World's Top Calorie Consuming
Country Denmark - 3,808 daily calories per person The World
average is 2,745
Government Information
Chief
of State: Queen MARGRETHE II (since 14 January
1972) Head of Government: Prime Minister
Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN (since 27 November 2001) Government Type: constitutional
monarchy
Population Demographics
Population:
5,450,661 (July 2006 est.) Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic
(an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect),
German (small minority) Life Expectancy: 77.79
Economic Information
Currency:
Danish krone (DKK)
GDP(per capita): $34,600 (2005
est.)
Overview: This thoroughly modern
market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date
small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government
welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable
currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark
is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable
balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include
streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization
of state assets. The government has been successful
in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence
criteria for participating in the third phase (a common
European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary
Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12
other EU members in the euro. Nonetheless, the Danish
krone remains pegged to the euro. Economic growth gained
momentum in 2004 and the upturn accelerated through
2005. Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits,
a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish
people enjoy living standards topped by no other nation.
A major long-term issue will be the sharp decline in
the ratio of workers to retirees.
Exports: machinery and instruments,
meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals,
furniture, ships, windmills
Import: machinery and equipment,
raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals,
grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods
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Geography
Information
Location:
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North
Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes
two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn) Area: total: 43,094 sq km
land: 42,394 sq km
water: 700 sq km
note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea
and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula,
and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes
the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Background:
Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north
European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous
nation that is participating in the general political
and economic integration of Europe. It joined NATO in
1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the
country has opted out of certain elements of the European
Union's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic
and Monetary Union (EMU), European defense cooperation,
and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.
Independence Day: first organized
as a unified state in 10th century; in 1849 became a
constitutional monarchy
Capital City: Copenhagen Administrative divisions: metropolitan
Denmark - 14 counties (amter, singular - amt) and 2
boroughs* (amtskommuner, singular - amtskommune); Arhus,
Bornholm, Frederiksberg*, Frederiksborg, Fyn, Kobenhavn,
Kobenhavn (Copenhagen)*, Nordjylland, Ribe, Ringkobing,
Roskilde, Sonderjylland, Storstrom, Vejle, Vestsjalland,
Viborg note: as a result of an extensive 2005
local government reform, with 2006 being a transition
year, 275 municipalities will be merged to 99 by 1 January
2007, and the 14 counties will be reorganized into five
regions
