Global Network Denmark

GN Code: GNDMA

Website: www.astd.dk

President: Susan Bahl, info@astd.dk

Steering Committee Members:

Anne Bæhr, ab@astd.dk

Benny Berthelsen, bb@astd.dk

Jesper Oehlenschlæger, joe@businessdanmark.dk

Mette Mari Aggergaard, mette.mari.aggergaard@post.dk

About Denmark

National name: Kongeriget Danmark

Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic ( Inuit dialect), German

Capital: Copenhagen

Government type: constitutional monarchy

National holiday: Constitution Day, 5 June (1849)

Currency: Danish Krone (DKK)

Area: 16,639 sq.mile (43,094 sq. km)

Population: (2005 est.): 5,432,335

Population density: per sq.mile: 326

Age structure:
0-14 years: 18.8%
15-64 years: 66.1%
65 years and over: 15.1%

Median age:
total: 39.47 years
male: 38.55 years
female: 40.4 years

Economic summary: GDP/PPP ( 2004 est.): $174.4 billion; per capita $32,200

Labor force: 2.87 million; services 79%, industry 17%, agriculture 4%

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, stone, gravel and sand

Industries: iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, food processing, machinery and transportation equipment, textiles and clothing, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding and refurbishment, windmills

Exports: $73.06 billion f.o.b.(2004 est.)

Exports commodities: machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills

Imports: $63.45 billion f.o.b.(2004 est.)

Imports commodities: machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods