Denmark’s coastline is 16 times as long as the Netherlands’

Denmark: 7,314 km (2026 edition) · Netherlands: 451 km (2026 edition)

The Netherlands’ highest peak towers 691 m above Denmark’s

Denmark: 171 m (2026 edition) · Netherlands: 862 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 65% of Denmark, versus 53% of the Netherlands

Denmark: 65.1% (2024) · Netherlands: 53.4% (2024)

The Netherlands has 3 times as many people as Denmark

Denmark: 6.01 million (2025) · Netherlands: 18.1 million (2025)

The Netherlands is 3.6 times as densely populated as Denmark

Denmark: 150 per km² (2025) · Netherlands: 537 per km² (2025)

The Netherlands and Denmark are practically level

Denmark: 41.2 years (2023) · Netherlands: 41.4 years (2023)

Denmark and the Netherlands are practically level

Denmark: 1.47 children per woman (2024) · Netherlands: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

Denmark and the Netherlands are practically level

Denmark: 21.1% (2025) · Netherlands: 20.9% (2025)

Denmark and the Netherlands are nearly identical here

Denmark: 15.8 per 1,000 (2025) · Netherlands: 15.7 per 1,000 (2025)

Denmark has produced 20.0 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Netherlands 11.1

Denmark: 20 (2026) · Netherlands: 11.1 (2026)

Denmark and the Netherlands are practically level

Denmark: 1 (2026) · Netherlands: 1 (2026)

The Netherlands’ economy is 2.9 times the size of Denmark’s

Denmark: $463 billion (2025) · Netherlands: $1.33 trillion (2025)

The Netherlands produces 5% more per person than Denmark

Denmark: Int$83,218 (2025) · Netherlands: Int$87,320 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Denmark than in the Netherlands (Gini 4.2 points higher)

Denmark: 29.9 (2023) · Netherlands: 25.7 (2021)

Denmark and the Netherlands are practically level

Denmark: 0.4% (2023) · Netherlands: 0.1% (2021)

Unemployment is 5.5% in Denmark, versus 3.9% in the Netherlands

Denmark: 5.5% (2025) · Netherlands: 3.9% (2025)

Denmark spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, the Netherlands 2.2%

Denmark: 3.3% (2025) · Netherlands: 2.2% (2025)

Denmark’s central government collects 33% of GDP in tax, the Netherlands’ 25%

Denmark: 33.4% (2024) · Netherlands: 25.3% (2024)

Denmark’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× the Netherlands’

Denmark: 92% (2025) · Netherlands: 84% (2025)

The Netherlands spends 1% more on health per person than Denmark

Denmark: $6,745 (2024) · Netherlands: $6,845 (2024)

A baby in Denmark is 3% more likely to die before turning one than in the Netherlands

Denmark: 3.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Netherlands: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Denmark has 16% more doctors per person than the Netherlands

Denmark: 4.5 per 1,000 (2021) · Netherlands: 3.9 per 1,000 (2022)

Denmark and the Netherlands are nearly identical here

Denmark: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Netherlands: 2.4 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in the Netherlands is 12% higher than in Denmark

Denmark: 8.6 per 100k (2023) · Netherlands: 9.6 per 100k (2023)

17% of adults in the Netherlands are obese, versus 15% in Denmark

Denmark: 15.2% (2024) · Netherlands: 16.9% (2024)

21% of adults in the Netherlands smoke, versus 16% in Denmark

Denmark: 15.7% (2024) · Netherlands: 20.5% (2024)

People in Denmark rate their lives 0.32 points higher than in the Netherlands

Denmark: 7.54 (2025) · Netherlands: 7.22 (2025)

Adults in Denmark drink 11% more alcohol than in the Netherlands

Denmark: 9.5 litres (2023) · Netherlands: 8.6 litres (2023)

Denmark has 41% more meat per person than the Netherlands

Denmark: 101.3 kg (2023) · Netherlands: 71.6 kg (2023)

Denmark has 267 kcal more food per person per day than the Netherlands

Denmark: 3,734 kcal (2023) · Netherlands: 3,467 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Netherlands put in 59 more hours a year than in Denmark

Denmark: 1,380 hours (2023) · Netherlands: 1,439 hours (2023)

Adults in Denmark went to school 0.36 years longer than in the Netherlands

Denmark: 13 years (2023) · Netherlands: 12.7 years (2023)

Denmark welcomed 2.6 times as many tourists per resident as the Netherlands (2019)

Denmark: 2.4 (2022) · Netherlands: 0.91 (2022)

Denmark and the Netherlands are practically level

Denmark: 13 (2026) · Netherlands: 13 (2026)

The Netherlands has won 524 Olympic medals, Denmark 216

Denmark: 216 (2026 edition) · Netherlands: 524 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Denmark are online, versus 97% in the Netherlands

Denmark: 100% (2024) · Netherlands: 97% (2024)

Home internet in the Netherlands is 3% faster than in Denmark

Denmark: 314 Mbps (2026) · Netherlands: 324 Mbps (2026)

Denmark and the Netherlands are practically level

Denmark: 100% (2024) · Netherlands: 100% (2024)

96% of people in the Netherlands live in cities, versus 89% in Denmark

Denmark: 89% (2025) · Netherlands: 96% (2025)

The Netherlands has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Denmark 127

Denmark: 127 (2024) · Netherlands: 129 (2024)

The Netherlands’ railway network is 13% longer than Denmark’s

Denmark: 2,682 km (2020) · Netherlands: 3,041 km (2021)

Denmark: no data · Netherlands: 2.29 (2023)

Forest covers 16% of Denmark, but only 11% of the Netherlands

Denmark: 16% (2024) · Netherlands: 11% (2024)

The average person in the Netherlands emits 33% more CO₂ than someone in Denmark

Denmark: 4.7 t (2024) · Netherlands: 6.3 t (2024)

91% of Denmark’s electricity is renewable, versus 51% in the Netherlands

Denmark: 91.2% (2025) · Netherlands: 51.2% (2025)

The air in the Netherlands carries 7% more fine dust than in Denmark

Denmark: 9 µg/m³ (2024) · Netherlands: 9.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 22% more likely to be murdered in Denmark than in the Netherlands

Denmark: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Netherlands: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Netherlands are 21% deadlier than in Denmark

Denmark: 4.2 per 100k (2023) · Netherlands: 5.1 per 100k (2023)

The Netherlands is on average 1.6 °C warmer than Denmark

Denmark: 9.6°C (2016–2025 avg) · Netherlands: 11.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Netherlands gets 5% more rain than Denmark

Denmark: 845 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Netherlands: 887 mm (2016–2025 avg)