Board members and managers
How many board members and managers are there in Denmark? How have the numbers developed over time, and how is the gender distribution? These are statistics of board members in effectively active enterprises and their managers in Denmark.
Explainer on…
A person who is a member, deputy or chairman of the board in an active enterprise.
A person who is a member of the executive board, a CEO or a director of an active enterprise.
Selected statistics on Board members and managers
Development in the number of board members
The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:
- Membership register
- General enterprise statistic
- Personal statistics register
- Educational register
Development in the number of managers
The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:
- Membership register
- General enterprise statistic
- Personal statistics register
- Educational register
Gender distribution of board members
The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:
- Membership register
- General enterprise statistic
- Personal statistics register
- Educational register
Gender distribution of managers
The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:
- Membership register
- General enterprise statistic
- Personal statistics register
- Educational register
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the statistics is to give a coherent and consistent description of the structure and development among members of board and management in enterprises. The statistics was first published for the reference year 2017. With the publication of the statistics for the reference year 2022, a revised time series was created retrospectively back to and including the reference year 2019.