That dollar amount reflects a 10.5% gain compared to $123 billion five years earlier during 2021.
From 2024 to 2025, the total cost of Denmark’s imported goods accelerated by 10.3% starting from $123.2 billion.
Based on the average exchange rate for 2025, the Danish krone appreciated by 4.35% against the US dollar from 2024 to 2025. Denmark’s stronger local currency makes Denmark’s imports relatively less expensive when converted starting from Danish krones.
Denmark’s Biggest International Product Suppliers
The latest available country-specific data shows that 66.6% of products exported from Denmark was bought by importers in: Germany (15.6% of Denmark’s total), Sweden (9.3%), Netherlands (6.6%), United States of America (6.4%), Norway (5.9%), Poland (5.2%), United Kingdom (4.6%), France (3.7%), mainland China (2.7%), Italy (2.5%), Spain (2.1%) and Finland (2.1%).
Applying a continental lens, just over three-quarters (77.6%) of Denmark’s total imports by value in 2025 was purchased from other European countries. Trade partners based in Asia supplied another 15.9% of imports purchased by Denmark.
Denmark joined the European Union in 1973. Fellow EU member states expended 68.6% of total Danish import spending in 2025 up from 67.4% for the prior year.
Smaller percentages came from North America (4.8%), Latin America (1.1%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, Africa (0.3%), then Oceania (0.2%) led by Australia, New Zealand and Marshall Islands.
Given Denmark’s population of 6 million people, its total US$135.9 billion in 2025 imports translates to roughly $22,600 in yearly product demand from every person in the European Union member state. That dollar metric surpasses the average $20,700 per capita one year earlier in 2024.
Denmark’s Top 10 Imports
The following product groups represent the highest dollar value in Denmark’s import purchases during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each product category represents in terms of overall imports into Denmark.
- Machinery including computers: US$16.5 billion (12.1% of total imports)
- Vehicles: $14.1 billion (10.4%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $13 billion (9.6%)
- Mineral fuels including oil: $8.4 billion (6.2%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $7.6 billion (5.6%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: $4.8 billion (3.5%)
- Articles of iron or steel: $4.3 billion (3.1%)
- Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $4.2 billion (3.1%)
- Ships, boats: $3.9 billion (2.8%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $3.2 billion (2.4%)
Denmark’s top 10 imports approached three-fifths (58.7%) of the overall value of its product purchases from other countries.
Capital-intensive ships and boats posted the fastest growth in total cost among Denmark’s top 10 import categories, up by 36.6% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place were Denmark’s imports of items made from iron or steel (up 24.8%) ahead of imported machinery including computers (up 22%) and vehicles (up 19%).
The lone decline belongs to mineral fuels including oil imported into Denmark, pulled down by a -2.8% year-over-year reduction.
Please note that the results listed above are at the 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level.
At the more granular 4-digit level, importers in Denmark spent the most on imported cars (7.2% of the Danish total), medication mixes in dosage (3.9%), computers or optical readers (3.3%), vessels including cruise ships, cargo ships and ferry-boats (2.6%), crude oil (2.2%), phone devices including smartphones (2%), processed petroleum oils (1.8%), electrical energy (1.3%), blood products (1.2%) and bridge structures or parts (1%).
Denmark’s Major Machinery Imports Including Computers
In 2025, Danish importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of machinery including computers.
- Computers, optical readers: US$4.4 billion (up 63.1% from 2024)
- Taps, valves, similar appliances: $1.1 billion (up 8.5%)
- Miscellaneous machinery: $724.3 million (up 28.2%)
- Centrifuges, filters and purifiers: $686.3 million (up 12.3%)
- Transmission shafts, gears, clutches: $654 million (up 22.6%)
- Liquid pumps and elevators: $629 million (up 8.6%)
- Machinery parts: $527.7 million (down -0.9%)
- Miscellaneous engines, motors: $518.2 million (up 54.3%)
- Air or vacuum pumps: $514.1 million (up 8.4%)
- Refrigerators, freezers: $493.6 million (up 7.2%)
Among these import subcategories, Danish purchases of computers or optical readers (up 63.1%), miscellaneous engines and motors (up 54.3%) then miscellaneous machinery (up 28.2%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported machinery including computers among Danish businesses and consumers.
Denmark’s Major Automotive Imports
In 2025, Danish importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of vehicles.
- Cars: US$9.7 billion (up 23.8% from 2024)
- Trucks: $1.4 billion (up 9.2%)
- Automobile parts/accessories: $1.1 billion (up 10%)
- Trailers: $510.8 million (up 10.4%)
- Tractors: $417.9 million (up 28.5%)
- Public-transport vehicles: $173.5 million (up 0.5%)
- Motorcycles: $160.6 million (up 5.8%)
- Motorcycle parts/accessories: $145.5 million (up 14.8%)
- Bicycles, other non-motorized cycles: $135.2 million (up 14.2%)
- Chassis fitted with engine: $130.5 million (down -30.7%)
Among these import subcategories, Danish purchases of tractors (up 28.5%), cars (up 23.8%) then motorcycle parts or accessories (up 14.8%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported vehicles among Danish businesses and consumers.
Denmark’s Major Electrical Imports
In 2025, Danish importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of electrical goods including consumer electronics.
- Phone devices including smartphones: US$2.7 billion (up 6.4% from 2024)
- Insulated wire/cable: $1.3 billion (up 43.6%)
- Electrical converters/power units: $1 billion (up 5.6%)
- Lower-voltage switches, fuses: $592.7 million (up 8.8%)
- TV receivers/monitors/projectors: $589.2 million (up 6.3%)
- Electrical/optical circuit boards, panels: $580.9 million (up 0.2%)
- Electric motors, generators: $537.8 million (up 13.4%)
- Microphones/headphones/amps: $517.1 million (down -1.6%)
- Electric motor parts: $469.7 million (up 27.4%)
- Electric storage batteries: $436.9 million (up 12.6%)
Among these import subcategories, Danish purchases of insulated wire or cable (up 43.6%), electric motor parts (up 27.4%) then electric motors and generators (up 13.4%) grew at the fastest pace from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported electronics among Danish businesses and consumers.
Denmark’s Major Mineral Fuels Imports
In 2025, Danish importers spent the most on the following 10 subcategories of mineral fuels-related products including oil.
- Crude oil: US$3 billion (up 5.7% from 2024)
- Processed petroleum oils: $2.5 billion (down -18.8%)
- Electrical energy: $1.8 billion (up 39.3%)
- Coal tar oils (high temperature distillation): $431.6 million (down -18.6%)
- Petroleum gases: $316.5 million (down -41.8%)
- Petroleum oil residues: $100.4 million (down -7.2%)
- Natural bitumen, asphalt, shale: $31.1 million (up 1.3%)
- Coal, solid fuels made from coal: $27 million (down -50.7%)
- Peat: $20.5 million (down -12.2%)
- Petroleum jelly, mineral waxes: $12.8 million (down -18%)
Among these import subcategories, Danish purchases of electrical energy (up 39.3%), crude oil (up 5.7%) then natural bitumen, asphalt or shale (up 1.3%) grew from 2024 to 2025.
These amounts and the percentage gains within parenthesis clearly show where the strongest demand lies for different types of imported mineral fuels-related goods among Danish businesses and consumers.
See also Denmark’s Top 10 Exports, Denmark’s Top Trading Partners, Drugs and Medicine Exports by Country and Top Blood Exporters by Country
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Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Country Profiles. Accessed on September 11, 2026
EXCHANGE-RATES.org, Exchange Rates (Domestic Currency per U.S. dollar, December selected). Accessed on September 11, 2026
Trade Map, International Trade Centre. Accessed on September 11, 2026
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Wikipedia, Denmark. Accessed on September 11, 2026