Human development index (HDI), an index based on life expectancy, education and GDP (max. 1)
0.900
World rank in HDI
10
Key economic sectors
Services (77); industry (21.8); agriculture (1.2) (2010)
Leading companies
Novo Nordisk A/S, a health care company (US$113·0bn.); A. P. Møller-Mærsk, a shipping company (US$45·3bn.); and Danske Bank (US$26·6bn.)
Unemployment in 2011
7.6%
Main religious denominations (% of population)
Evangelical-Lutheran (to which 80.9% of the population belonged in 2010)
Political system
A constitutional monarchy A single-chamber assembly, the Folketing, is elected every four years.
Electoral system
Proportional representation (with constituency members being supplemented by those from a national list until proportionality has been achieved)
Current (March 2010) leaders
Prime Minister: Lars Løkke Rasmussen (b.1964), since June 2015
Previous leaders:
Prime Ministers: Helle Thorning-Schmidt (2011-2015); Lars Løkke Rasmussen (2009-2011); Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2001-2009);
Joined the EU/EC
1973
Commissioner from country in Barroso II College of Commissioners, and portfolio
Connie Hedegaard (Climate Action)
Number of MEPs
13
Turnout in 2014 EP elections (%)
56.3 (59.5 in 2009)
Member of eurozone
No
Except where a specific reference is inserted, the sources for this profile are either Neill Nugent’s book itself, or Barry Turner (ed.), The Statesman’s Yearbook Online, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. If your library subscribes, you can gain access at http://www.statesmansyearbook.com
