Population  5.56 million (estimate at July 2013)
Life expectancy (at birth): 76.54 years (male), 81.47 years (female) (estimated 2013)

Ethnic groups: 89.6% Danish, 10.4% other groups - Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Dutch, and more recent immigrants from Turkey, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Asia and the Middle East. (data from 2012).

Languages
*  Danish  (official national language)
*  Faroese (derived from Old West Norse)
*  Kalaallisut (or Greenlandic, an Eskimo-Aleut language)
*  German (mainly in the southern province of Sønderjylland).   Danish is also a recognised minority language in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Religion: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Christian (including both Protestant and Roman Catholic) 3%, Muslim 2%

Education expenditure:    8.7% of GDP (2009)
 
Youth unemployment: (15-24):    14.2%