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National Bank of Denmark (Danmarks Nationalbank)
USD 63 billion (2015)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 314.8 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 274.4 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| 3.8% | 0.8% | -0.7% | -5.1% | 1.6% | 1.2% | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| -0.2% | 1.3% | 1% | 1% | 1.5% |
*Estimate
USD 55,154.5 (2017, estimate)
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017* |
| 0.46% | 0.41% | 0.36% | 0.26% | 0.2% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
3.1% (2014)
OECD, data retrieved January 2017
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 7.0% | 6.5% | 6.2% | 6.0% | 5.8% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 44.7% | 44.8% | 45.5% | 45.7% | 46.3% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| -1.1% | 1.5% | -1.7% | -0.9% | -1.9% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: AAA
Moody': Aaa
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | NA |
Danske Bank, Møller-Maersk, Novo Nordisk, Vestas Wind Systems, Carlsberg, Jyske Bank, Pandora, ISS, Novozymes, DSV, Coloplast.
6.6% (2017 estimate)
53.4% (2015)
0.6% (2015)
1.3% (2015)
Machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills
Machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
Germany 17.8%, Sweden 11.6%, US 8.4%, Norway 6.3%, UK 6.3%, Netherlands 4.4%, China 4.2% (2015)
Germany 20.4%, Sweden 12.3%, Netherlands 8.1%, China 7.3%, Norway 6.1%, UK 4.4% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 1,051 million | USD 3,474 million | USD 3,642 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 7,176 million | USD 8,410 million | USD 13,214 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 552.9 million | USD 293.3 million | USD 3009.2 million | USD 2198.4 million |
N/A
N/A
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 3 out of 190 countries (2016)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 24 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 24 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 12 out of 190 countries
Getting credit: 32 out of 190 countries
Protecting investors: 19 out of 190 countries
Trading across border: 1 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 7 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 6 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 14 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 8 out of 190 countries
12 out of 138 countries
(2016-2017)
Ranking: 12 / Score: 75.26 (Mostly free) (2017)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language
Evangelical Lutheran (official) 80%, Muslim 4%, other (denominations of less than 1% each, includes Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, and Buddhist) 16% (2012 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 5.135 million | 5.33 million | 5.535 million | 5.683 million | 5.812 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 74% | 84% | 85% | 88% |
29.1 (2012)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 1
Civil Liberties: 1 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 29.92% Mobile 128.34% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)