Population — national citizens

In 2021, Denmark's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2020, reaching 5,300,551.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 1.1% (from 5,244,104 in 2016).

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