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Geography

Location: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany

Area:
total area: 43,070 sq km
land area: 42,370 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Massachusetts

Land boundaries: total 68 km, Germany 68 km

Coastline: 3,379 km


People

Population: 5,199,437 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 17% (female 430,598; male 451,993)
15-64 years: 68% (female 1,731,531; male 1,780,083)
65 years and over: 15% (female 473,537; male 331,695)

Population growth rate: 0.22% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.38 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.14 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.96 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.11 years
male: 73.23 years
female: 79.16 years

Total fertility rate: 1.69 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Scandinavian, Eskimo, Faroese, German

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 91%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 2%, other7% (1988)

Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Eskimo dialect), German (small minority)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Denmark
conventional short form: Denmark

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Copenhagen

Independence: 1849 (became a constitutional monarchy)

Constitution: 5 June 1953


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $103 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.5%

National product per capita: $19,860

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2%

Unemployment rate: 12.3%

Electricity:
capacity: 10,030,000 kW
production: 32 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,835 kWh



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