Ownership of agricultural land
Who owns the agricultural land in Denmark? Private individuals, companies or foundations? And how big a share of the land is Danish-owned and foreign-owned, respectively? Learn more about the subject with the ‘Ownership of agricultural land’ statistics.
Selected statistics on Ownership of agricultural land
Development in Danish-owned agricultural land
Data is retrieved from several registers: The Integrated Agricultural Control System (IACS), which is a register of farmers' applications for area support with the number of hectares of land divided into fields. The register has a record of the fields used for agricultural activity with crops. The GLR is maintained by the Danish Agency for Green Land Redevelopment and Aquatic Environment. The land is registered in the Land Registry, which is administered by the Danish Geodata Agency, as is the Owner Register, which describes ownership of real estate. Information about the owners is retrieved from the Central Personal Register (CPR), and in addition there is the Central Business Register (CVR), address registers, and finally Eurostat's Group Register (EGR).
Foreign-owned agricultural land
Data is retrieved from several registers: The Integrated Agricultural Control System (IACS), which is a register of farmers' applications for area support with the number of hectares of land divided into fields. The register has a record of the fields used for agricultural activity with crops. The GLR is maintained by the Danish Agency for Green Land Redevelopment and Aquatic Environment. The land is registered in the Land Registry, which is administered by the Danish Geodata Agency, as is the Owner Register, which describes ownership of real estate. Information about the owners is retrieved from the Central Personal Register (CPR), and in addition there is the Central Business Register (CVR), address registers, and finally Eurostat's Group Register (EGR).
Agricultural land by type of ownership
Data is retrieved from several registers: The Integrated Agricultural Control System (IACS), which is a register of farmers' applications for area support with the number of hectares of land divided into fields. The register has a record of the fields used for agricultural activity with crops. The GLR is maintained by the Danish Agency for Green Land Redevelopment and Aquatic Environment. The land is registered in the Land Registry, which is administered by the Danish Geodata Agency, as is the Owner Register, which describes ownership of real estate. Information about the owners is retrieved from the Central Personal Register (CPR), and in addition there is the Central Business Register (CVR), address registers, and finally Eurostat's Group Register (EGR).
Agricultural land ownership by sex
Data is retrieved from several registers: The Integrated Agricultural Control System (IACS), which is a register of farmers' applications for area support with the number of hectares of land divided into fields. The register has a record of the fields used for agricultural activity with crops. The GLR is maintained by the Danish Agency for Green Land Redevelopment and Aquatic Environment. The land is registered in the Land Registry, which is administered by the Danish Geodata Agency, as is the Owner Register, which describes ownership of real estate. Information about the owners is retrieved from the Central Personal Register (CPR), and in addition there is the Central Business Register (CVR), address registers, and finally Eurostat's Group Register (EGR).
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the statistics Ownership of agricultural land is to show how the Danish agricultural land is distributed by nationality of the owners.