Land use accounts
How big an area is Denmark? How big a share is covered by forest? The land use accounts show the size of municipalities in square kilometres as well as the land cover of municipalities, e.g. how much is covered by fields, forests and roads.
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The observed physical and biological cover of the Earth's surface which include natural vegetation and abiotic (non-living) surfaces.
Selected statistics on Land use accounts
Land cover of Denmark
The compilation of statistics on land cover is based on a several maps on land coverage. The maps are all produced outside Statistics Denmark and are used for a variety of administrative purposes. Sources are:
- GeoDanmark - a Danish topographical map, maintained by the municipalities and the Agency for Data Supply and Infrastructure.
- The Danish Cadastral Map from the Danish Geodata Agency
- Fields and field blocks, an agricultural map from the Danish Agriculture Agency.
- Management plans state forests
- Management plans Danish Defense
- Map of Natura2000 habitat types
- Map of protected habitat types
- Corinne Land Cover and CLCplus Backbone
For land use, the sources used are:
- The Danish Cadastral Map from the Danish Geodata Agency
- The Danish register of buildings and dwellings
- The Danish register of businesses, as well as the register of agricultural establishments
- The civil registry
- Municipal plans
- The Danish Tax authorities register on properties
Number of inhabitants is from FOLK1A as of 1 Jan.
Forest area
Here you can see how big a part (per cent) of each municipality that is covered by forest.
Explore which municipalities have the most built-up, agricultural, dry and wet natural areas etc. by clicking ‘Get your own statistics in the Statbank about Land’ under the map and then ‘Select via map’.
The compilation of statistics on land cover is based on a several maps on land coverage. The maps are all produced outside Statistics Denmark and are used for a variety of administrative purposes. Sources are:
- GeoDanmark - a Danish topographical map, maintained by the municipalities and the Agency for Data Supply and Infrastructure.
- The Danish Cadastral Map from the Danish Geodata Agency
- Fields and field blocks, an agricultural map from the Danish Agriculture Agency.
- Management plans state forests
- Management plans Danish Defense
- Map of Natura2000 habitat types
- Map of protected habitat types
- Corinne Land Cover and CLCplus Backbone
For land use, the sources used are:
- The Danish Cadastral Map from the Danish Geodata Agency
- The Danish register of buildings and dwellings
- The Danish register of businesses, as well as the register of agricultural establishments
- The civil registry
- Municipal plans
- The Danish Tax authorities register on properties
Number of inhabitants is from FOLK1A as of 1 Jan.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
These statistics concern the size of the land area of Denmark, how it is covered and how it is used. Land cover estimates how Denmark is covered by roads, buildings, crops, forests, lakes etc. Land use estimates for what purpose the land area of Denmark is used, e.g. for housing, industry, trade, recreation etc. Land accounts are part of the the Environmental-Economic Accounts (Green National Accounts).