The World of Apples

Apples of Denmark

16 varieties in the atlas came from Denmark. The oldest is Gravenstein, dated by about 1669.

Map of where the apple varieties in the atlas came from A map of the world on the Equal Earth projection, with a dot for each variety at its place of origin.

Harvest

Denmark grew 18,510 tonnes of apples in 2024, 0.02% of the world's harvest; it ranked 72nd among the world's producers.1

1961 2024
The figures
YearTonnes
2024 18,510
2023 13,070
2022 21,940
2021 30,560
2020 40,020
2019 25,210
2018 32,650
2017 20,496
2016 36,470
2015 35,647
2014 35,371
2013 31,184
2012 18,731
2011 25,735
2010 24,190
2009 27,513
2008 28,958
2007 32,000
2006 31,779
2005 35,307
2004 35,307
2003 32,100
2002 18,800
2001 20,000
2000 25,000
1999 32,000
1998 29,000
1997 33,000
1996 18,000
1995 30,000
1994 37,500
1993 80,000
1992 83,000
1991 55,000
1990 70,000
1989 52,000
1988 45,000
1987 26,492
1986 40,201
1985 45,105
1984 54,376
1983 47,159
1982 59,462
1981 43,296
1980 115,000
1979 125,000
1978 120,000
1977 129,643
1976 102,767
1975 128,328
1974 104,134
1973 116,332
1972 93,334
1971 115,457
1970 120,625
1969 125,816
1968 122,416
1967 122,336
1966 111,893
1965 125,400
1964 122,615
1963 119,798
1962 108,295
1961 113,295

Estimated or imputed by FAOSTAT, not a figure the country reported.

Varieties from Denmark, oldest first

  • Watercolour painting of Gravenstein apples by Mary Daisy Arnold.

    Gravenstein

    A triploid of disputed origin, linked to Gråsten Castle and to Italy; Danish growers named it the national apple in 2005

    Denmark, by about 1669

  • Photograph of Signe Tillisch apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Signe Tillisch

    Raised in Denmark in 1866 and named after the grower's daughter; DNA shows it a child of Alexander and London Pippin

    Denmark, 1866

  • Photograph of Filippa apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Filippa

    Grown from pips sown in a pot by Filippa Johannsen at Hundstrup, Fyn, about 1880; a parent of Aroma

    Denmark, about 1880

  • Photograph of Ingrid Marie apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Ingrid Marie

    Found in a Fyn school garden about 1910; Denmark's most widespread apple until 1997 and still Sweden's in 2023

    Denmark, about 1910

And 12 more in the catalogue, A to Z

Sources

  1. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Updated 31 December 2025. Supports: each country's apple harvest by year (item 515, apples, in tonnes, 1961 to 2024), the shares of the world's harvest and the ranks worked out from them, and which figures FAOSTAT estimated or imputed.