Denmark 
Facts
Population:
5,352,815 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
18.59% (male 510,826; female 484,385)
15-64 years:
66.56% (male 1,804,617; female 1,758,019)
65 years and over:
14.85% (male 331,906; female 463,062) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.3% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
11.96 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.9 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.98 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.72 male(s)/female
total population:
0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
5.04 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
76.72 years
male:
74.12 years
female:
79.47 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.73 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.17% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
4,300 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Dane(s)
adjective:
Danish
Ethnic groups:
Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
Religions:
Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslims 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:
100%
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $136.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.8% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $25,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
3%
industry:
25%
services:
72% (2000 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):
2.9% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
2.856 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 79%, industry 17%, agriculture 4% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:
5.3% (2000)
Budget:
revenues:
$52.9 billion
expenditures:
$51.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $500 million (2001 est.)
Industries:
food processing, machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, chemical products, electronics, construction, furniture, and other wood products, shipbuilding, windmills
Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
37.885 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
88.4%
hydro:
0.07%
nuclear:
0%
other:
11.53% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
32.916 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
7.28 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
4.963 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
grain, potatoes, rape, sugar beets; pork and beef, dairy products; fish
Exports:
$50.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills
Exports - partners:
EU 66.5% (Germany 20.1%, Sweden 11.7%, UK 9.6%, France 5.3%, Netherlands 4.7%), Norway 5.8%, US 5.4% (1999)
Imports:
$43.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
Imports - partners:
EU 72.1% (Germany 21.6%, Sweden 12.4%, UK 8.0%, Netherlands 8.0%, France 5.8%), Norway 4.2%, US 4.5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$21.7 billion (2000)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.63 billion (1999)
Currency:
Danish krone (DKK)
Currency code:
DKK
Exchange rates:
Danish kroner per US dollar - 7.951 (January 2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999), 6.701 (1998), 6.604 (1997), 5.799 (1996); note - the Danes rejected the Euro in a 28 September 2000 referendum
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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Afrika News Network
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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
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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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