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> Ask the Dutch. How do they do it? Or do you assume they do not have young kids or grandmas? They do it the dutch way. Things you wouldn't do anywhere else, like leaving babies in their strollers in the streets outside shops when they go shopping. Denmark is really a big village. Source: my girlfriend family is Danish and I had saw them last time 4 days ago. > * Trains to rural areas It's more easily said than done.…
> They do it the dutch way. > Denmark is really a big village. ?????
Since the 90s birth rate and death rate are almost exactly the same, no growth, no decrease.
The only growth has been due to immigration.
It has the same population of Italian Lazio, but on a 3 times bigger area.
Copenhagen, the capital, hosts 10% of the population, with a crazy 6.800 people per sq. km, 45x the average population density.
In contrast Lombardy in Italy, one of the most productive areas of the country, host 10 million people (1/6th or 17% of the Italian population) has 450 people per sq. km and Milan, the most productive city in Italy, has 2.000 people per sq. km.
They are divided in age groups that are almost of the same size https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/De...
These are all characteristics of village communities.
- Size of the Community:
communities are smaller in area than the urban communities. The second city of Denmark is 5 times smaller than Copenhagen, the 5th is 20 times smaller. Only the first 10 cities of Denmark have more than 50k inhabitants.
- Density of Population:
The density of population is low, except in the rare urban areas.
- Homogeneity of Population:
most of the people living in village communities are related (90% of the danish people have Danish parents), most of the non Danish population lives in Copenhagen.