Outsourcing
Which Danish companies engage in outsourcing and why? What type of activities are being relocated abroad? To which locations do companies choose to outsource? How many jobs are being lost and created as a result of outsourcing decisions? 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.
Relocation of a previously integrated part of a company to another company abroad.
Relocation of jobs or tasks from one company or institution to another.
Selected statistics on Outsourcing
International outsourcing by industry and time period
Data has been collected via a digital survey, and has been supplied with background information from the Business Statistical Register.
Change in the number of outsourced jobs
Data has been collected via a digital survey, and has been supplied with background information from the Business Statistical Register.
Companies' motives for international outsourcing by degree of importance
The diagram shows the importance of various motives for companies’ outsourcing decisions.
Data has been collected via a digital survey, and has been supplied with background information from the Business Statistical Register.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the statistics International organisation and outsourcing is to shed light on significant globalization trends concerning the enterprises' global organization and the extent of international sourcing of business functions for the period 2018-2020 as well as direct trade (goods and services) with enterprises abroad in 2020. Also covered is the organization of business functions in Denmark. The statistics has been collected also for the periods 2001-2006, 2009-2011, and 2014-2016. The survey is part of an international survey co-financed by Eurostat, the statistical office of EU.