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Denmark

6 million people · EU member

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.

-3Sovereignty scoreDeep inHow it adds up ↓

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

  1. 2026-06Rolling it out

    The AltID app, the first stage of the Danish EU wallet, launched (reported by a vendor guide). Didit — Denmark ↗

  2. 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 ↗

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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.