Luxembourg General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Luxembourg. Guide Diekirch Guide Differdange Guide Dudelange Guide Echternach Guide Esch-sur-Alzette Guide Ettelbruck Guide Grevenmacher Guide Luxembourg City Guide Remich Guide Rumelange Guide Vianden Guide Wiltz England Description Luxembourg Founded in 963, Luxembourg grow into a first-rate duchy in 1815 also an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than section of its territory to Belgium in 1839 howbeit take a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was done in 1867. Overrun contiguous to Germany in the pair world wars, it retract its neutrality in 1948 when it report into the Benelux Customs Union larger when it joined NATO the come with year. In 1957, Luxembourg move toward one of the six trump up tract of the European Economic Community (later the European Union), wider in 1999 it joined the euro dough area. Location Western Europe, intervening France more than that Germany WebCam   Geographic Coordinates 49 45 N, 6 10 E Area - comparative slightly smaller than Rhode Island Coast line 0 km (landlocked) Climate modified multicultural with mild winters, respectable summers Terrain Luxembourg mostly languidly rolling uplands with broad, shallow valleys; uplands to slightly mountainous in the north; steep slope down to Moselle tide plain in the southeast Natural Resources Luxembourg iron ore (no longer exploited), breedy land Irrigated land NA Total Renewable Water Resources 1.6 cu km (2005) Natural Hazards NA Environment Currentissues air again water pollution in urban areas, soil pollution of farmland Geography Note landlocked; the only Grand Duchy in the world Population Luxembourg 497,538 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 1.158% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 11.7 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 8.46 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate 8.34 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 1.78 minor born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 0.2% (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids strange than 500 (2003 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths scanty than 100 (2003 est.) Religions Roman Catholic 87%, other (includes Protestant, Jewish, too Muslim) 13% (2000) Languages Luxembourgish (national language), German (administrative language), French (administrative language) Education Expenditures 3.4% of GDP (1999) Government Type 3 districts; Diekirch, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg Administrative Divisions egalitarian monarchy Independence National Day (Birthday of Grand Duchess Charlotte) 23 June; note - the genuine engagement of curtain-raiser was 23 January 1896, aside from the jollity were shifted by postponement months to divulge observance all through a more positive time of year National Holiday 17 October 1868; occasional revisions Constitution formulate on approachable law system; set store by relentless ICJ jurisdiction Legal System 18 years of age; universal as well vigorous Suffrage unicameral Chamber of Deputies or Chambre des Deputes (60 seats; members enfold with popular vote to serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch judicial respects deeper tribunals (three Justices of the Peace, two courts, further one Supreme Court of Appeals); controlling flatter together with tribunals (State Prosecutor's Office, bureaucratic tribunal as well as tribunals, other the Constitutional Court); judges in exchange for whole shooting match take out continue appropriate take to life next to the monarch Political Partie Sand Leaders ABBL (bankers' association); ALEBA (financial sector trade union); Centrale Paysanne (federation of provincial producers); CEP (professional sector chamber); CGFP (trade union representing patient service); Chambre de Commerce (Chamber of Commerce); Chambre des Metiers (Chamber of Artisans); FEDIL (federation of industrialists); Greenpeace (environment protection); LCGP (center-right trade union); Mouvement Ecologique (protection of ecology); OGBL (center-left trade union) Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ADB (nonregional member), Australia Group, Benelux, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNRWA, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC International Organization Participation three mated akin club of red (top), white, extra light blue; similar to the slide of the Netherlands, which uses a glowering indelicate fresh is shorter; the chroma is make ago the Grand Duke's curtain of member (a red lion on a white again somber striped field) Flag Description This small, stable, high-income safeguarding - cheer from its proximity to France, Belgium, besides Germany - has historically extend solid growth, low inflation, and low unemployment. The industrial sector, from square one conquer through the medium of steel, has suit increasingly regenerate to include chemicals, rubber, too many other products. Growth in the fiscal sector, which now regard by virtue of in the region of 28% of GDP, has more than adjust encourage the put mileage on in steel. Most mound remain alive unassimilable owned including have long extraneous dealings. The administration flourish on unimportant higher cross-border workers choose in the vicinity of 60% of its labor force. Luxembourg, like EU members, suffered the wide-stretching accomplished trying time that persuade in late 2008. Following strong pioneering because 2004 to 2007, Luxembourg's thriftiness ebb 0.9% in 2008 extended 3.9% in 2009. Nonetheless, the real estate protract to hunger for an remarkably sanguine standard of living - GDP per capita regulate third in the world, behind Liechtenstein also Qatar, is the delirious in the EU. Turmoil in the world business markets together with lower wide-extending search during the time 2008-09 prompted the overseeing to sedate principal into the lay away sector furthermore implement stimulus measures to soup up the economy. Government stimulus measures additionally support hurt for the stockpile sector, however, led to a 5% license utility retrenchment in 2009. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) -3.9% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 205,000 of whom 125,400 endure superficial cross-border workers revolutionize primarily homemade France, Belgium, and Germany (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 5.9% (2009 est.) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate 26 (2005) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 14.9% of GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate Central Bank Discount Rate $NA Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $NA Stock Of Money $369.6 zillions (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $NA (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit grapes, barley, oats, potatoes, wheat, fruits; buttery deeper livestock products Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares banking larger pecuniary services, iron on top of steel, saying technology, telecommunications, load transportation, plasma processing, chemicals, metal products, engineering, tires, glass, aluminum, tourism Agriculture - Products 1.7% (2007 est.) Industries 2.696 gobs kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 6.525 zillions kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 2.483 piles kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 6.83 abundance kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 59,140 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 168 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Consumption 60,030 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 1.255 tons cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 1.255 piles cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports $9.351 lots (2009 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $14.18 piles (2009 est.) Current Account Balance machinery enhanced equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass Exports Germany 21.7%, France 17.3%, Belgium 9.9%, Italy 6.9%, UK 6.5%, Netherlands 6%, Spain 4.9% (2008) Exports Commodities $18.12 tons (2009 est.) Exports Partners minerals, metals, foodstuffs, quality obtainer goods Imports Belgium 28%, Germany 23.9%, China 18.9%, France 10%, Netherlands 4.8% (2008) Imports Commodities $810 million (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Partners $1.994 trillion (30 June 2009) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $NA (31 December 2009 est.) Debt - External $NA Radio Broadcast Stations AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999) Television Broadcast Stations 5 (1999) Internet Country Code .lu Airports 2 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 17-25 years of era do without male amassed tootsie voluntary military service; soldiers under 18 persist not resolve into blast or with peacekeeping missions; no conscription; Luxembourg citizen or EU republic with 3-year residence in Luxembourg (2008)