 Approximately 350 @,@ 000 non @-@ Western immigrants lived in Denmark in 2006 , representing about 7 % of the country 's population . According to figures reported by the BBC , about 270 @,@ 000 of these were Muslim ( ca . 5 % of the population ) . In the 1970s Muslims arrived from Turkey , Pakistan , Morocco and Yugoslavia to work . In the 1980s and 90s most Muslim arrivals were refugees and asylum seekers from Iran , Iraq , Somalia and Bosnia . Muslims are the second @-@ largest religious group in Denmark behind Lutherans . 
