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 Denmark
All information: Denmark
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:42,920 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:5,819,000 328,240,000
Official language:Danish English

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Government

Government form:Parliamentary constitutional monarchy Federal presidential republic
Independent since:800 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Copenhagen Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:135.6 33.4
Life expectancy males:79.1 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:82.9 years 81.1 years
Average age:41.1 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:10.60 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:9.50 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:2.80 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:90 75
Civil rights:100 96
Health:80 68
Security:98 63
Climate:14 64
Cost of Living:39 11
Popularity:73 92


Economy

Currency:Danish Krone (1 DKK = 100 øre) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:4.9 % 3.7 %
Inflation rate:0.76 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:130.50 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:23.80 % 36.60 %
Average income:56,490 € 58,741 €
Corruption index:87 (good) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:310,923 Mio €53.44 M € 19,140,420 M €58.31 M €
Gross national product:328,669 Mio €56.49 M € 19,280,405 M €58.74 M €
Exported goods:174,054 M €29.91 M € 2,231,382 M €6.80 M €
Imported goods:152,896 M €26.28 M € 2,782,006 M €8.48 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:74,558 km12.81 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:3,476 km0.60 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:400 km0.07 km 41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:6820.117 3,6730.011
Airports:800.014 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:33.02 bn kWh5.67 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:29.84 bn kWh5.13 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:9.92 bn kWh1.70 m kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:14.98 bn kWh2.57 m kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:31.79 m t5,462.79 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+45 +1
Internet domain:.dk .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:1,131,064194 109,961,000335
Mobile phones:7,197,0001,237 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:4,297,000738 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:5,662,569973 286,441,872873



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:2.50 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:4.46 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:8.3 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.1 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:39.0 % 77.0 %
Smokers:19.1 % 21.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Denmark and United States

Daytime temperatures:12.3 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:6.4 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:9.3 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:82 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:8 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:116.4 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:4.7 7.2


Native languages

Danish:93.5 % n/a
English:0.3 % 82.1 %
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
Turkish:0.8 % n/a
Arabic:0.7 % n/a
French:n/a 0.7 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
German:0.5 % 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Norwegian:0.3 % n/a
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Swedish:0.3 % n/a
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:3.6 % 2.8 %


Religions

Christianity:86.3 % 78.5 %
Islam:4.0 % 0.6 %
Jewry:1.0 % 1.8 %
Buddhism:1.0 % 0.7 %
other:7.7 % 18.4 %