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Denmark: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Denmark Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Denmark

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

11.80 Percent of people

European ranking

27 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.5 puntos

Denmark is 3.5 points below the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 0.71 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 11.80 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Hovedstaden

    +8.50

    12.80

  2. 2

    Nordjylland

    +5.10

    12.40

  3. 3

    Midtjylland

    +4.20

    12.30

  4. 4

    Syddanmark

    -6.80

    11.00

  5. 5

    Sjælland

    -22.00

    9.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Denmark performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Denmark

In Denmark, Poverty risk is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 11.8% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 4.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Denmark, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 12.10% in 2020 to 11.80% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 11.60% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Denmark

In Denmark, regional values for Poverty risk are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Hovedstaden records the highest value (12.8%) and Sjælland the lowest (9.2%), a gap of 3.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Denmark, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.