Population of Denmark, by gender 1769 - 2020

Denmark's population has been growing at a rather steady rate for the past 250 years, and the number of women has always exceeded the number of men. At the beginning of this period, the numbers of men and women were fairly similar, however at the turn of the 20th century the gap begins to widen and the number of women exceeds men by almost 100 thousand in the 1910s. The numbers get closer again in the 1940s, which is in contrast to many other European countries during this time, where the death rate among men was much higher than women as a result of the Second World War. These numbers stay similar until the 1980s, when both populations stop growing on their previous trajectory, and the population actually decreases. Since the 1990s Denmark's population has been growing again, reaching approximately 2.9 million for males and females each, although there are roughly 35,000 more women than men in Denmark in 2020.