Infrastructure — Denmark
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Denmark: 80
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Transportation
- Airports - total
80
- Airports with Paved Runways
28
- Railways
1,657 Miles 2,667 Kilometers
- Roadways- total
45,937 Miles 73,929 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
45,360 Miles 73,000 Kilometers
- Waterways
249 Miles 400 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Aabenraa, Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Frederikshavn, Hirtshals, Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle
Communications
- Telephones
2,062,000
- Cell Phones
6,243,000
- Internet Users
3,500,000
- Internet Country Code
.dk
- Internet Hosts
4,145,000
- Broadcast Media
- strong public-sector TV presence with state-owned Danmarks Radio (DR) operating 4 channels and publicly owned TV2 operating roughly a half dozen channels
- broadcasts of privately owned stations are available via satellite and cable feed
- DR operates 4 nationwide FM radio stations, 15 digital audio broadcasting stations, and about 15 web-based radio stations
- approximately 250 commercial and community radio stations
- Telephone System
- excellent telephone and telegraph services domestic: buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network,
- multiple cellular mobile communications systems international: country code - 45; a series of fiber-optic submarine cables link Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and UK; satellite earth stations - 18 (6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East)); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for worldwide Inmarsat access
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
34,300,000,000
- Electricity Exports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
11,360,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
12,820,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
36,400,000,000
- Natural Gas Consumption - Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
4,994,000,000
- Natural Gas Exports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
2,983,000,000
- Natural Gas Imports- Cubic Meters (cu m)
254,000,000
- Natural Gas Production- Cubic Meters (cu m)
6,412,000,000
- Natural Gas Reserves- Cubic Meters (cu m)
42,980,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
160,200
- Oil Exports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
155,200
- Oil Imports- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
55,010
- Oil Production- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
376,900
- Oil Reserves- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
805,000,000