The law will affect just 0.2% of Muslim women in the country (at most), according to a 2013 paper estimating the number of Muslim women who wear niqabs and burqas in Denmark. The study said that of the 150 women who wear the Islamic face veil in Denmark, around half are ethnic Danes who converted to Islam. [...]
In 2009, the Danish government reached out to Warburg and her research group at the university’s Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies to carry out a study on the number of Muslim women wearing the burqa or other types of face coverings in Denmark. The report they produced—dubbed the “burqa report”(link in Danish)—concluded that a tiny proportion of Muslim women wear the face veil. A further investigation in 2013 produced the estimate of 150 women, or between 0.1% and 0.2% of Muslim women in Denmark. [...]
The number of Muslim women wearing Islamic face veils is minuscule across Europe. Various studies estimate that the Islamic face veil is worn by 0.03% of the Austrian Muslim population, 0.04% of the French Muslim population, and, at most, 0.05% of the Muslim population in the Netherlands. Despite this, like Denmark, a ban on wearing full or partial face veils in public has passed in all three countries.
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