Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Denmark - Daniel Escobar

Country Name: Denmark
Consolidation: 18th century
Population: 5,511,451 (108th)
Density: 127.9/km2
Primary Language: Danish
Ethnic Make-up: 91.1% Danish, 8.9% (Germans, Greeks, Bosnian, Russian, Turks, Arabs)
Political System: Parliamentary Democracy and Constitucional Monarchy
Year Entered the European Union: 1 January 1973 (7th)
Representative of the European Union (include party)
Type of Economy: Free market capitalist
Currency: Danish Krone (DKK)
Current Exchange rate for American Currency: 5.4480 KRONE = 1dll
GDP: Total: $312.046 billion (27th) per capita: $67,386 (IMF) (6th)
Percentage of Trade within the European Union
Unemployment Rate: 2.00%
Chief Exports: The chief exports of Denmark in order of quantities are butter, pork, eggs, beef, horses, hides, and skins.
Key Imports: telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus, meat and meat preparations, dairy products and birds eggs, medicinal and pharmaceutical products.
Major Religions: Lutheran state church, the Danish Natonal Church which is established by the constitution.
Surrounding Countries: bordered to the south by Germany, is south wet of Sweden and south of Norway and borders both the Baltic and the North Sex.
Literacy Rate: 99.0
One Interesting Fact: International studies show that Denmark is the happiest country in the world. The 2008 Global Peace Index survey ranks Denmark as the second most peaceful country in the world, after Iceland. Denmark was also ranked as the least corrupt country in the world in the 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index. Copenhagen, was ranked the most livable city in the world by Monocle magazine

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