(Copenhagen Post) According to the latest figures from the national statistics keeper Danmarks Statistik, every seventh resident in Denmark is either an immigrant or a direct descendant of an immigrant.
The group accounting for the highest number of immigrants and their descendants in Denmark is the Turks with almost 64,000, followed by Poland (over 48,000), Syria (over 42,000), and then Germany, Romania and Iraq (all over 33,000).
Lebanon (over 27,000), Pakistan (over 25,000), Bosnia and Herzegovina (over 23,000), Iran and Somalia (both over 21,000) and Afghanistan (over 19,000) completed the top 12.
Recent conflict has been a major catalyst for many of the nationalities, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Iran and Somalia (there were only a few immigrants from these countries in 1980).
