
Telecommunication in Denmark
The development of telecommunications in Denmark is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +45, there were a total of 7.99 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.29 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.2 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 4.30 million webhosts, Denmark is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 1.62 million of these, or about 38 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 192.23 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Denmark ranks 8th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 104.86 Mbit/second (9th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Denmark comes 5th with a download speed of 119.55 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 19 Mbit was only enough for 8th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in December 2022 from 178 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Denmark from 1990 - 2021
Broadband internet in Denmark 2000 - 2021

Landlines 1990 - 2021
Mobile phones 1990 - 2021
Distribution in 2021 | Denmark Total | Denmark percent | USA Total | USA percent |
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Broadband users | 2.61 m | 44.49 % | 127.03 m | 38.27 % |
Landlines | 706,604.00 | 12.06 % | 97.11 m | 29.26 % |
Mobile cellulars | 7.29 m | 124.44 % | 361.62 m | 108.96 % |