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Europe > Denmark > Labor

DANISH LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [69th of 77]
Agricultural workers > Male 5% [66th of 78]
Compensation of employees > % of expense 13.45 % Time series [72nd of 97]
Compensation of employees > current LCU 68462930000 Time series
Days off work 51 days [11th of 20]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 15-19 57.99 [28th of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 20-24 81.58 [22nd of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 25-29 88.99 [35th of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 30-34 93.59 [21st of 165]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 35-39 93.62 [22nd of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 40-44 92.81 [27th of 167]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 45-49 91.11 [28th of 163]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 50-54 85.08 [34th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 55-59 72.24 [56th of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 60-64 34.21 [121st of 166]
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 65 plus 5.49 [147th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 15-19 60.08 [36th of 164]
Economic activity > Men aged 25-29 92.15 [147th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 30-34 94.66 [156th of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 35-39 95.13 [154th of 164]
Economic activity > Men aged 45-49 94.56 [121st of 167]
Economic activity > Men aged 50-54 89.97 [123rd of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 55-59 81.62 [111st of 167]
Economic activity > Men aged 60-64 43.76 [132nd of 165]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 9.41 [140th of 162]
Economic activity > Women aged 15-19 55.8 [22nd of 164]
Economic activity > Women aged 20-24 78.98 [24th of 166]
Economic activity > Women aged 25-29 85.62 [24th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 30-34 92.46 [12th of 167]
Economic activity > Women aged 35-39 92.02 [16th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 40-44 90.55 [20th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 45-49 87.61 [25th of 161]
Economic activity > Women aged 50-54 80.12 [28th of 166]
Economic activity > Women aged 55-59 62.82 [36th of 167]
Economic activity > Women aged 60-64 25.09 [86th of 165]
Economic activity > Women aged 65 plus 2.69 [143rd of 167]
Employees, agriculture, female > % of female employment 1.6 % Time series [45th of 86]
Employees, agriculture, male > % of male employment 4.1 % Time series [45th of 86]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 12.4 % Time series [35th of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 33.7 % Time series [25th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 85.5 % Time series [17th of 86]
Employees, services, male > % of male employment 61.5 % Time series [17th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 2.9 % Time series [48th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 23.8 % Time series [30th of 94]
Employment in services > % of total employment 72.7 % Time series [17th of 94]
employment rate > Source / date of > information 2003 OECD .
Employment rate of highly educated women 88.7% [1st of 18]
Employment rate of lesser educated women 68.2% [3rd of 18]
Female decision makers 23% [54th of 67]
Female doctors 27% [16th of 18]
Female economic activity 61.7% [45th of 156]
Female economic activity growth 0% [114th of 156]
Female professionals 50% [36th of 68]
Firing cost > weeks of wages 10 weeks of wages Time series [147th of 164]
force participation rate, female > % of female population ages 15-64 74.22 % Time series [21st of 184]
force participation rate, male > % of male population ages 15-64 82.63 % Time series [89th of 184]
force participation rate, total > % of total population ages 15-64 78.48 % Time series [26th of 184]
force with primary education > % of total 22.6 % Time series [19th of 48]
force with secondary education > % of total 51.6 % Time series [9th of 51]
force with tertiary education > % of total 24.8 % Time series [18th of 52]
force, female > % of total labor force 46.76 % Time series [32nd of 184]
force, total 2,840,531 Time series [95th of 184]
    force, total (per capita) 0.524 per capita Time series [20th of 184]
Foreign labor force 3.4 [16th of 23]
Industrial workers > Female 15% [35th of 79]
Industrial workers > Male 37% [21st of 79]
Labor force 2,860,000 Time series [78th of 132]
    Labor force (per capita) 523,031.682 per million people Time series [31st of 131]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 4%, industry 17%, services 79%
Labor force > By occupation > Agriculture 3% Time series [26th of 32]
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 21% Time series [11th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 76% Time series [6th of 29]
Long term unemployment 0.9% [21st of 27]
Long term unemployment > Share 22.2% [21st of 28]
Long-term unemployment > % of total unemployment 19.9 % Time series [22nd of 48]
Long-term unemployment, female > % of female unemployment 17.9 % Time series [20th of 46]
Long-term unemployment, male > % of male unemployment 21.8 % Time series [21st of 46]
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Date November 13, 1997
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 > Ratifications > Minimum age 15 [42nd of 146]
Parental leave > Paid maternity leave 18 weeks
Parental leave > Paid paternity leave
14 days paid paternity leave
Regulation 25 [121st of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 25 [122nd of 123]
Regulation > Firing 17 [109th of 123]
Regulation > Hiring 33 [117th of 123]
Researchers in labor force 61 per 10000 people [8th of 18]
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention > Ratifications > Date August 15, 1955
Rigidity of employment index 17 Time series [142nd of 166]
Service workers > Female 83% [25th of 79]
Service workers > Male 58% [26th of 79]
Share of women employed in the nonagricultural sector > % of total nonagricultural employment 48.8 % Time series [28th of 174]
Strikes 296 [1st of 27]
Technicians in R&D > per million people 2,712.56 per million people Time series [2nd of 49]
Temporary employment share 10.2% [14th of 26]
Total work time > Females 449 minutes [11th of 29]
Total work time > Females over males 98% [29th of 29]
Total work time > Males 458 minutes [7th of 29]
Trade union membership 76% [3rd of 18]
Unemployment 4.8% [13th of 18]
Unemployment and education > Tertiary 2.6% [11th of 18]
Unemployment and education > Upper secondary 3.9% [11th of 18]
Unemployment benefit as % of GDP 3.4 % of GDP [1st of 18]
Unemployment benefit replacement 67 [1st of 20]
Unemployment gender ratio 123% [13th of 30]
Unemployment rate 2.8% Time series [83rd of 107]
Unemployment with secondary education, female > % of female unemployment 48.2 % Time series [22nd of 71]
Unemployment with secondary education, male > % of male unemployment 44.8 % Time series [21st of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education > % of total unemployment 25.5 % Time series [7th of 77]
Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment 26.5 % Time series [8th of 71]
Unemployment with tertiary education, male > % of male unemployment 24.7 % Time series [6th of 71]
Unemployment, female > % of female labor force 5.4 % Time series [60th of 95]
Unemployment, male > % of male labor force 5 % Time series [58th of 95]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 5.2 % Time series [58th of 101]
Unemployment, youth female > % of female labor force ages 15-24 8.8 % Time series [51st of 77]
Unemployment, youth male > % of male labor force ages 15-24 8.5 % Time series [52nd of 77]
Unemployment, youth total > % of total labor force ages 15-24 8.6 % Time series [51st of 77]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
6 weeks, of which 5 days can be "sold" back to the employer - omsorgsdage (carer’s leave).
Work time > Market-oriented 68% [2nd of 29]
Work Time > More than 40 hours 22.1% [15th of 18]
Work time > Non-market-oriented 32% [29th of 29]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 1,226,200,000 $ Time series [25th of 149]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per $ GDP) 4.74 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [65th of 166]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ (per capita) 226.404 $ per 1,000 people Time series [18th of 167]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ 1,075,000,000 $ Time series [53rd of 156]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per $ GDP) 4.155 $ per $1,000 of GDP Time series [115th of 165]
    Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received > US$ (per capita) 198.487 $ per capita Time series [30th of 167]
Working mothers 74 [2nd of 23]
Working time to buy a car 1,206 hours [10th of 16]
Working time to buy a refrigerator 29 hours [11th of 15]
Working time to buy a television set 13 hours [15th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 78 minutes [5th of 16]
Working time to buy bread 5 minutes [15th of 16]
Working time to buy chicken 11 minutes [15th of 16]
Working time to buy fish 23 minutes [15th of 15]
Working time to buy milk 2 minutes [16th of 16]
Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In the EU > Fatalities 27 [14th of 15]
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities 1.8 per 100,000 employees [13th of 15]
Youth unemployment 6.7% [23rd of 30]

SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; OECD; Economic activity rate and economically active population, by sex, thirteen age groups, 1950-2010 (ILO estimates and projections) are data from the International Labour Union (ILO). Source details: ILO, Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, fourth edition, diskette database (Geneva, 1997). The latest set of estimates and projections covering the period 1950-2010 (4th edition) was released by ILO in December 1996. These data are updated every five-ten years by ILO and a new set of these data is in preparation; Wikipedia: List of countries by employment rate ; OECD Employment Outlook 2002, p.74; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; OECD Health Data 2002 (CD ROM) available year for Australia, Japan = 1998; Denmark = 1995; 1980 figures for Canada and France are interpolated; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; OECD; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; Wikipedia: Minimum Age Convention, 1973 ; Wikipedia: Parental leave ; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference; OECD; Wikipedia: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 ; Harvey, Andrew S. 1995 ?Market and Non-Market Productive Activity in Less Developed and Developing Countries: Lessons from Time Use.? Background Paper for Human Development Report 1995. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, Goldshmidt-Clermont, Luisella, and Elisabetta Pagnossin Aligisakis. 1995. ?Measures of Unrecorded Economic Activities in Fourteen Countries.? Background paper for Human Development Report; Figures are from the OECD. The figures are from EIRO for France, Ireland and Italy; OECD Historical Statistics; OECD, Employment Outlook 2002 ; Annex to GECD Society at a Glance 2002; World Health Organization; calculated on the basis of data on male and female unemployment rates from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook 2001. Paris; Wikipedia: Vacation ; ILO, Key Indicators; International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002); Wikipedia: Workplace safety ;

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