Denmark has taken over from Canada as the country with the largest number of facebook profiles per capita.

34 percent of the Danish population have placed a profile on Facebook compared to 33 percent in Canada. At the beginning of December, Denmark's number was 30 percent.

Senior citizens
According to a survey by the IT company Komfo, which helps companies profile themselves on Facebook, the number of Danes on Facebook grew by 268 percent in 2008 alone.

The report says that an unusually large number of Danish middle-aged and senior citizens use Facebook compared with other countries.

"Looking at the average age in other popular Facebook countries shows that Denmark is probably the country in the world with the highest average age - and this is one of the factors that has made Denmark the biggest Facebook country in the world," the report says.