Population — national citizens

In 2023, Denmark's population increased by 0.0% compared to 2022, reaching 5,311,487.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 0.7% (from 5,275,198 in 2018).

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