Denmark

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PROFILE
  • Area: 43,094 sq. km (16,639 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 5,593,785 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.22% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 79.4 years (2016)
  • Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic, German (small minority), English (second language)
  • Religions: Evangelical Lutheran (official) 80%, Muslim 4%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, and Buddhist) 16%
  • Formal name: Kingdom of Denmark
  • Alternate names: Danemark, Danimarca, Danmark, Kingdom of Denmark, Kongeriget Danmark
  • Government type: parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  • Leaders: chief of state: Queen MARGRETHE II; head of government: Prime Minister Lars LOEKKE RASMUSSEN
  • Capital: Copenhagen
  • Administrative divisions: 5 regions
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $45,700 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills
  • Imports: machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
  • Currency: Danish krone (DKK)
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