Population — national citizens

In 2016, Denmark's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2015, reaching 5,244,104.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

Denmark ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.6% (from 5,214,582 in 2011).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.