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Luxembourg
Luxembourg is an EU member state with a population of 682k. Member of the European Union since 1958.
27 Eurostat indicators across 4 topics, with full year-by-year history.
Population
682k
2025 · rank 26/27
Country at a glance
Luxembourg is a western europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Luxembourg City. The country joined the European Communities in 1958 as one of the six founding member states. Economically, Luxembourg is a small, ultra-high-income economy specialised in financial services, fund administration and EU institutions (the Court of Justice, the European Investment Bank), with the EU's highest GDP per capita. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. The official languages are Luxembourgish, French, German. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Luxembourg is currently 26th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record.
Indicators by topic
Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Luxembourg, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.
Labour & employment
5 indicators- Employment — EU-foreign citizens lfsa_egan 141k 2025 ▼0.4%
- Employment — foreign citizens (any) lfsa_egan 175k 2025 ▲1.2%
- Employment — national citizens lfsa_egan 149k 2025 ▲0.5%
- Employment — non-EU foreign citizens lfsa_egan 33k 2025 ▲8.8%
- Employment (15-64, all citizenships) lfsa_egan 323k 2025 ▲0.9%
Demography & population
5 indicators- Population — EU-foreign citizens migr_pop1ctz 244,291 2025 ▼0.5%
- Population — national citizens migr_pop1ctz 361,247 2025 ▲1.9%
- Population — non-EU foreign citizens migr_pop1ctz 76,142 2025 ▲6.0%
- Population — stateless persons migr_pop1ctz 175 2025 ▲10.8%
- Population (total, 1 January) migr_pop1ctz 681,973 2025 ▲1.5%
Migration & asylum
14 indicators- Acquisitions of EU citizenship migr_acq 5,892 2024 ▲1.0%
- First-time asylum applications migr_asyappctzm 325 2026 ▼81.5%
- Asylum negative first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 585 2025 ▲6.4%
- Asylum positive first-instance decisions migr_asydcfsta 615 2025 ▼36.6%
- Asylum positive — refugee status migr_asydcfsta 605 2025 ▼18.8%
- Asylum positive — subsidiary protection migr_asydcfsta 10 2025 ▼95.7%
- Asylum first-instance decisions (total) migr_asydcfsta 1,200 2025 ▼21.1%
- Return orders issued to non-EU citizens migr_eiord 1,340 2025 ▲2.3%
- Returns of non-EU citizens (executed) migr_eirtn 390 2025 ▼6.0%
- First residence permits — education migr_resfirst 842 2025 ▼1.3%
- First residence permits — work migr_resfirst 1,931 2025 ▼22.5%
- First residence permits — family migr_resfirst 5,078 2025 ▼1.6%
- First residence permits — other migr_resfirst 1,112 2025 ▼19.0%
- First residence permits issued (total) migr_resfirst 8,963 2025 ▼9.3%
More data on Luxembourg
This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.
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European Parliament
MEPs elected from Luxembourg (current term, 2024–2029).
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Public tenders
TED notices from Luxembourg buyers — public contracts above EU thresholds.
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EU research grants
CORDIS-funded R&D projects coordinated from Luxembourg.
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Cohesion funds
Kohesio-listed ERDF/ESF+/Cohesion Fund projects in Luxembourg.
Sources & methodology
Data on this page comes from Eurostat (27 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.
Last refreshed: 2026-06-30 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API