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GeographyLocation: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany
Area: Land boundaries: total 68 km, Germany 68 km Coastline: 3,379 km
PeoplePopulation: 5,199,437 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
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 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.)
Government
Names:
Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Copenhagen Independence: 1849 (became a constitutional monarchy) Constitution: 5 June 1953
EconomyNational 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:
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