Branches:
Army, Air and Air Defense Forces, Civil Defense, Border Guard
Manpower availability:
males 15-49, 4,110,628; 3,142,457 fit for military service; 142,239 reach
military age (18) annually
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - 28 billion koruny, NA% of GNP (1991); note -
conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current
exchange rate would produce misleading results
:Denmark Geography
Total area:
43,070 km2
Land area:
42,370 km2; includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest
of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Comparative area:
slightly more than twice the size of Massachusetts
Land boundaries:
68 km; Germany 68 km
Coastline:
3,379 km
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone:
4 nm
Continental shelf:
200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation
Exclusive fishing zone:
200 nm
Territorial sea:
3 nm
Disputes:
Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and the UK
(Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area);
Denmark has challenged Norway's maritime claims between Greenland and Jan
Mayen
Climate:
temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers
Terrain:
low and flat to gently rolling plains
Natural resources:
crude oil, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone
Land use:
arable land 61%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 6%; forest and
woodland 12%; other 21%; includes irrigated 9%
Environment:
air and water pollution
Note:
controls Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas
:Denmark People
Population:
5,163,955 (July 1992), growth rate 0.2% (1992)
Birth rate:
13 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
12 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
1 migrant/1,000 population (1992)
Infant mortality rate:
7 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
72 years male, 78 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
1.7 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Dane(s); adjective - Danish
Ethnic divisions:
Scandinavian, Eskimo, Faroese, German
Religions:
Evangelical Lutheran 91%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 2%, other 7%
(1988)
Languages:
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Eskimo dialect); small German-speaking
minority
Literacy:
99% (male NA%, female NA%) age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
Labor force:
2,581,400; private services 36.4%; government services 30.2%; manufacturing
and mining 20%; construction 6.8%; agriculture, forestry, and fishing 5.9%;
electricity/gas/water 0.7% (1990)
Organized labor:
65% of labor force
:Denmark Government
Long-form name:
Kingdom of Denmark
Type:
constitutional monarchy
Capital:
Copenhagen
Administrative divisions:
metropolitan Denmark - 14 counties (amter, singular - amt) and 1 city*
(stad); Arhus, Bornholm, Frederiksborg, Fyn, Kbenhavn, Nordjylland, Ribe,
Ringkbing, Roskilde, Snderjylland, Staden Kbenhavn*, Storstrm, Vejle,
Vestsjaelland, Viborg; note - see separate entries for the Faroe Islands and
Greenland, which are part of the Danish realm and self-governing
administrative divisions
Independence:
became a constitutional monarchy in 1849
Constitution:
5 June 1953
Legal system:
civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
National holiday:
Birthday of the Queen, 16 April (1940)
Executive branch:
monarch, heir apparent, prime minister, Cabinet
Legislative branch:
unicameral parliament (Folketing)
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court
Leaders:
Chief of State:
Queen MARGRETHE II (since January 1972); Heir Apparent Crown Prince
FREDERIK, elder son of the Queen (born 26 May 1968)
Head of Government:
Prime Minister Poul SCHLUTER (since 10 September 1982)
Political parties and leaders:
Social Democratic Party, Paul Nyrup RASMUSSEN; Conservative Party, Poul
SCHLUTER; Liberal Party, Uffe ELLEMANN-JENSEN; Socialist People's Party,
Holger K. NIELSEN; Progress Party, Pia KJAERSGAARD; Center Democratic Party,
Mimi Stilling JAKOBSEN; Radical Liberal Party, Marianne JELVED; Christian
People's Party, Jam SJURSEN; Left Socialist Party, Elizabeth BRUN-OLESEN;
Justice Party, Poul Gerhard KRISTIANSEN; Socialist Workers Party, leader NA;
Communist Workers' Party (KAP), leader NA; Common Course, Preben Meller
HANSEN; Green Party, Inger BORLEHMANN
Suffrage:
universal at age 21
Elections:
Parliament:
last held 12 December 1990 (next to be held by December 1994); results -
Social Democratic Party 37.4%, Conservative Party 16.0%, Liberal 15.8%,
Socialist People's Party 8.3%, Progress Party 6.4%, Center Democratic Party
5.1%, Radical Liberal Party 3.5%, Christian People's Party 2.3%, other 5.2%;
seats - (179 total; includes 2 from Greenland and 2 from the Faroe Islands)
Social Democratic 69, Conservative 30, Liberal 29, Socialist People's 15,
Progress Party 12, Center Democratic 9, Radical Liberal 7, Christian
People's 4
:Denmark Government
Member of:
AfDB, AG (observer), AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, CCC, CE, CERN, COCOM, CSCE,
EBRD, EC, ECE, EIB, ESA, FAO, G-9, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU,
IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM,
ISO, ITU, LORCS, MTCR, NACC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OECD, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIIMOG, UNMOGIP, UNTSO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WM,
ZC
Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Peter Pedersen DYVIG; Chancery at 3200 Whitehaven Street NW,
Washington, DC 20008; telephone (202) 234-4300; there are Danish Consulates
General in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
US:
Ambassador Richard B. STONE; Embassy at Dag Hammarskjolds Alle 24, 2100
Copenhagen O (mailing address is APO AE 09716); telephone [45] (31)
42-31-44; FAX [45] (35) 43-0223
Flag:
red with a white cross that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical
part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side, and that design element of
the (Danish flag) was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries of
Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
:Denmark Economy