Denmark 
Facts
Population: 5,468,120 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 18.6% (male 520,669/female 494,228)
15-64 years: 66% (male 1,817,757/female 1,792,974)
65 years and over: 15.4% (male 363,828/female 478,664) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.311% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.91 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 10.3 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 2.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.053 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.014 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.76 male(s)/female
total population: 0.977 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.45 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.49 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.41 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.96 years
male: 75.65 years
female: 80.41 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.74 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 5,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Dane(s)
adjective: Danish.
Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali.
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Christian (includes Protestant and Roman Catholic) 3%, Muslim 2%.
Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $201.5 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $37,000 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 24.6%
services: 74% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 2.91 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 3%
industry: 21%
services: 76% (2004 est.).
Population below poverty line: NA%.
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 24% (2000 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 3.8% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $147 billion
expenditures: $138.9 billion; including capital expenditures of $4.6 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish.
Industries: iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, food processing, machinery and transportation equipment, textiles and clothing, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding and refurbishment, windmills, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment.
Industrial production growth rate: 2.5% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 43.35 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - consumption: 36.41 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - exports: 13.72 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - imports: 6.77 billion kWh (2006).
Exports: $93.93 billion f.o.b. (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: $89.32 billion f.o.b. (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).
Debt - external: $405 billion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $2.13 billion (2005).
Currency (code): Danish krone (DKK).
Exchange rates: Danish kroner per US dollar - 5.9468 (2006), 5.9969 (2005), 5.9911 (2004), 6.5877 (2003), 7.8947 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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Afrika News Network
Copenhagen
Copenhagen
http://www.stiften-aarhus.dk/
(Conservative), Copenhagen
http://www.berlingske.dk/
Ronne
http://www.bornholmstidende.dk/
Copenhagen
http://www.borsen.dk/
(English-language weekly), Copenhagen
http://www.cphpost.dk
Dagen
(Liberal Daily), Copenhagen
Denmark in the News
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World Press Review - Denmark rejects the Euro and we review the international press.
Documentary films should strive to give a clear view of what the world looks like,” says Sonja Vesterholt, 55—a Russian-born filmmaker who lives in Denmark and in January won first prize at the prestigious Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz, France.
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