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Danish-owned foreign affiliates

How many Danish-controlled affiliates are abroad? How many employees are working in these companies? In which countries are these affiliates located and what is the main activity of these affiliates? These are some of the questions you can find an answer to on this page. 

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Increasing exchange of capital, goods, information, jobs and people between countries and continents and the resulting mutual political, economic, technological and cultural dependence between the countries and peoples of the world.

A company that is subject to the controlling influence of a parent company. A subsidiary company is an independent and autonomous entity with its own management, which can hire and fire employees and prepare independent financial statements, etc. A subsidiary company can have only one direct parent company. A branch is not considered a subsidiary company.

A company abroad (subidiary or branch) that is subject to the controlling influence of a parent company from Denmark.

Selected statistics on Danish foreign affiliates

This page shows selected popular statistics on the subject of Danish foreign affiliates. In Statbank Denmark, you can find more data and compile your own statistics.

Change in number of foreign affiliates and employees abroad

The diagram shows the development in the number of Danish foreign affiliates and the number of employees abroad.
More about the figure
Last update
2.3.2023
Next update
4.4.2024
Source data

Danish foreign affiliates statistics is a census survey (not a sample survey), which means that the statistics is intended to be based on information from all Danish companies that own or control affiliates abroad. At the same time this means that a grossing up of the figures is not carried out.

The survey is a mandatory questionnaire based survey.

Sources for background information is a number of internal sources notably the Business Register and external sources, notably the Foreign Direct Investment Register of the Central Bank, Annual Company Reports and commercial data sources. In that way all enterprises in Denmark with controlling influence in foreign affiliates will contribute to this statistics.

Background information regarding the Danish companies are based on internal sources in Statistics Denmark, primarily the Business Register.

Danish foreign affiliates

The diagram illustrates number of Danish foreign affiliates by country
More about the figure
Last update
2.3.2023
Next update
4.4.2024
Source data

Danish foreign affiliates statistics is a census survey (not a sample survey), which means that the statistics is intended to be based on information from all Danish companies that own or control affiliates abroad. At the same time this means that a grossing up of the figures is not carried out.

The survey is a mandatory questionnaire based survey.

Sources for background information is a number of internal sources notably the Business Register and external sources, notably the Foreign Direct Investment Register of the Central Bank, Annual Company Reports and commercial data sources. In that way all enterprises in Denmark with controlling influence in foreign affiliates will contribute to this statistics.

Background information regarding the Danish companies are based on internal sources in Statistics Denmark, primarily the Business Register.

Distribution of employees in foreign affiliates by industry

The figure shows the number of employees in Danish foreign affiliates, broken down by industry.
More about the figure
Last update
2.3.2023
Next update
4.4.2024
Source data

Danish foreign affiliates statistics is a census survey (not a sample survey), which means that the statistics is intended to be based on information from all Danish companies that own or control affiliates abroad. At the same time this means that a grossing up of the figures is not carried out.

The survey is a mandatory questionnaire based survey.

Sources for background information is a number of internal sources notably the Business Register and external sources, notably the Foreign Direct Investment Register of the Central Bank, Annual Company Reports and commercial data sources. In that way all enterprises in Denmark with controlling influence in foreign affiliates will contribute to this statistics.

Background information regarding the Danish companies are based on internal sources in Statistics Denmark, primarily the Business Register.

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Danish Foreign Affiliates

The purpose of the statistics Danish Foreign Affiliates is to shed light on the Danish companies activities abroad through its controlled affiliates. Hence the statistics contributes considerably to the description of globalization, which is increasingly important to the development of the Danish economy and society. The statistics are comparable from 2007 onwards.

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You can broaden your search on this topic by looking at more detailed tables at country-level or at changes over time via Statbank. 

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