Population (total, 1 January)

In 2020, Denmark's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.3% compared to 2019, reaching 5,822,763.

Denmark accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 447,030,024.

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 5,659,715 in 2015).

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