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How is integration actually going? Statistics Denmark has just published a status report on immigration in 2025.

Immigration in numbers: Indian men earn on average 110,000 kroner more per year than Danish men

Tarek Alomar got a job at Rema 1000 after two years of IGU training in the store. He fled Syria in 2015, where he had studied law. Arkivfoto: Jens Dresling
Tarek Alomar got a job at Rema 1000 after two years of IGU training in the store. He fled Syria in 2015, where he had studied law. Arkivfoto: Jens Dresling
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How many immigrants?

At the beginning of 2025, 12.6 percent of the population in Denmark had immigrated from other countries.

A little more than half came from non-Western countries such as Ukraine, Syria, and Lebanon.

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