Population (total, 1 January)

In 2025, Denmark's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.5% compared to 2024, reaching 5,992,734.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 450,646,971.

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 2.9% (from 5,822,763 in 2020).

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