Kan jeg få et nyt personnummerCopy wiki link

The Danish Civil Registration System’s (cpr.dk) official citizen guidance on obtaining a new CPR personal identification number. The saved snapshot is the live page, with the .raw.html companion kept as the provenance copy.

What the page establishesCopy wiki link

Denmark provides three routes to a new identifier:

1. error correction — the number encodes a wrong birth date or sex;
2. identity misuse — in special cases where the number “is or has been involved in misuse of identity,” the Ministry of the Interior and Housing may assign a new number on written application (codified in the 2022 Personregister consolidation);
3. legal gender change — available since 1 September 2014, after a six-month reflection period.

The second route has no Swedish equivalent: Skatteverket offers birth-date correction and legal-sex change, but no remedy for a correct number that has been compromised or misused. That route also has no Norwegian equivalent that this session could establish; Norway’s Tax Administration describes the fødselsnummer as remaining the same all one’s life.

LimitationsCopy wiki link

The page states availability, not frequency; how often Denmark grants the misuse route is not documented here. “Special cases” is an administrative standard whose strictness in practice this source does not reveal.

Significance for the wikiCopy wiki link

The decisive datapoint for the immutability comparison in Public-by-default identity in international comparison: Sweden is not merely exposed; it is one of the few examined systems with no misuse-driven identifier reset at all — Denmark, the United States (Can I change my Social Security number), and Japan (My Number FAQ) each provide one. It complements Swedish personal identity number’s account of Sweden’s narrow replacement routes.