Editing Liechtenstein (section)

== Demographics ==
{{Main|Demographics of Liechtenstein}}
[[File:Liechtenstein asv2022-10 img02 Vaduz Aussicht beim Schloss.jpg|thumb|Vaduz, Liechtenstein]]
With a population of 39,315 as of 31 December 2021,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statistikportal.li/de/themen/bevoelkerung/bevoelkerungsstand|title=Bevölkerungsstand: Bevölkerungsstand per 31. Dezember 2021|language=de|publisher=Amt für Statistik Fürstentum Liechtenstein|access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> Liechtenstein is [[List of European countries by population|Europe's fourth-smallest country]] after [[Vatican City]], [[San Marino]] and [[Monaco]]. Its population is primarily [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]]-speaking, although one third is foreign-born, primarily German speakers from [[Germany]], [[Austria]], and [[Switzerland]], along with other Swiss, Italians, and [[Turkish people|Turks]]. Foreign-born people make up two-thirds of the country's workforce.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WT/TPR/S/280 • Switzerland and Liechtenstein |url=http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/s280_sum_e.pdf |access-date=26 January 2015 |publisher=WTO}}</ref>

Liechtensteiners have an average life expectancy at birth of 82.0 years, subdividing as male: 79.8 years, female: 84.8 years (2018 est.). The infant mortality rate is 4.2 per 1,000 live births, according to 2018 estimates.

=== Languages ===
The official language is German, spoken by 92% of the population as their main language in 2020. 73% of Liechtenstein's population speak an [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]] [[dialect]] of German at home that is highly divergent from [[Standard German]] but closely related to dialects spoken in neighbouring regions such as Switzerland and [[Vorarlberg]], Austria.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statistikportal.li/statistikportal/publications/111-volkszaehlung/2020/01/1/111.2020.01_01_vz-2020-erste-ergebnisse.pdf|title=Volkszählung 2020 - Erste Ergebnisse|language=de|publisher=Amt für Statistik Fürstentum Liechtenstein|access-date=17 July 2022|archive-date=17 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717101739/https://www.statistikportal.li/statistikportal/publications/111-volkszaehlung/2020/01/1/111.2020.01_01_vz-2020-erste-ergebnisse.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In [[Triesenberg]], a [[Walser German]] dialect promoted by the municipality is spoken. [[Swiss Standard German]] is also understood and spoken by most Liechtensteiners.

=== Religion ===
{{Main|Religion in Liechtenstein}}
[[File:Liechtenstein asv2022-10 img21 Vaduz Kathedrale StFlorin.jpg|thumb|upright|St. Florin Catholic Cathedral in Vaduz]]

According to the [[Constitution of Liechtenstein]], [[Catholicism]] is its official [[state religion]]:

{{Blockquote|text=The Catholic Church is the State Church and as such shall enjoy the full protection of the State |author=[[Constitution of Liechtenstein]]<ref name="Temperman2010">{{Cite book |last=Jeroen Temperman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Khag6tbsIn4C&pg=PA44 |title=State-Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law: Towards a Right to Religiously Neutral Governance |date=30 May 2010 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-18148-9 |pages=44–45 |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref>}}

Liechtenstein offers protection to adherents of all religions, and considers the "religious interests of the people" a priority of the government.<ref name="Temperman2010" /> In Liechtenstein's schools, although exceptions are allowed, religious education in Catholicism or [[Protestantism]] (either [[Lutheran]] or [[Calvinist]], or both) is legally required.<ref name="Piano2009">{{Cite book |last=Aili Piano |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZVhuV7h5hwC&pg=PA426 |title=Freedom in the World 2009: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties |date=30 September 2009 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-0122-4 |page=426 |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> [[Tax exemption]] is granted by the government to religious organizations.<ref name="Piano2009" /> According to the [[Pew Research Center]], social conflict caused by religious hostilities is low in Liechtenstein, and so is government restriction on the practice of religion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Global Restrictions on Religion |url=http://www.pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/restrictions/restrictionsfullreport.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117012234/http://www.pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/restrictions/restrictionsfullreport.pdf |archive-date=17 January 2013 |access-date=3 August 2017 |publisher=Pew Research Center}}</ref>

According to the 2010 census, 85.8% of the total population were Christian, of whom 75.9% adhered to the Catholic faith, constituted in the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vaduz|Catholic Archdiocese of Vaduz]], while 9.6% were either [[Protestant]], mainly organized in the [[Evangelical Church in Liechtenstein]] (a [[United church]], Lutheran & Reformed) and the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Liechtenstein]], or [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox]], mainly organized in the Christian-Orthodox Church.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aktuell :: Orthodoxie |url=http://www.orthodoxie.li |access-date=26 October 2018 |publisher=www.orthodoxie.li |language=de}}</ref> There is a small community of 30 Jewish people who attend a synagogue in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liechtenstein |url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/Liechtenstein/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=United States Department of State |language=en-US}}</ref> The largest minority religion is [[Islam]] (5.4% of the total population).<ref name="r2">{{Cite web |title=Volkszählung 2010 |url=http://www.llv.li/files/as/pdf-llv-as-vz_2010_bd1 |access-date=3 August 2017 |website=Llv.li}}</ref>