Population (total, 1 January)

In 2021, Denmark's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.3% compared to 2020, reaching 5,840,045.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 445,891,011.

Denmark ranks 16th 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 2.3% (from 5,707,251 in 2016).

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