Population — national citizens

In 2025, Denmark's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2024, reaching 5,315,187.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Denmark ranks 16th out of 26 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 5,285,641 in 2020).

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