: TPES per capita (toe/cap.)	3.0	(4.1)		Road vehicle stock (vehicles./100 inhabitants)	54	(64)
TPES per GDP (toe/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)	0.06	(0.11)		Water stress (abstraction as % of available resources)	4.0	(9.7)
Renewables (% of TPES)	35	(10)		Water abstraction per capita (m3/cap./year)	115	(804)
Carbon intensity (energy-related CO2):				Municipal waste per capita, (kg/capita)	785	(524)
Emissions per capita (t/cap.)	5.9	(9.0)		Material productivity (USD, 2010 PPPs/DMC, kg)	2.0	(2.4)
Emissions per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)	0.13	(0.24)		Land area (1 000 km2)	42
GHG intensity: 3				% of arable land and permanent crops	57	(12)
Emissions per capita (t CO2 eq/cap.)	9.0	(12.0)		% of permanent meadows and pastures	5	(22)
Emissions per GDP (t CO2 eq/1 000 USD, 2010 PPPs)	0.20	(0.31)		% of forest area	15	(31)
Mean population exposure to air pollution (PM2.5), µg/m3	10.4	(12.5)		% of other land (built-up and other land)	23	(34)
← 1. Values earlier than 2013 are not taken into consideration. OECD value: where the OECD aggregate is not provided in the source database, a simple OECD average of the latest available data is calculated where data exist for a significant number of countries.
← 2. Higher-value inventions that have sought protection in at least two jurisdictions.
← 3. Excluding emissions/removals from land use, land-use change and forestry.
Source: Calculations based on data extracted from databases of the OECD, IEA/OECD, EUROSTAT and the World Bank.