Population — national citizens

In 2017, Denmark's population increased by 0.4% compared to 2016, reaching 5,263,783.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

Denmark ranks 17th 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 0.8% (from 5,221,658 in 2012).

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