Population — national citizens

In 2024, Denmark's population decreased by 0.0% compared to 2023, reaching 5,311,255.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 0.6% (from 5,280,183 in 2019).

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