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 Denmark
All information: Denmark
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:42,920 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:5,797,000 327,167,000
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 km²:135.1 33.3
Life expectancy males:79.2 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:82.9 years 81.1 years
Birthrate:10.60 ‰ 11.80 ‰
Deathrate:8.20 ‰ 8.50 ‰
Migrationrate:4.30 ‰ 3.80 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:90 73
Civil rights:100 97
Health:81 68
Security:98 63
Climate:15 65
Cost of Living:38 8
Popularity:79 95


Economy

Currency:Danish Krone (1 DKK = 100 øre) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:4.8 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:0.81 % 2.44 %
Cost of Living:129.30 % 108.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:23.80 % 36.60 %
Average income:50,923 € 53,412 €
Corruption index:88 (good) 71 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:301,165 Mio €51.95 M € 17,395,718 M €53.17 M €
Gross national product:295,200 Mio €50.92 M € 17,473,597 M €53.41 M €
Exported goods:167,534 M €28.90 M € 2,117,955 M €6.47 M €
Imported goods:149,425 M €25.77 M € 2,649,443 M €8.10 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:74,558 km12.86 km 6,586,610 km20.13 km
Railways:3,476 km0.60 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:400 km0.07 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:6680.115 3,6920.011
Airports:800.014 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:33.02 bn kWh5.70 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.93 m kWh
Energy production:29.84 bn kWh5.15 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.52 m kWh
Energy export:9.92 bn kWh1.71 m kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,633.14 kWh
Energy imports:14.98 bn kWh2.58 m kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,271.51 kWh
CO2 emissions:33.50 m t5,778.07 t 5.25 bn t16,059.91 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+45 +1
Internet domain:.dk .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:1,131,064195 116,724,000357
Mobile phones:7,197,0001,241 404,577,3971,237
Internet server:4,297,000741 505,000,0001,544
Internet users:5,660,874976 285,506,302873



Climate

Detailed info for: Denmark and United States

Daytime temperatures:12.2 °C 18.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:6.3 °C 7.1 °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 %
Turkish:0.8 % n/a
German:0.5 % 0.7 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
Arabic:0.7 % n/a
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Swedish:0.3 % n/a
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Norwegian:0.3 % n/a
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
other:3.6 % 3.0 %


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 %