What is the total population of Denmark 202 1?

89.6% of the population is Danish, and the remaining 65,438+00.4% are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. The main sources of immigrants are Asian countries, such as Turkey, Iraq and Pakistan. There are African countries, such as Somalia; There are also Balkan countries in Southeast Europe, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Among the immigrants, 34% (about 200,000 people) have a western background, and 66% (about 390,000 people) have no western background. The median age of Danish population is 39.8 years old, and the ratio of male to female is 0.98: 1. /kloc-The literacy rate of Danes over 0/5 years old is 98.2%. The birth rate is 65438+ 0.74 children per woman. Despite the low birth rate, the annual population growth rate in Denmark is still 0.33%.

Inuit are the indigenous people of Greenland, traditionally living in Greenland, northern Canada and Alaska in the Arctic. From18th century to1970s, the Danish government has been trying to assimilate the Inuit people in Greenland and encourage them to accept the mainstream language, culture and religion.

language

Danish is actually Danish? Mandarin. ? Faroese and Greenland are the official languages of Faroe Islands and Greenland respectively. ? German is a recognized minority language in former South jutland (now part of South Denmark) and was a part of the German Empire before the Treaty of Versailles.

Danish, Faroese and Icelandic belong to the North Germanic (Nordic) branch of Indo-European family, Norwegian and Swedish. The mutual understanding between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish is limited. Danish is a far cry from German, which is a West Germanic language. Greenland or "Kalaallisut" belongs to Eskimo-Aleutian language; It is closely related to Inuit in Canada, such as Inuit, and has nothing to do with Danish.

The vast majority (86%) of Danes speak English as a second language, and their English level is usually very high. German is the second largest foreign language, and 47% people report their conversational level. In 2007, there were 25,900 Danish people whose mother tongue was German (mainly in South jutland).