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Board members and managers

How many board members and managers are there in Denmark? How have the numbers developed over time, and how is the gender distribution? These are statistics of board members in effectively active enterprises and their managers in Denmark. 

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A person who is a member, deputy or chairman of the board in an active enterprise.

A person who is a member of the executive board, a CEO or a director of an active enterprise.

Selected statistics on Board members and managers

This page shows selected popular statistics on the subject of Board members and managers. In Statbank Denmark, you can find more data and compile your own statistics.

Development in the number of board members

Here you can see how the number of board members has developed over the years.
More about the figure
Last update
30.1.2025
Next update
27.11.2025
Source data

The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:

  • Membership register
  • General enterprise statistic
  • Personal statistics register
  • Educational register

Development in the number of managers

Here you can see how the number of managers has developed over the years.
More about the figure
Last update
30.1.2025
Next update
27.11.2025
Source data

The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:

  • Membership register
  • General enterprise statistic
  • Personal statistics register
  • Educational register

Gender distribution of board members

Here you can see the distribution of men and women.
More about the figure
Last update
30.1.2025
Next update
27.11.2025
Source data

The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:

  • Membership register
  • General enterprise statistic
  • Personal statistics register
  • Educational register

Gender distribution of managers

Here you can see the distribution of men and women.
More about the figure
Last update
30.1.2025
Next update
27.11.2025
Source data

The statistics integrates information from the statistical business register and information from the personal statistical register. The core of the statistics is the membership register, where information about the membership relation to the enterprises are gathered. The membership register information comes from the administrative business register and is based on the regulatory self reporting by the enterprises. Members only encompasses those registered in this source. It is therefore possible that there can be more members than known in the statistics. From the general enterprise statistics the enterprise form, -size and -sector is gathered for classification. From the personal statistics, information about the members age, sex, education and residence is gathered. In total the following statistics, registers and sources are included:

  • Membership register
  • General enterprise statistic
  • Personal statistics register
  • Educational register

On the statistics – documentation, sources and method

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Board members and managers

The purpose of the statistics is to give a coherent and consistent description of the structure and development among members of board and management in enterprises. The statistics was first published for the reference year 2017. In 2024, a revised time series was created retrospectively back to 2019.

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