Population and employment
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Population structure | Labour market| Population movement | Demographic projections | Census data
Population structure
The ten-yearly population censuses allow the figures on the composition of the population to be established by sex, age, nationality and commune of residence. Between two censuses, the population at 1st January of year x is assessed by adding the natural (births-deaths) and migratory (arrivals-departures) balances for the year to the population at 1st January of year x-1. The same method is applied for the split by age at 1st January and the total number of people by nationality.
Data – Data base LUSTAT
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Labour market
The unemployment figures refer to registered unemployment as defined by the National Employment Agency (ADEM). Interactive tables on characteristics (sex, age groups, nationality, level of education, period of unemployment) on jobseekers registered at ADEM and job offers, placements are available here (in French only) or via the Open Data Portal.
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Population movement
We differentiate between natural movement, which encompasses civil status events (births, deaths, marriages, divorces) and migratory movement. The latter is subdivided into internal migratory movement, which involves the migration of people of Luxembourg or foreign nationality inside the country, and external migratory movement encompassing all people of Luxembourg or foreign nationality who come into the Grand Duchy with the intention of settling there and all people of Luxembourg or foreign nationality who leave the Grand Duchy to live elsewhere.
Data – Data base LUSTAT
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Demographic projections
STATEC produces population projections for Luxembourg.
Population projections made by STATEC are disseminated by sex and age.
They simulate, up to the projection horizon, the number of men and women on the basis of hypotheses on the evolution of the three components of population variations (component method): fertility, mortality and migration.
Based on these population projections, STATEC also produces projections of the number of private households as well as projections of potential housing demand.
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Census data
Censuses enable the establishment of socio-demographic statistics that can be broken down by territorial unit (municipality and locality).Through the information collected it is possible to analyze the structure of the population (by age, sex, nationality), the situation in relation to economic life (profession, sector of activity, etc.), the level of education, the use of languages, household housing conditions and the daily movements of workers and students.
Population censuses are carried out every ten years.
Until 2011, they were performed in a “classic” way, using questionnaires distributed and collected by census enumerators.
In the last census (November 8th, 2021), STATEC focuses more on digital solutions, in particular by offering the possibility of responding via Guichet.lu and by retrieving when possible data directly from administrative registers.
Data - Data base LUSTAT
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