Population in Denmark: Danish growth only ten percent
The population growth in Denmark over the last decade is based almost exclusively on immigrants and descendants. The latest quarterly figures from Statistics Denmark show that Danes themselves account for only a tenth of the growth.
“More immigrants, fewer emigrants, fewer births and more doors”, was the short version of Norwegian population growth when we presented Norwegian quarterly figures on Thursday. The trend is not unlike the Danish one, where Danish women can not boast of any great fertility either. On the other hand, immigrants from the MENAPT countries can.
The short newspaper has taken a closer look at the figures presented by Statistics Denmark, and communicates the following:
Measured over a ten-year period from 1 April 2013 and up to and including 1 April this year, the number of inhabitants in Denmark has increased by 281,000. In pure numbers, this is an increase from 5.6 million on 1 April 2013 to a total of 5.9 million on 1 April this year.
But the Danes account for only a tenth of the growth, the newspaper writes.
Immigrants and descendants
A deep dive into the figures shows which population groups are behind the population growth. As expected, non-western immigrants give birth to the most children in Denmark, just as they also have the highest fertility in this country. It is not the immigration figures themselves that have the greatest impact on the statistics, it is the births that do. The total figures for the last decade show the following:
In round figures, this is an increase of 24,000 Danes against an increase of no less than 254,000 immigrants and descendants.
Divided by Western and non-Western immigrants and descendants, there is an increase of 106,000 Western and 148,000 non-Western.
As of 1 April this year, the share of the population amounted to a total of 860,000 inhabitants, sums up Den kort avis, and makes up a total of 15 per cent of the Danish population. Just over half a million of these are immigrants from non-western countries and their descendants, while a lower proportion are of western origin.
That is 541,000 people of non-Western origin and 319,000 of Western origin, the newspaper writes.
MENAPT births drive population growth
Since we are unable to reproduce ourselves and are obviously not able to increase the population on our own, we can look at who should “save us” by paying the pensions in the future, we wrote on Thursday about the Norwegian figures, and Danish must also think about future pensions.
The Danes’ contribution to population growth of 24,000 people is lower than the population growth that comes from Muslim communities with high crime, and where there are major problems with integration, writes Den kort avis.
And if you look more closely at the country background, there is little doubt that the population growth of recent years is largely driven by Muslim women in Danish maternity wards.
It turns out that 12 of 23 MENAP countries plus Turkey alone contributed a total of 38,000 thousand people to population growth.
That is 14,000 more than the Danes have contributed.
It happens primarily through births, the newspaper writes.
Women from the countries in question gave birth to no less than 31,000 children, and women from Turkey, Iraq and Somalia give birth to the vast majority.