Demographics and Denmark: An Immigration Model to Replicate?

Sift through the population statistics of any wealthy Western nation and you will notice a universal trend among them: more Third World immigration, increasing births to immigrants, and a steady decades long decline of the native population and traditional minorities. Regardless of ruling party or the disposition of national (and increasingly globalist) elites this trend of demographic replacement and ever-increasing immigration is seemingly set in stone across the Western world with a very notable exception, the Kingdom of Denmark.

Not only has Denmark radically reduced Third World immigration and implemented some of the most aggressive integration strategies in the West but the country has also done all of this while under the leadership of a female Social Democrat prime minister named Mette Frederiksen.

Under Frederiksen’s leadership the Danish Social Democrats have voted for or implemented a raft of measures, such as:

• Voting to confiscate money and jewelry to pay for asylum seekers

• Voting to ban burqas and niqabs

• Supporting a “paradigm shift” to a policy of remigration rather than integration

• A cap on non-Western immigrants

• The deportation of asylum seekers to a third country

• The closing of Islamic schools

Frederiksen and her party certainly still have left wing priorities. While in office she has expanded abortion availability, including to 15-year-olds without parental consent, and has consistently gone after Danish farmers with carbon taxation and a law that requires the conversion of farmland to “natural habitat“ and all the while immigration numbers have come down.

However, they do know that immigration is bad for the Danish people, espeially the Danish working class.

Frederiksen told the New York Times that

“There is a price to pay when too many people enter your society … who pay the highest price of this, it’s the working class or lower class in the society. It is not—let me be totally direct—it’s not the rich people. It is not those of us with good salaries, good jobs.”

In keeping with this vision, the Danish government has set about implementing a “zero vision” plan that seeks to reduce the number of spontaneous immigrants such as asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to zero. This plan also altered the status for refugees who are admitted to Denmark, giving them only temporary status with no path to Danish citizenship. Only 2,100 asylum seekers entered Denmark in 2023. Denmark as funded social media campaigns in Africa and the Middle East to make it abundantly clear that asylum seekers and economic migrants were not welcome in the country.

Denmark’s policies have been largely successful. In 2016 it was Syria, Thailand, India, Vietnam, and other non-Western countries that led the pack for immigration into Denmark. As of 2024 overall immigration was 83,216 while net immigration sat at 31,000, a decrease from 2016’s high. Most notably though is that most of Denmark’s immigrants are other Westerners, not overwhelmingly from the third world. In 2024 67% of immigrants coming to Denmark originated from other Western countries.

As of quarter one of 2025 some 16.3% of the population of Denmark is composed of immigrants and their descendants, an increase of 2.6% since Mette Frederiksen took office. These are not great numbers, Denmark is the homeland of the Danes after all, but once again context can provide a broader view. A 2024 report by the Danish government states that 10% of the population is composed of non-Western immigrants and their descendants, though this is an overestimate! Denmark does not include European countries such as Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus as Western. Yet, these are countries populated by European peoples of a Christian background. Once these populations are included the non-Western share of the national population is some 8.7%.

Denmark, in the face of the Great Replacement washing over all its neighbors, has managed to maintain a population which is 91.3% Western and 83.7% Danish! If Denmark is able to keep immigration numbers low and ideally force them even lower then in just a generation the descendants of Western immigrants will fully integrate into the Danish population, becoming culturally indistinguishable from a millennia-old Dane.

As for non-Western immigrants, Denmark must get serious about repatriation and double down on integration. At the moment the Danish Return Agency (great name!) offers just DKK 20,000 ($3,000 US) to entice failed asylum seekers or those who retract their asylum claim to return to their home countries. An additional DKK 20,000 payment can be applied for in ‘return aid’ though this is not guaranteed. These programs are not sufficient and a program of voluntary repatriation for any non-Western person in Denmark must be put into place if Denmark is to maintain its Western character.

Denmark is currently investing significant resources in a one-of-a-kind integration program which is breaking up neighbourhoods with populations that are more than 50% non-Western in origin. These individuals are moved out of their social housing and into social housing in majority Danish areas while their children are sent to mandatory integration classes that teach them Danish language, customs, and about Christian holidays. The goal of the Danish government is that no neighborhood should have population of non-Westerners that exceeds 30%. These immigrant communities, apparently desperate to live amongst their own, are now taking their opposition to the integration policy to the European Court of Human Rights.

Denmark should certainly continue with its policy of breaking up non-Western ethnic ghettos, but it is missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: a voluntary repatriation program. If these non-Western immigrants and their descendants are truly that desperate to live amongst their co-ethnics then certainly some would be willing to take cash funding to return to their countries of ancestral origin. In this way the Danisha authorities can give immigrants a choice: either integrate fully into Danish society or leave Denmark and preserve your cultural heritage in your homeland. This would certainly put real meaning behind the name of the Danish Return Agency!

Of course, it would be fantastic if all of these developments were happening under a nationalist rather than a leftist party, but progress is progress nonetheless and the Danes are lucky to have a government that cares about the demographic makeup of their nation. Laws on abortion, carbon taxation, or welfare state expansion can be repealed but if Denmark were to ever become minority Danish the process would likely be irreversible.

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