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Denmark
Denmark has no national ID card; nearly all adults use MitID. A first-stage state wallet called AltID launched in June 2026 ahead of the EU wallet deadline. The central bank has said retail CBDC is not justified, and Denmark is outside the euro area.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Denmark
- Program
- MitID; AltID (first stage of Danish EUDI wallet)
- Status
- Used by most adults
- National ID card
- ID card voluntary
- Biometrics
- No
- Law
- EU Regulation 2024/1183
A vendor guide reports 97.2% of people over 15 held an active MitID and 5.3 million users were registered in April 2026. It reports AltID launched in June 2026 with 281,390 users on 4 August 2026 and is not yet EU-certified. This comes from one vendor source.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- No known work
Danmarks Nationalbank has said since 2017 that a CBDC would not improve Danish payments and has no plan to issue one; Governor Krogstrup said in March 2023 falling cash use alone does not justify one. Denmark is outside the euro area.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2026-06Rolling it out
The AltID app, the first stage of the Danish EU wallet, launched (reported by a vendor guide). Didit — Denmark ↗
- 2023-03Pushback
Governor Signe Krogstrup said falling cash use does not by itself justify a retail CBDC. Ledger Insights ↗
UN and WHO
How Denmark has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 85.7 · rank 3 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 2
Sovereignty score
How the -3 adds up
- -1Government digital ID used by most adults source ↗
- -1Must offer an EU digital ID wallet by Dec 2026 source ↗
- -1Prices carbon nationally (tax or emissions trading) source ↗
Points come only from public, sourced actions we track, scored the same way for every country. It isn't a grade of a whole government. How scoring works →
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.