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Denmark

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Denmark is a country. The capital city is Copenhagen, located in the Northern Europe region of Europe. It has a land area of 40,000 km², a population of 5,946,952 people and uses the currency Danish krone. The Prime Minister is Mette Frederiksen.

Key facts

currency: Danish krone
capital city: Copenhagen
region: Northern Europe
continent: Europe
land area: 40,000 km²
population: 5,946,952 people
political leader: Mette Frederiksen (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 75.33 % of GDP
expense: 32.54 % of GDP
GDP: 407,091,920,305.40 current US$
inflation: 3.31 annual %
self-employed workers: 8.42 % of total employment
tax revenue: 30.42 % of GDP
unemployment: 5.09 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 5.75 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 15,000 people
democracy score: 9.22
democracy type: Full democracy
individuals using the Internet: 98.80 % of population
military expenditure: 1.95 % of GDP
net migration: 31,006 people
press freedom: 7.92
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 43.58 %
birth rate: 9.90 per 1,000 people
death rate: 10.10 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 6,332.00 current US$
health expenditure: 9.50 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 2.51 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 81
suicide mortality rate: 10.70 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 26,180.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 11.75 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 26.77 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 24.54 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 6.27 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.06 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 1.08 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 65.44 % of total
net energy imports: 1.77 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.55 births per woman
forest area: 6,303 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 64.93 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 41.83 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 37.20
methane emissions: 10.48 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 4.47 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 2,990,995 people
male population: 2,955,957 people
renewable energy consumption: 39.50 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 40,365.63 km²
rural population: 684,197 people
urban land area: 2,235.49 km²
urban population: 5,262,755 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 8.65 % of total population

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Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Denmark

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Share of medals won by Denmark in the Olympics

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