Population — national citizens

In 2020, Denmark's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2019, reaching 5,285,641.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 410,499,424.

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 0.9% (from 5,237,156 in 2015).

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