Editing Demographics of Denmark (section)

==Ethnic and origin groups==
[[File:Percentage of Dane's of Danish background in 2021 regionally.svg|thumb|300x300px|People of Danish descent as a proportion of the population regionally and nationally in 2021]]
[[File:Population pyramid of Denmark over time by origin.gif|thumb|295x295px|Population pyramid of Denmark over time by origin]]
{{see also|Immigration to Denmark|Faroese people in Denmark|Greenlandic people in Denmark|Armenians in Denmark|Chinese people in Denmark|Greeks in Denmark|History of the Jews in Denmark|Arabs in Denmark|Iraqis in Denmark|Pakistanis in Denmark|Turks in Denmark|Romani people in Denmark|German minority in Denmark|Council for Ethnic Minorities}}
Non-indigenous [[Minority group|ethnic minorities]] include:
* [[Afghans]]
* [[Inuit]] (Greenlandic) from the territory of [[Greenland]]
* [[Turkish people|Turks]]
* [[Arab people|Arabs]] (i.e. [[Palestinians]], followed by [[Moroccan people|Moroccans]], [[Syrian people|Syrians]], [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]], [[Yemen]]is, [[Egyptians]], [[Iraqis]] and [[Jordan]]ians)
* [[Vietnamese people|Vietnamese]]
* [[Thai people|Thai]]
* [[Jews]]
* [[Han Chinese|Chinese]]
* [[Pakistani people|Pakistanis]]
* [[Demographics of Iran|Iranians]] (including [[Kurds]] and [[Lurs]])
* [[Somali people|Somalis]]
* [[Eritreans]] 
* [[Sudan]]ese
* [[Indian people|Indians]]
* [[Chileans]] (the most numerous of [[Latin Americans|Latin American]] nationalities)
* [[Bosniaks]]
* [[Polish people|Poles]]
* [[Albanians]]
* [[Bangladeshi people|Bangladeshis]]
* [[Romani people|Roma]]
* [[Filipinos]]

===Historic minorities===
Ethnic minorities in Denmark include a handful of groups:

* Approximately 15,000 people<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nordschleswig.dk/SEEEMS/417.asp|title=Willkommen bei der deutschen Minderheit in Dänemark|website=Nordschleswig.dk|access-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326122618/http://www.nordschleswig.dk/SEEEMS/417.asp|archive-date=26 March 2013|language=da}}</ref> in Denmark belong to a [[German minority in Denmark|German minority]] traditionally referred to as '''''tysksindet''''' meaning "German-minded" in Danish, and as '''''Nordschleswiger''''' in German. This minority of Germans hold [[Danish nationality law|Danish citizenship]] and self-identify as Germans. Many of them speak German or [[Low German]] as their [[First language|home language]]. There are also several thousand German citizens and other ethnic Germans residing in Denmark with no historical connection to this group. From 1864 until 15 June [[1920 Schleswig plebiscites|1920]] this group mainly lived in what would become [[Germany]] in 1871. This area had 163,600 inhabitants on its return to Denmark which can be seen on the crude migration change in the table which jumped from 1.6 in 1919 to 54.1 in 1920.
* An estimated 23,000 people<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnag.dk/get.file?ID=2783 |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719033254/http://www.dnag.dk/get.file?ID=2783 |archive-date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> in [[Denmark proper]] are ethnic [[Faroese people|Faroese]], while 19,000 [[Greenlandic people in Denmark|Greenlanders]] reside permanently in Denmark.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnag.dk/get.file?ID=2699 |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719033354/http://www.dnag.dk/get.file?ID=2699 |archive-date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> Many of these use the [[Faroese language|Faroese]] and [[Greenlandic language]]s, respectively, as their first language. All residents of the [[The unity of the Realm|Kingdom]] (viz. Denmark proper, the [[Faroe Islands]] and [[Greenland]]) hold [[Danish nationality law|Danish citizenship]], unless they inherit or otherwise receive a foreign citizenship.
* The [[History of the Jews in Denmark|Danish Jews]] number around 6,000 in 2020 according to the organisation [[Jewish Community in Denmark]], around 1,700 being card-carrying members of the organisation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mosaiske.dk/jodisk-historie-i-danmark/|title=Dansk jødisk historie|website=Mosaiske.dk|access-date=24 October 2020|language=da}}</ref>
* There are close to 10,000 [[Romani people in Denmark|Roma in Denmark]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://folkedrab.dk/artikler/romaer-til-danmark|title=Romaer til Danmark |website=Folkedrab.dk|date=24 September 2015 |access-date=24 October 2020|language=da}}</ref>

===Modern minorities===
{{quote box
| quote = A person has Danish origin if he or she has at least one parent who is both a Danish citizen and born in Denmark. Neither immigrants nor descendants have one parent who is both a Danish citizen and born in Denmark. The difference between immigrants and descendants is that immigrants were born abroad, while descendants were born in Denmark.

For [[asylum seeker]]s and other persons applying for a residence permit in Denmark, there is no unambiguous connection between the time of a granted residence permit and immigration for the person who has been granted the residence permit. The number of residence permits granted in a quarter cannot be interpreted as the quarter's immigration. Citizens of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden do not need a residence permit to live, work or study in Denmark.
| source = Statistics Denmark [https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/borgere/befolkning/indvandrere-og-efterkommere]
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}}[[File:Population pyramid of Denmark by origin group in 2023.svg|thumb|Population pyramid of Denmark by origin group in 2023|250x250px]]
[[File:Danish and foreign born population pyramid in 2023.svg|thumb|250x250px|Danish and foreign born population pyramid in 2023]]
In the modern minorities, [[Statistics Denmark]] counts first-generation immigrants, second-generation (Descendants in Danish statistics classification) and third-generation (Children of descendants in Danish classification). Children of descendants can be either of "Danish origin" (if both of their parents were born in Denmark with Danish citizenship) and of "foreign origin" (if one of their parents is a second-generation immigrant and another first-generation). Therefore, this table included all people of the respective background, people who are classified as of "foreign background" and third-generation immigrants, who classified as of "Danish origin".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2017-06-06 |title=Documentation of statistics: Immigrants and Descendants – Statistics Denmark |url=https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/documentationofstatistics/immigrants-and-descendants |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606230509/https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/documentationofstatistics/immigrants-and-descendants |archive-date=2017-06-06 |access-date=2021-12-21}}</ref> Statistics Denmark denotes an immigrant's group based on their country of birth, it does this usually off of the immigrant or descendents parents, if only one such parent is known, then the group is determined by that or if no parents are known then it is assumed if the person is an immigrant that their country of origin is their country of birth.<ref name=":1" />

[[Statistics Denmark]] also has specific classification bands which it uses to separate different immigrant groups. As an example, for 'Western' immigrants and 'Non-western', the classification band is as follows:

* Western countries: All 28 EU countries and [[Andorra]], [[Iceland]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Monaco]], [[Norway]], [[San Marino]], [[Switzerland]], [[Vatican State]], [[Canada]], [[USA]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].
* Non-western countries; All other countries.
According to 2021 figures from Statistics Denmark, 86%<ref name="statbank.dk">[http://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/Graphics/MakeGraph.asp?gr_type=1&gr_width=600&gr_height=600&gr_fontsize=11&menu=y&PLanguage=1&pxfile=201282423219110521660FOLK2.px&wonload=600&honload=600&rotate=] {{dead link|date=August 2017}}</ref><ref name="dst.dk">{{cite web |title=Immigrants and Their Descendants |url=http://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/befolkning-og-valg/indvandrere-og-efterkommere/indvandrere-og-efterkommere |access-date=11 September 2017 |website=Dst.dk}}</ref>  of Denmark's population of over 5,840,045 was of Danish descent.<ref>[http://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/Graphics/MakeGraph.asp?gr_type=5&gr_width=600&gr_height=600&gr_fontsize=11&menu=y&PLanguage=1&pxfile=201282423219110521660FOLK2.px&wonload=600&honload=600&rotate=] {{dead link|date=August 2017}}</ref><ref name="statbank.dk" />  The remaining 14% were of a foreign background, defined as immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants. With the same definition, the most common countries of origin were [[Demographics of Turkey|Turkey]], [[Polish people|Poland]], [[Germans|Germany]], [[Iraqis|Iraq]], [[Romanians|Romania]], [[Syrians|Syria]], [[Somalis|Somalia]], [[Demographics of Iran|Iran]], [[Demographics of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]], and [[Yugoslavs|Yugoslavia]] and its successor states.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}
More than 817,438 individuals (14%)<ref name="statbank.dk" /><ref name="dst.dk" /> are migrants and their descendants (199,668 second generation migrants born in Denmark<ref name="dst.dk" />).

Of these 817,438<ref name="statbank.dk" /> immigrants and their descendants:
* 294,798 (36.1%)<ref name="dst.dk" /> have a [[Western World|Western background]] ([[Norwegians|Norway]], [[Germans|Germany]], [[Bosnians|Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[British people|UK]], [[Polish people|Poland]], [[Romanians|Romania]] and [[Icelanders|Iceland]]; definition: EU countries, non-EU [[Nordic countries]], Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican State, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand).
* 522,640 (63.9%)<ref name="dst.dk" /> have a non-Western background ([[Turkish people|Turkey]], [[Iraqi people|Iraq]], [[Iranian peoples|Iran]], [[Pakistani people|Pakistan]], [[Thai people|Thailand]] and [[Somali people|Somalia]]; all other countries).

There were 121,183 immigrants in 2022, of these 31,381 were Ukrainian citizens, people with Ukrainian citizenship accounted for 26 percent of all immigration.<ref name="dst.dk1"/> The total population of Denmark increased in 2022 by 59,234 people, and the net immigration of Ukrainian people amounted to 45 percent of this population growth.<ref name="dst.dk1"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|-
! Rank
! Country of origin<ref>Immigrants by country of birth, descendants and children of descendants (those, who are classified of Danish origin)</ref>
! Population (2008)
! Population (2021)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/default.asp?w=1600|work=Statistics Denmark|title=Immigrants and Descendants, 1 January 2020|language=en}}</ref>
! Population (2023)
! Population (2024)
! Population (2025)
|-
| 1.
| {{flag|Turkey}}
| 59,960
| 75,072
| 77,845
| 79,373
| 80,937
|-
| 2.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Poland}}
| 21,118
| 49,369
| 55,122
| 57,070
| 57,215
|-
| 3.
| {{flag|Ukraine}}
| 5,105
| 15,595
| 42,482
| 44,825
| 49,854
|-
| 4.
| {{flag|Syria}}
| 3,367
| 44,326
| 45,000
| 45,641
| 46,634
|-
| 5.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Romania}}
| 3,681
| 34,997
| 44,221
| 46,036
| 46,132
|-
| 6.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Germany}}
| 28,412
| 35,141
| 39,528
| 41,516
| 43,410
|-
| 7.
| {{flag|Iraq}}
| 28,417
| 34,217
| 35,101
| 35,476
| 35,975
|-
| 8.
| {{flag|Pakistan}}
| 21,217
| 31,175
| 32,246
| 33,050
| 34,181
|-
| 9.
| {{flag|Lebanon}}
| 23,343
| 30,435
| 31,700
| 32,269
| 33,014
|-
| 10.
| {{flag|Iran}}
| 14,773
| 22,408
| 24,364
| 26,276
| 28,491
|-
| 11.
| {{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
| 21,861
| 23,449
| 23,625
| 23,659
| 23,732
|-
| 12.
| {{flag|India}}
| 5,666
| 15,595
| 19,296
| 21,268
| 22,815
|-
| 13.
| {{flag|Afghanistan}}
| 11,880
| 19,957
| 21,380
| 21,784
| 22,172
|-
| 14.
| {{flag|Somalia}}
| 16,561
| 21,338
| 21,486
| 21,653
| 21,849
|-
| 15.
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 12,593
| 17,651
| 18,190
| 18,442
| 18,605
|-
| 16.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Sweden}}
| 14,789
| 17,095
| 17,726
| 17,999
| 18,303
|-
| 17.
| {{flag|Vietnam}}
| 13,459
| 16,307
| 16,906
| 17,448
| 18,272
|-
| 18.
| {{flag|Norway}}
| 15,747
| 17,481
| 17,691
| 17,735
| 17,786
|-
| 19.
| {{flag|China}}
| 8,574
| 14,841
| 15,836
| 16,549
| 17,443
|-
| 20.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Lithuania}}
| 3,646
| 15,231
| 16,439
| 16,357
| 16,192
|-
| 21.
| former {{flag|Yugoslavia}}{{refn|group=fn|Former Yugoslavia enumerates otherwise unspecified countries that made-up [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia]], i.e. the countries of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Croatia]], [[Kosovo]], [[Montenegro]], [[North Macedonia]], [[Serbia]] and [[Slovenia]].}}
| 18,151
| 15,903
| 15,356
| 15,016
| 14,257
|-
| 22.
| {{flag|Morocco}}
| 9,808
| 13,170
| 13,708
| 13,937
| 14,138
|-
| 23.
| {{flag|Thailand}}
| 8,280
| 13,166
| 13,693
| 14,029
| 14,122
|-
| 24.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Bulgaria}}
| 1,194
| -
| 13,503
| 13,840
| 14,007
|-
| 25.
| {{flag|Sri Lanka}}
| 10,494
| –
| 12,692
| 12,996
| 13,734
|-
| 26.
| {{flag|Philippines}}
| 7,199
| –
| 12,760
| 13,098
| 13,577
|-
| 27.
| {{flagicon|EU}}{{flag|Italy}}
| 3,994
| –
| 11,684
| 12,313
| 13,135
|-
| 28.
| {{flag|USA}}
| 7,151
| –
| 10,786
| 11,293
| 11,797
|-
| 29.
| {{flag|Russia}}
| 4,389
| –
| 9,517
| 9,946
| 10,323
|-
| 30.
| {{flag|Iceland}}
| 8,421
| –
| 9,513
| 9,765
| 10,082
|}

{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="3" |Population groups
! colspan="12" |Year
|-
! colspan="2" |1981<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|title=Population 1. January by sex, age, ancestry, country of origin and citizenship – StatBank Denmark – data and statistics|url=https://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?MainTable=FOLK2&PLanguage=1&PXSId=0&wsid=cftree|access-date=2025-04-20|website=www.statbank.dk}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |1991<ref name=":11"/>
! colspan="2" |2001<ref name=":11"/>
! colspan="2" |2011<ref name=":11"/>
! colspan="2" |2021<ref name=":11"/>
! colspan="2" |2025<ref name=":11"/>
|-
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
!Number
!%
|-
!{{Flagicon|Denmark}} Danish descent
!4,968,337
!96.96%
!4,920,267
!95.6%
!4,953,265
!92.59%
!4,998,111
!89.88%
!5,022,607
!86%
!5,015,554
!83.7%
|-
!Immigrants
!136,229
!2.65%
!189,649
!3.68%
!308,674
!5.77%
!428,904
!7.71%
!617,770
!10.57%
!752,907
!12.6%
|-
|{{Flagicon|European Union}} EU-27
|59,808
|1.16%
|61,279
|1.19%
|74,565
|1.39%
|124,092
|2.23%
|205,731
|3.52%
|248,930
|
|-
|Europe outside EU-27
|45,148
|0.88%
|55,797
|1.08%
|98,042
|1.83%
|116,300
|2.09%
|131,189
|2.24%
|172,663
|
|-
|Africa
|5,033
|–
|9,710
|0.18%
|28,190
|0.52%
|33,135
|0.59%
|46,376
|0.79%
|51,502
|
|-
|North America
|6,312
|–
|6,525
|–
|7,008
|–
|9,068
|0.16%
|10,890
|0.18%
|13,490
|
|-
|South and Central America
|2,987
|–
|4,263
|–
|6,248
|–
|9,826
|0.17%
|17,430
|0.29%
|24,394
|
|-
|Asia
|16,200
|0.31%
|50,556
|0.98%
|91,731
|1.71%
|133,261
|2.39%
|202,625
|3.46%
|238,006
|
|-
|Oceania
|571
|–
|811
|–
|1,314
|–
|2,277
|–
|2,905
|–
|3,504
|-
|-
|Stateless
|9
|–
|373
|–
|367
|–
|480
|–
|352
|–
|233
|-
|-
|Unknown
|170
|–
|335
|–
|1,209
|–
|465
|–
|272
|–
|185
|-
|-
!Descendants
!19,423
!0.37%
!36,553
!0.71%
!87,273
!1.63%
!133,613
!2.40%
!199,668
!3.41%
!224,273
!3.7%
|-
|{{Flagicon|European Union}} EU-27
|6,763
|0.13%
|6,949
|0.13%
|9,679
|0.18%
|13,097
|0.23%
|28,273
|0.48%
|
|
|-
|Europe outside EU-27
|6,831
|0.13%
|15,302
|0.29%
|32,237
|0.60%
|46,291
|0.83%
|59,309
|1.01%
|
|
|-
|Africa
|895
|–
|2,414
|–
|10,258
|0.19%
|16,608
|0.29%
|25,188
|0.43%
|
|
|-
|North America
|985
|–
|926
|–
|1,004
|–
|929
|–
|1,029
|–
|
|
|-
|South and Central America
|275
|–
|363
|–
|605
|–
|902
|–
|1,571
|–
|
|
|-
|Asia
|3,535
|–
|10,420
|0.20%
|33,045
|0.61%
|55,260
|0.99%
|83,815
|1.43%
|
|
|-
|Oceania
|93
|–
|88
|–
|129
|–
|149
|–
|196
|–
|
|
|-
|Stateless
|29
|–
|56
|–
|109
|–
|237
|–
|154
|–
|
|
|-
|Unknown
|17
|–
|35
|–
|207
|–
|140
|–
|133
|–
|
|
|-
!Total
!5,123,989
!100%
!5,146,469
!100%
!5,349,212
!100%
!5,560,628
!100%
!5,840,045
!100%
!5,992,734
!100%
|}
<gallery mode="packed" caption="Population pyramids of selected origin groups in 2023">
File:Person of Danish origin in 2023 population pyramid.svg|Persons of Danish origin
File:Western immigrant 2023 in Denmark population pyramid.svg|Western immigrant
File:Non-Western immigrant population pyramid in 2023 in Denmark.svg|Non-Western immigrant
File:Western descendant population pyramid in 2023 in Denmark.svg|Western descendant
File:Non-Western descendant population pyramid in 2023 in Denmark.svg|Non-Western descendant
</gallery>