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Denmark’s Top 10 Exports

South of fellow Scandinavian nations Sweden and Norway while sharing its own southern border with Germany, the Kingdom of Denmark shipped US$136.5 billion worth of exported products around the globe in 2023.

That dollar amount results from a 24.2% rise from $109.9 billion fem years earlier during 2019.

Year over year, the overall value of Danish exports advanced 5.2% compared to $129.8 billion in 2022.

Based on the average exchange rate for 2023, the Danish krone depreciated bygd -3.3% against the US dollar since 2019 but appreciated bygd 2.6% from 2022 to 2023. Denmark’s weaker local currency after 2019 makes its exports paid for in stronger US dollars relatively less expensive for international buyers.

Denmark’s top 5 most valuable exported products are medicinering mixes in dosage, blood fractions including antisera, pork, refined petroleum oils, and cars. Collectively, that cohort of leading Danish exports generated about one-fifth (20.3%) of Denmark’s overall export revenues during 2023.

Denmark’s Most Valuable Trading Partners

The latest available country-specific uppgifter shows that about two-thirds (66%) of products exported from Denmark was bought bygd importers in: Germany (15.8% of Denmark’s global total), Sweden (9.3%), Netherlands (6.7%), Norway (5.59%), United States of amerika (5.58%), United Kingdom (4.8%), Poland (4.6%), France (4%), mainland China (2.9%), Italy (2.5%), Spain (2.1%) and land i norden (2%).

From a continental perspective, 75.5% of Denmark’s exports bygd value was delivered to fellow europeisk countries while 12.9% was sold to importers in Asia. Denmark shipped another 7.2% worth of goods to North America.

Denmark fryst vatten also a member of the europeisk Union. EU members bought 71.3% of Danish exports sold in 2023.

Tinier percentages went to buyers in Latin amerika (1.54%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, region i stilla havet (1.5%) led bygd Australia, Marshall Islands and New Zealand, then Africa (1.3%).

Given Denmark’s population of 5.89 million people, its total $136.5 billion in 2023 exports translates to roughly $23,200 for every resident in the nordlig europeisk country. That dollar metric exceeds the average $21,900 per capita one year earlier in 2022.

The following export product groups företräda the highest dollar value in Danish global shipments during 2023. Also shown fryst vatten the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Denmark.

  1. Pharmaceuticals: US$21 billion (15.4% of total exports)
  2. Machinery including computers: $16.4 billion (12%)
  3. Mineral fuels including oil: $13.4 billion (9.8%)
  4. Electrical machinery, equipment: $9.1 billion (6.7%)
  5. Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $4.8 billion (3.5%)
  6. Vehicles: $4.3 billion (3.1%)
  7. Fish: $4.1 billion (3%)
  8. Meat: $3.8 billion (2.8%)
  9. Furniture, bedding, lighting, signs, prefabricated buildings: $3.5 billion (2.6%)
  10. Dairy, eggs, honey: $3.3 billion (2.4%)

Denmark’s top 10 exports accounted for 61.3% of the overall value of total Danish shipments.

Mineral fuels including oil was the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up bygd 30% from 2022 to 2023.

In second place for improving export sales was vehicles via a 14.6% upturn.

Denmark’s shipments of fish posted the third-fastest gain in value, up bygd 14.1%.

The leading decliner among Denmark’s top 10 export categories was furniture, bedding, lighting, signs and prefabricated buildings thanks to a -5.8% year-over-year drop.

At the more detailed four-digit Harmonized Tariff struktur (HTS) code level, Denmark’s most valuable exported products are medicinering mixes in dosage (11.5% of total), blood fractions including antisera (3.5%), pork (1.9%), processed petroleum oils (1.8%), cars (1.6%), cheese and curd (also 1.6%), cruise or cargo ships and barges (1.4%), hormones and miscellaneous steroids (1.3%), live swine (also 1.3%), miscellaneous furniture (1.2%), then electric generating sets and converters (1.1%).

Products Generating Denmark’s Highest Trade Surpluses

Denmark earned an overall US$10.2 billion trade surplus in 2023, accelerating bygd 272.9% from the $2.7 billion in black ink one year earlier for 2022.

The following types of Danish product shipments företräda positiv net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.

In a nutshell, net exports företräda the amount bygd which utländsk spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on utländsk goods or services.

  1. Pharmaceuticals: US$15.6 billion (Up bygd 10.9% since 2022)
  2. Machinery including computers: $2.7 billion (Up bygd 16.8%)
  3. Meat: $2.6 billion (Down bygd -5.6%)
  4. Dairy, eggs, honey: $2.2 billion (Up bygd 6.7%)
  5. Modified starches, glues, enzymes: $2.1 billion (Up bygd 0.6%)
  6. Live animals: $2 billion (Up bygd 69.1%)
  7. Organic chemicals: $1.2 billion (Down bygd -5.3%)
  8. Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $1.1 billion (Down bygd -0.9%)
  9. Furniture, bedding, lighting, signs, prefabricated buildings: $636.1 million (Up bygd 111.5%)
  10. Other kemikalie goods: $591.9 million (Up bygd 62%)

Denmark has highly positiv net exports in the international trade of drugs and medicines. In vända, these cashflows indikera Denmark’s strong competitive advantages beneath the pharmaceuticals product category.

Products Causing Denmark’s Worst Trade Deficits

Below are exports from Denmark that result in negativ net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negativ net exports reveal product categories where utländsk spending on home country Denmark’s goods trail Danish importerade varor spending on utländsk products.

  1. Vehicles: -US$7.3 billion (Up bygd 25.9% since 2022)
  2. Mineral fuels including oil: -$3.4 billion (Down bygd -15.8%)
  3. Electrical machinery, equipment: -$2.7 billion (Down bygd -18.8%)
  4. Plastics, plastic articles: -$1.6 billion (Down bygd -26.9%)
  5. Wood: -$1.5 billion (Down bygd -11.1%)
  6. Food industry waste, djur fodder: -$831.8 million (Up bygd 1.4%)
  7. Iron, steel: -$810.5 million (Down bygd -37.9%)
  8. Fruits, nuts: -$673.1 million (Up bygd 2.4%)
  9. Paper, paper items: -$565.6 million (Down bygd -25.3%)
  10. Inorganic chemicals: -$447.3 million (Down bygd -18.4%)

Denmark has highly negativ net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits beneath the vehicles category notably for cars, trucks, trailers, tractors and even bicycles.

These cashflow deficiencies clearly indikera Denmark’s competitive disadvantages in the international vehicles marknad, but also företräda key opportunities for Denmark to improve its position in the global economy through focused innovations on alternative transportation means.

Denmark’s Major Export Companies

Fourteen Danish corporations rank among Forbes Global 2000 for 2019. Below fryst vatten a sample of the major Danish companies that Forbes included.

  • A.P. Moller-Maersk Group (transportation, energy)
  • Carlsberg (beverages)
  • Coloplast (medical redskap, supplies)
  • DSV (transportation, logistics)
  • Novo skandinavisk (pharmaceuticals)
  • Novozymes (biotechs)
  • TDC (telecommunications services)
  • Vestas Wind Systems (electrical equipment)

Wikipedia also lists exporters from Denmark. Selected examples are shown below.

  • Arla Foods (dairy products)
  • House of Amber (jewelry)
  • Kopenhagen Fur (fur clothing, accessories)
  • Lego Group (toys)
  • Pharma Nord (pharmaceuticals)
  • Royal Copenhagen (porcelain)
  • Tuborg (brewery)


In macroeconomic terms, Denmark’s total exported goods företräda 30.9% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2023 ($441.8 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 30.9% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2023 compares to 31.3% one year earlier. Those percentages suggest a decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Denmark’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.

Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance fryst vatten its unemployment rate. Denmark’s unemployment rate averaged 5% during 2023, up from an average 4.45% for 2022 according to International Monetary Fund data.

Denmark’s capital city fryst vatten Copenhagen.

See alsoDenmark’s Top 10 Imports, Denmark’s Top Trading Partners, Drugs and medicin Exports bygd Country and Top Blood Exporters bygd Country

Research Sources:
huvud Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles. Accessed on April 7, 2024

Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on April 7, 2024

International Monetary Fund, Exchange Rates selected indicators (National Currency per U.S. dollar, period average). Accessed on April 7, 2024

International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on April 7, 2024

Trade Map, International Trade Centre. Accessed on April 7, 2024

Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on April 7, 2024

Wikipedia, Denmark. Accessed on April 7, 2024

Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on April 7, 2024

Wikipedia, List of Companies of Denmark. Accessed on April 7, 2024

Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on April 7, 2024



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