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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Denmark economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of Denmark best banks and safest banks are also available.
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National Bank of Denmark (Danmarks Nationalbank)
USD 70.9 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
USD 350.9 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 301.3 billion (2018, estimate)
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
0.9% | -0.5% | -4.9% | 1.9% | 1.3% | 0.2% | 0.9% |
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | ||
1.6% | 2.3% | 2.4% | 2.3% | 1.2% |
*Estimate
USD 60,692.4 (2018, estimate)
1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
0.46% | 0.41% | 0.36% | 0.26% | 0.22% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
3.1% (2017)
OECD, data retrieved October 2019
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
0.2% | 0% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 1.3% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
6.2% | 6.2% | 5.7% | 5% | 5% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
39.8% | 37.2% | 35.5% | 34.3% | 33% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
-1.3% | -0.1% | 1.5% | 0.5% | 0.2% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: AAA
Moody': Aaa
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
N/A | N/A | NA |
Møller-Maersk, Danske Bank, Novo Nordisk, Orsted, Carlsberg, Vestas Wind Systems, DSV, Coloplast, Jyske Bank, Novozymes, H Lundbeck, ISS, Drilling Company of 1972
6.6% (2017 estimate)
5.7 % (2018 estimate)
0.56% (2018)
1.20% (2018)
Wind turbines, pharmaceuticals, machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, furniture and design
Machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
Germany 15.5%, Sweden 11.6%, UK 8.2%, US 7.5%, Norway 6%, China 4.4%, Netherlands 4.4% (2017)
Germany 21.3%, Sweden 11.9%, Netherlands 7.8%, China 7.1%, Norway 6.3%, Poland 4% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 38 million | USD 3,447 million | USD 1,789 million |
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 9,881 million | USD 8,896 million | USD -3,690 million |
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 1,838 million | USD 1,330 million | USD 5,001 million | USD 2,427 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:
4 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 45 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 4 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 21 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 11 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 48 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 28 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 8 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 1 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 14 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 6 out of 190 countries
10 out of 141 countries
(2019)
Ranking: 14 / Score: 76.7 (Mostly free)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
Evangelical Lutheran (official) 74.7%, Muslim 5.5%, other/none/unspecified (denominations of less than 1% each in descending order of size include Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Pentecosta
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020* |
5.14 million | 5.33 million | 5.54 million | 5.66 million | 5.84 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
73.7% | 83.7% | 85.1% | 87.9% |
0.2% (last available estimate, 2015)
28.2 (last available estimate, 2015)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Free
Political Rights: 1
Civil Liberties: 1 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 19.7%
Mobile: 125.1%
(2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)