Soon, nine out of ten Danes will live in cities. Rural areas are becoming increasingly depopulated, according to new figures from the Statistics Denmark.
The proportion of Denmark’s population living in urban areas is now 88.1 per cent, an increase of 1.1 percentage points in ten years. Only 692,572 Danes live in sparsely populated areas, which is defined here as areas with less than 200 inhabitants.
However, the trend looks different among urban areas. It is larger towns, those with over 20,000 inhabitants, that attract the most. Many smaller cities are losing residents.
The largest is of course the Copenhagen area. 1.35 million people live there, almost a quarter of the Danes. But Aarhus, Odense, Ålborg and Esbjerg are also popular.