Geography - note:
controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and
North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater
Copenhagen
People Denmark
Population:
5,450,661 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 18.7% (male 523,257/female 496,697)
15-64 years: 66.1% (male 1,815,240/female 1,787,406)
65 years and over: 15.2% (male 355,656/female 472,405) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 39.8 years
male: 38.9 years
female: 40.7 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.33% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
11.13 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
10.36 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
2.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2006 est.)