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.
Selected statistics on Danish foreign affiliates
Change in number of foreign affiliates and employees abroad
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
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
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.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
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.