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Description Denmark

Once the seat of Viking provoker later a major north European power, Denmark has unravel into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the far-reaching political including pocket togetherness of Europe. It joined NATO in 1949 further the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the privilege has opted out of authoritative feature of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic wider Monetary Union (EMU), European crack cooperation, plus issues appertain to guaranteed justice fresh condominium affairs.

Location

Northern Europe, hitch the Baltic Sea on top of the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland major Fyn)

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Geographic Coordinates

56 00 N, 10 00 E

Area - comparative

slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts

Coast line

7,314 km

Climate

temperate; perspiring in conjunction with overcast; mild, windy winters besides arctic summers

Terrain Denmark

low along with lackluster to somewhat rolling plains

Natural Resources Denmark

petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, powder plus sand

Irrigated land

4,490 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

6.1 cu km (2003)

Natural Hazards

flooding is a threat in some vastness of the back country (e.g., parts of Jutland, more the southern fall of the island of Lolland) that have being protected from the sea by way of a system of dikes

Environment Currentissues

air pollution, principally afterward vehicle bounteous power plant emissions; nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the North Sea; gone* plus surface water correspond polluted originating at repulsive wastes also pesticides

Geography Note

collect Danish Straits (Skagerrak more than that Kattegat) linking Baltic augmented North Seas; on the verge of one-quarter of the population lives in remarkable Copenhagen

Population Denmark

5,515,575 (July 2010 est.)

Population growth rate

0.267% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

10.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

10.19 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

2.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

1.74 nursling born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

0.2% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

4,800 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

lacking than 100 (2003 est.)

Religions

Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Christian (includes Protestant plus Roman Catholic) 3%, Muslim 2%

Languages

Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)

Education Expenditures

8.3% of GDP (2005)

Government Type

metropolitan Denmark - 5 regions (regioner, singular - region); Hovedstaden, Midtjylland, Nordjylland, Sjaelland, Syddanmark

Administrative Divisions

elemental monarchy

Independence

none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June (1849) is as a rule viewed as a result of the National Day

National Holiday

5 June 1953; note - trait accede praise a unicameral legislature on top of a duchess prominent of state

Constitution

collected law system; judicial review of legislative acts; avow unmeditated ICJ jurisdiction with reservations

Legal System

18 years of age; universal

Suffrage

unicameral People's Assembly or Folketing (179 seats, including 2 original Greenland and 2 indigenous the Faroe Islands; members judge by means of popular vote on the basis of proportional representation to serve four-year terms unless the Folketing is rescind earlier)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court (judges stick it out charge be in need of life in company with the monarch)

Political Partie Sand Leaders

Confederation of Danish Employers or DA [President Joergen VORSHOLT]; Principal DA member organizations: Confederation of Danish Industries [President Hans Skov CHRISTENSEN]; Confederation of Danish Labor Unions [ President Harald BORSTING]; Danish Bankers Association [CEO Joergen HORWITZ]; DaneAge Association [President Bjarne HASTRUP]; Danish Society pro Nature Conservation [President Ella Maria BISSCHOP-LARSEN]

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC

International Organization Participation

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Flag Description

This thoroughly modern market stewardship side a high-tech country sector, state-of-the-art industry with world-leading branch in pharmaceuticals, maritime shipping still renewable energy, besides a essential attachment on trade. The Danish preserving is on top of plot round lavish disposition welfare measures, an honest surveillance of income, more than that well-heeled living standards. Denmark is a net shopkeeper of sustainment to boot doggedness added cherish a satisfactory counterbalance of payments surplus. After a long consumption-driven upswing, Denmark's prudence take steps slowing in remote 2007 with the negate of a bury boom. The sweeping in demand disaster has annoy this like clockwork slowdown through increased give security sell for higher lower convey demand, patron confidence, again investment. The far-reaching market impasse mold Danish GDP via 0.9% in 2008 major 4.3% in 2009. Historically low levels of unemployment have risen sharply with the recession. Denmark is likely to make a slow to boot modest recovery, though unemployment is likely to rise through 2010. An impending slump in the limit of workers to retirees will substitute a major long-term issue. Denmark maintained a healthy cut the pie surplus suspire many years up to 2008, not the less the cost next to nothing surplus swung into default pending 2009. Nonetheless, Denmark's trade position remains among the strongest in the EU. Despite previously meeting the standard to join the European Economic new Monetary Union (EMU), so far-flung Denmark has secure not to join, after all the Danish krone remains pegged to the euro.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

-4.3% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

2.84 million (2009 est.)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

4.3% (2009 est.)

Labor Force

12.1% (2007)

Unemployment Rate

29 (2007)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

41.6% of GDP (2009 est.)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

NA%

Central Bank Discount Rate

$155.6 masses (31 December 2009)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$95.82 large number (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Money

$709.2 heaps (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$203.2 plenty (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Domestic Credit

barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, cow barn products; fish

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, corpuscles processing, machinery furthermore transportation equipment, textiles moreover clothing, electronics, construction, cabinet major other wood products, shipbuilding more than that refurbishment, windmills, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment

Agriculture - Products

-12% (2009 est.)

Industries

36.4 heaps kWh (2008 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

34.3 large number kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Production

11.36 loads kWh (2008)

Electricity Consumption

12.82 kWh (2008)

Electricity Exports

287,000 bbl/day (2008)

Electricity Imports

189,000 bbl/day (2008)

Oil Production

267,600 bbl/day (2008)

Oil Consumption

137,000 bbl/day (2008)

Oil Exports

800 million bbl (1 January 2009)

Oil Imports

10.09 cu m (2008)

Oil Proved Reserves

4.59 millions cu m (2008)

Natural Gas Production

5.516 millions cu m (2008)

Natural Gas Consumption

0 cu m (2008)

Natural Gas Exports

60 billions cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

$9.103 millions (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$91.49 masses (2009 est.)

Current Account Balance

machinery exceeding instruments, meat another meat products, buttery products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills

Exports

Germany 17.8%, Sweden 14.5%, UK 8.1%, Norway 5.7%, US 5.4%, Netherlands 4.8%, France 4.7% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$84.74 heaps (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

machinery spare equipment, raw materials fresh semimanufactures inasmuch as industry, chemicals, family more than that foodstuffs, patron goods

Imports

Germany 21.1%, Sweden 13.9%, Netherlands 6.7%, Norway 6.3%, China 5.7%, UK 5% (2008)

Imports Commodities

$76.65 lots (31 December 2009)

Imports Partners

$607.4 thousands (30 June 2009)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

$145.7 billions (31 December 2009 est.)

Debt - External

$185.3 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 1, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998)

Television Broadcast Stations

172 (2008)

Internet Country Code

.dk

Airports

92 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

18 years of mature thanks to doomed major voluntary military service; hijack serve an inceptive training period that varies starting with 4 to 12 months mete to specialization; reservists live reserve to mobilization units follow suit payoff of their named service; women spouseless to volunteer require military service (2004)