Denmark
- Official Name:
- Kingdom of Denmark (Denmark)
- Area:
- 43.094 km 2
- Population (2007):
- 5.468.120 inhabitants
- Coastline:
- 7.314 km
- Capital:
- Copenhagen
- Maritime Ports and terminals:
- Alborg, Arhus, Copenhague, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Grenaa, Koge, Odense, Struer
- Maritime claims:
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- Territorial sea: 12 nm
- Contiguous zone: 24 nm
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
- Political divisions:
- metropolitan Denmark - 5 regions (regioner, singular - region); Hovedstaden, Midtjylland, Nordjylland, Sjaelland, Syddanmark Note: an extensive local government reform merged 271 municipalities into 98 and 13 counties into five regions, effective 1 January 2007
- Language(s):
- Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) Note: English is the predominant second language
- National holiday:
- None designated; Constitution Day, 5 June (1849) is generally viewed as the National Day
- Nationality:
- Dane(s)
- Official time:
- UTC 1. Daylight saving time: 1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
- Member of:
- AfDB, Arctic Council, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, G- 9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, MONUC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMEE, UNMIL, UNMOGIP, UNOMIG, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WEU (observer), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
- Internet country code:
- .dk
Economic Profile
- Currency:
-
Danish krone (DKK) - GDP - per capita (PPP):
- USD37.000 (2006 est.)
- GDP (official exchange rate):
- (2006 est.) USD 257.300.000.000
- PIB (Real growth rate:
- 3,2% (2006 est.)
- GDP (Composition by sector): (2006 est.)
-
- Agriculture: 1,4%
- Industry: 24,6%
- Services: 74%
- Labor force:
- 2.910.000 (2006 est.)
- Labor force - by occupation (2004):
-
- Agriculture 3%
- Industry: 21%
- Services 76%
- Unemployment rate:
- 3,8% (2006 est.)
- Inflation rate (Consumer prices):
- 1,8% (2006 est)
- Investment (Gross Fixed):
- 22,2% del PIB (2006 est.)
- Budget:
-
- Revenues: USD147.000.000.000
- Expenditures: USD138.900.000.000
- Public debt:
- 28,1% of GDP (2006 est.)
- Current account balance:
- USD 4.941.000.000 (2006 est.)
- Exports:
- USD 93.930.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)
- Exports - Commodities:
- Machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills
- Exports - Partners:
- Germany 17,6%, Sweden 13,2%, UK 8,7%, US 6,4%, France 5,5%, Netherlands 5,3%, Norway 5,1% (2005)
- Imports:
- USD 89.320.000.000 FOB (2006 est.)
- Imports - Commodities:
- Machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
- Imports - partners:
- Germany 20,5%, Sweden 13,8%, Norway 6,6%, Netherlands 6,5%, UK 5,9%, China 4,7%, France 4,2%, Italy 4,1% (2005)
- Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
- USD 30.380.000.000 (2006 est.)
- Debt - external:
- USD 405.000.000.000 (2006)
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