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Danish people
danskere
Total population
c. 7 million
Regions with significant populations
 Denmark 4,996,980[1]
 United States1,430,897[2]
 Canada200,035[3]
 Brazil140,000
 Norway52,510[4]
 Australia50,413[5]
 Germany50,000[6]
 Sweden42,602[7]
 Argentina13,000[8]
 United Kingdom18,493 (Danish born only)[9]
 Spain8,944[10]
 France7,000[11]
 Switzerland4.251[12]
 New Zealand3,507[13]
 Faroe Islands2,956
 Iceland2,802[14]
 Ireland809[15]
 Austria806[16]
 Japan500[17]
 Lebanon400[18]
 South Africa4,000
 Lesotho4,200
 Namibia3,900
Languages
Danish
Related languages include Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic, and to a lesser extent, all Germanic languages.
Religion
Predominantly Lutheran;
small minorities of other faiths; secular.
Today's Denmark and the former Danish provinces Southern Schleswig, Skåne, Halland and Blekinge.

Danish people or Danes are the nation and ethnic group that is born in Denmark, and who speak Danish. There is also a Danish minority in Southern Schleswig.

The first mention of Danes within the Danish territory is on the Jelling Rune Stone which mentions how Harald Bluetooth converted the Danes to Christianity in the 10th century.[19] Denmark has been continuously inhabited since this period and although much cultural and ethnic influence and immigration from all over the world has entered Denmark since then, Danes tend to see themselves as ethnic descendents of the early Danes mentioned in the sources.

Demography

According to the Danish statistics institute, approximately five million people of Danish origin live in Denmark today. In this context "Danish origin" is defined as being born to parents who are Danish citizens, and the number is arrived at by subtracting from the total population (5,564,249) those who are born abroad to non-citizens who are themselves born abroad (called immigrants), and those who are born in Denmark to parents who are either immigrants or who have foreign citizenship.[1]

Danish citizenship is granted to anyone who has one parent of Danish citizenship, whether the child is born in or outside of Denmark. Citizens of Greenland and the Faroe islands are considered Danish citizens for all purposes. Those who do not achieve Danish citizenship by birth (or by Adoption) can only receive Danish citizenship through decree of law. Danish citizenship is automatically lost if one applies for foreign citizenship or when a 22 year old child of Danish citizens has never lived in Denmark and has not formally applied for Danish citizenship.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Danmarks Statistik (pdf, written in English) reports that metropolitan Denmark, per 1 April 2011, has 4.996.980 inhabitants of Danish origin.
  2. ↑ The 2000 American census reports that the United States, in the 2000 census, has 1,430,897 inhabitants of Danish ancestry.
  3. ↑ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2 April 2008). "Statistics Canada: Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census". www12.statcan.ca. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  4. ↑ Statistics Norway. "Persons with immigrant background by immigration category, country background and sex. 1 January 2009 (Immigrants and Norwegian-norn to immigrant parents + Other immigrant background)". Archived from the original on 2011-11-12. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
  5. ↑ Statistics, c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of. "Redirect to Census data page". www.abs.gov.au.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ National minorities Archived 2008-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
  7. ↑ Statistics Sweden
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-16. Retrieved 2012-07-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ "BBC NEWS - UK - Born Abroad - Denmark". news.bbc.co.uk.
  10. ↑ "Spanish National Statistics Institute" (PDF).
  11. ↑ http://www.udvandrerne.dk/JLKM/Udvandre.nsf/Uniq/688507Reference Archived 2016-03-21 at the Wayback Machine Danes in France
  12. ↑ "Danes in foreign countries". Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  13. ↑ "Statistics New Zealand". Archived from the original on 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  14. ↑ "Population by country of birth 1981-2006 by country and year: Denmark, 2006". Statistics Iceland (English version). 31 December 2006. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
  15. ↑ "Server Error 404 - CSO - Central Statistics Office". www.cso.ie.
  16. ↑ Ties between Austria and Denmark Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Laut den letzten Zählungen sind 806 Dänen in Österreich (2001)
  17. ↑ "Danish immigrants in Tokyo". Archived from the original on 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  18. ↑ "History of Denmark and Lebanon". Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  19. ↑ "daner - Gyldendal - Den Store Danske". denstoredanske.dk.
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