Ownership of agricultural land
Who owns the agricultural land in Denmark? Private individuals, companies or foundations? And how big a share of the land is Danish-owned and foreign-owned, respectively? Learn more about the subject with the ‘Ownership of agricultural land’ statistics.
Selected statistics on Ownership of agricultural land
Development in Danish-owned agricultural land
Data are collected from The IACS register (Integrated Agricultural Control System), which is register on the farmers applications for crop subsidies with number hectares distributed by crops. IACS is administrated by the Ministry of Agriculture. Additionally the Business Register and address registers are used as sources. BFE_number which is the code for a property, in these statistics an agricultural property.
Foreign-owned agricultural land
Data are collected from The IACS register (Integrated Agricultural Control System), which is register on the farmers applications for crop subsidies with number hectares distributed by crops. IACS is administrated by the Ministry of Agriculture. Additionally the Business Register and address registers are used as sources. BFE_number which is the code for a property, in these statistics an agricultural property.
Agricultural land by type of ownership
Data are collected from The IACS register (Integrated Agricultural Control System), which is register on the farmers applications for crop subsidies with number hectares distributed by crops. IACS is administrated by the Ministry of Agriculture. Additionally the Business Register and address registers are used as sources. BFE_number which is the code for a property, in these statistics an agricultural property.
Agricultural land ownership by sex
Data are collected from The IACS register (Integrated Agricultural Control System), which is register on the farmers applications for crop subsidies with number hectares distributed by crops. IACS is administrated by the Ministry of Agriculture. Additionally the Business Register and address registers are used as sources. BFE_number which is the code for a property, in these statistics an agricultural property.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the statistics Ownership of agricultural land is to show how the Danish agricultural land is distributed. The statistics are published for the first time with statistics for the years 2020-22.