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		DENMARK The Danes, a homogenous Gothic-Germanic people, have inhabited Denmark since prehistoric times. Danish is the principal language. A small German-speaking minority lives in southern Jutland; a mostly Inuit population inhabits Greenland; and the Faroe Islands have a Nordic population with its own language. POPULATION GRAPH Population: 5,368,854 (July 2002 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 18.7% (male 514,589; female 488,121) 15-64 years: 66.4% (male 1,806,722; female 1,760,149) 65 years and over: 14.9% (male 334,599; female 464,674) (2002 est.) Population growth rate: 0.29% (2002 est.) Birth rate: 11.74 births/1,000 population (2002 est.) Death rate: 10.81 deaths/1,000 population (2002 est.) Net migration rate: 2.01 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/female total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2002 est.) Infant mortality rate: 4.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.91 years female: 79.67 years (2002 est.) male: 74.3 years Total fertility rate: 1.73 children born/woman (2002 est.) HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.17% (1999 est.) HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 4,300 (1999 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (1999 est.) Nationality: noun: Dane(s) adjective: Danish Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2% Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: NA% female: NA%