Historical dataset showing Denmark literacy rate by year from N/A to N/A.

Denmark: Literacy rate: The latest value from is percent, unavailable from percent in . In comparison, the world average is 0.00 percent, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Denmark from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

Denmark: Youth literacy rate, ages 15-24: The latest value from is percent, unavailable from percent in . In comparison, the world average is 0.00 percent, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Denmark from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

A survey released in November 2024 and conducted for the Eurobarometer in October 2024 revealed that ** percent of people in Denmark read the written press every day. By contrast, another ** percent, and thus by a slight margin the majority of Danish respondents, stated that they never read the written press.

This statistic displays the survey showing the share of children aged 9 to 14 years who read books in their free time in Denmark in 2017, by frequency and gender. During the survey period of 2017, ** percent of boys in Denmark aged 9 to14 years stated to be reading books almost everyday in their leisure time.

This dataset tracks annual reading and language arts proficiency from 2011 to 2022 for Denmark Elementary School vs. Wisconsin and Denmark School District

This dataset tracks annual reading and language arts proficiency from 2019 to 2022 for Denmark High School vs. Georgia and Forsyth County School District

The share of internet users reading news online in Denmark increased by 1.4 percentage points in 2022. Therefore, the share of online news readers in Denmark reached a peak in 2022 with 86.31 percent.The EU survey on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in households and by individuals is an annual survey conducted since 2002 aiming at collecting and disseminating harmonised and comparable information on the use of ICT in households and by individuals. Data presented in this domain are collected on a yearly basis by the National Statistical Institutes and are based on Eurostat's annual model questionnaire. This questionnaire is updated each year to reflect the evolving situation of information and communication technologiesFind more statistics on other topics about Denmark with key insights such as share of daily internet users, share of internet users seeking health information online, share of internet users engaging in online learning activities, and share of people that upload self-created content.

How often do Danes read e-books? A survey from 2022 found that **** percent of individuals interviewed in Denmark stated that they read e-books at least weekly, the same share as a year before. At the same time **** percent of respondents never read an e-book in 2022.

The results show that 18% of EU citizens display a high level of financial literacy, 64% a medium level, and the remaining 18% a low level. There are, however, wide differences across Member States. In only four Member States, more than one quarter of citizens score highly in financial literacy (the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Slovenia). The results also point to the need for financial education to target in particular women, younger people, people with lower income and with lower level of general education who tend to be on average less financially literate than other groups.

Processed data

Processed data files for the Eurobarometer surveys are published in .xlsx format.

• Volume A "Countries/EU" The file contains frequencies and means or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of (weighted) replies for each country or territory and for (weighted) EU results.
• Volume AP "Trends" The file compares to previous poll in (weighted) frequencies and means (or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of replies); shifts for each country or territory foreseen in Volume A and for (weighted) results.
• Volume AA "Groups of countries" The file contains (labelled) frequencies and means or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of (weighted) replies for groups of countries specified by the managing unit on the part of the EC.
• Volume AAP "Trends of groups of countries" The file contains shifts compared to the previous poll in (weighted) frequencies and means (or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of replies); shifts for each groups of countries foreseen in Volume AA and for (weighted) results.
• Volume B "EU/socio-demographics" The file contains (labelled) frequencies and means or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of replies for the EU as a whole (weighted) and cross-tabulated by some 20 sociodemographic, socio-political or other variables, depending on the request from the managing unit on the part of the EC or the managing department of the other contracting authorities.
• Volume BP "Trends of EU/socio-demographics" The file contains shifts compared to the previous poll in (weighted) frequencies and means (or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of replies); shifts for each country or territory foreseen in Volume B above)and for (weighted) results.
• Volume C "Country/socio-demographics" The file contains (labelled) weighted frequencies and means or other synthetic indicators including elementary bivariate statistics describing distribution patterns of replies for each country or territory surveyed separately and cross-tabulated by some 20 socio-demographic, socio-political or other variables (including a regional breakdown).

For SPSS files and questionnaires, please contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer

This dataset tracks annual reading and language arts proficiency from 2010 to 2022 for Denmark Elementary School vs. Tennessee and Madison County School District

Denmark E-Commerce Market size was valued at USD 24 Billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 66.55 Billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 12% from 2025 to 2032.

Key Market Drivers:

High Digital Literacy and Internet Penetration: Denmark has one of the highest rates of internet penetration and digital literacy in Europe, creating a strong foundation for e-commerce growth. 98% of the Danish population has internet access, with 92% of Danes aged 16-89 making online purchases in 2023, the highest rate in the EU. Denmark continues to lead the EU’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), with nearly universal internet access and digital service adoption. The country’s digital infrastructure and citizen engagement have created optimal conditions for e-commerce growth, according to Statistics Denmark’s (Danmarks Statistik) Digital Economy Report 2023.

Scientific outreach delivers science to the people. But it can also deliver people to the science. In this work, we report our experience from a large-scale public engagement project promoting genomic literacy among Danish high school students with the additional benefit of collecting data for studying the genetic makeup of the Danish population. Not only did we confirm that students have a great interest in their genetic past, but we were also gratified to see that, with the right motivation, adolescents can provide high-quality data for genetic studies.

This collection consists of a mixture of historical and survey-based datasets which enabled the testing of the Protestant work ethic having a pre-reformation origin in the Catholic Order of Cistercians. The first group of datasets (in “england.zip”) relate to the first empirical exercise of the paper which shows that the presence of Cistercian monasteries in England (founded between 1128 and 1437) are correlated with productivity growth between 1377 and 1600/1801 after taking into account various controls and potential endogeneity in the location of the monasteries. The county-level data (obtained from various sources mentioned in the paper) includes: historical information on the presence of Cistercian monasteries; estimates of population density (as a Malthusian proxy for productivity); access to water, coal, land quality, literacy rates, roman roads, suitability of the land for pasture (as controls); the location of Royal forests (as an instrument to account for endogeneity). The second group of datasets (in “europe.zip”) relate to the second empirical exercise of the paper which demonstrates that the productivity effects of Cistercian monasteries has persisted to the present day across European regions (NUTS-2), particularly Catholic regions (where the effect of Cistercian monasteries is less likely to be confounded with the effect of the Reformation). Productivity is measured by two relevant items from the European Values survey (2008-10 wave): (1) do you think valuing ‘hard work’ is an important trait for children to learn at home; (2) do you think ‘thrift, saving money and things’ is an important trait for children to learn at home.

The European questionnaire on Information and Communication Technologies Data reveals that there exists a disparity between the internet usage of people with a low (At most lower secondary education), medium (Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education), and high (Tertiary education) formal education level. This disparity although present in most countries, differs widely in its severity.

In 2020, 77 percent of users with low formal education in Denmark responded that they used the internet to access online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines. A higher share of users with medium or higher education tended to use the internet to access news. According to the survey 87 percent of people with a medium level of formal education and 92 percent of users with a high degree of formal education accessed online news sites, newspapers, or news magazines. The disparity between people with lower and higher formal education in 2020 was 15 percent.

Comparison of the complete sample of children in the original SPELL who did take and who did not take the reading test in second grade.

Pre and post test scores from the original RCT study and the national test scores for children in the long-term study of SPELL.

Name, geographic coordinates and number of questionnaire respondents (N) for each of the 36 schools participating in the Where Are You From? project.

Baseline characteristics of children in the long-term study of SPELL.

This dataset tracks annual reading and language arts proficiency from 2010 to 2012 for Denmark Elementary School vs. Iowa and Fort Madison Community School District