Sickness benefits
Here you can find statistics on sickness benefit recipients broken down by employment status, as well as information on how many have partially resumed work, broken down by employees and self-employed.
Explainer on…
A situation where an employee or self-employed person on sick leave works a reduced number of hours compared to their normal working hours and receives sickness benefits for the hours not worked. This arrangement is often used when a person suffering from stress is gradually training to return to a full workweek.
Selected statistics on Sickness benefits
Sickness benefit recipients over time
Since 2020, the statistics have been based on extracts from the Municipal Sickness Benefits System (KSD), which was developed and is operated by the IT company KMD. KMD supplies data to Statistics Denmark, with all information relating to a case being submitted if any changes have occurred since the previous data delivery.
Sickness benefit recipients with partial return to work
Since 2020, the statistics have been based on extracts from the Municipal Sickness Benefits System (KSD), which was developed and is operated by the IT company KMD. KMD supplies data to Statistics Denmark, with all information relating to a case being submitted if any changes have occurred since the previous data delivery.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the Sickness Benefits statistics is to provide information about the costs of sickness benefits and the number of sickness benefit recipients, both in terms of the number of people affected and the number of full-time employees. The statistics have been compiled since 1995, but are in their current form comparable from the year 2020 onwards.