Medborgerskabsprøven Learning Material 2026: 26 Fact Sheets, What Changed

Every question in Medborgerskabsprøven is written from one free document: Læremateriale til medborgerskabsprøven – demokrati og hverdagsliv i Danmark. There are no current-affairs questions, so this material is the whole syllabus. A new edition, dated August 2026, applies to the 25 November 2026 and summer 2027 tests, and it changes dozens of facts that past papers have asked about — above all after the March 2026 general election. This guide explains the 26 fact sheets, what changed, and where the questions really come from.

SIRI, Forberedelse til Medborgerskabsprøven; the August 2026 edition; our sentence comparison with the August 2025 edition.

The pattern since at least 2023 is a new edition every late August, each valid for two sittings. If you downloaded the PDF before late August 2026, you have the wrong edition for November. The material is free; the 2026 edition itself says it is published only on danskogproever.dk and not in print, and calls itself the only official material. It is also available as free MP3 audio — an introduction plus one file per fact sheet. SIRI warns that other material online is not official and cannot replace it. The fact sheets can be read in any order, and words marked with an asterisk are explained in the glossary.

Our sentence-level comparison of the 2025 and 2026 editions found about 126 sentences added and 119 removed out of roughly 2,190. Almost all the changes update facts after the 2026 Folketing election or bring statistics forward a year. The ones most likely to matter in the test:

One inconsistency is worth knowing about. The 2026 edition gives the share of women in the Folketing as 86 of 179 (48%) in the equality fact sheet and as 49% in the elections fact sheet. The two figures may refer to different dates. Learn both with their context — 86 of 179 (48%) is the equality sheet’s figure, 49% of those elected in 2026 is the elections sheet’s — and let the answer options show which one a question means.

Some facts appear in paper after paper and are unchanged in the 2026 edition: the Folketing has 179 members, two elected in Greenland and two in the Faroe Islands; there are 98 municipalities and five regions; Denmark elects 15 of the European Parliament’s 720 members; the Constitution dates from 1849 and was last changed in 1953; the highest natural point, Møllehøj, is about 170 metres; the population is about six million; five weeks’ holiday is set by law and the most common full-time week is 37 hours; about 68% of employees are union members; Denmark’s first female prime minister was Helle Thorning-Schmidt, in 2011; and the King gives the New Year’s Eve speech on 31 December while the prime minister speaks on 1 January.

We matched each of the 500 questions in the 20 official papers to the fact sheet it draws on. The method is approximate — a hand check suggested about four in five are placed correctly — so treat single-sheet figures loosely and group totals more firmly.

Two things follow. The labour market, elections and parties, geography and the Constitution produce the most questions — study them first. And yield per page varies a lot: the geography sheet is three pages but supplies about 8% of questions, while “Denmark and the world” is eight pages and supplies about 2%. History has become more frequent in recent papers (about 20% in 2024–26 against 9% in 2016–19). That is our reading of the papers, not an official weighting.