Braithwaite scored his first international goal in his second match in a friendly in August 2013 against Poland. In May 2018 he was named in Denmark’s final 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Braithwaite has a Guyanese father and his younger sister Mathilde (born 2002) plays football for KoldingQ and for Denmark's U-16 national women's football team. Braithwaite is the nephew and business partner of the American based, Danish born, real estate developer, Philip Michael. They co-own real estate in the New York Market and are building a historic high-rise in Jersey City, NJ. Braithwaite is married to French entrepreneur, journalist and TV-personality, Anne-Laure Louis Braithwaite. They have three sons together and are expecting a fourth child in 2020. Esbjerg