Editing Luxembourg (section)

=== Ethnicity ===
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|+Largest groups of immigrants (2025):<ref name="StatNat">{{cite web |title=Population par nationalités détaillées au 1er janvier |url=https://lustat.statec.lu/vis?fs[0]=Th%C3%A8mes%2C1%7CPopulation%20et%20emploi%23B%23%7CEtat%20de%20la%20population%23B1%23&pg=0&fc=Th%C3%A8mes&df[ds]=ds-release&df[id]=DF_B1113&df[ag]=LU1&df[vs]=1.2&pd=2015%2C2025&dq=.A |website=LUSTAT Data Explorer |access-date=13 May 2025 |language=French}}</ref>
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# {{Flagicon|Portugal}} [[Portuguese in Luxembourg|Portugal]] (89,671)
# {{Flagicon|France}} France (49,185)
# {{Flagicon|Italy}} Italy (25,374)
# {{Flagicon|Belgium}} Belgium (18,582)
# {{Flagicon|Germany}} Germany (12,288)
# {{Flagicon|Spain}} Spain (9,917)
# {{Flagicon|Romania}} Romania (6,898)
# {{Flagicon|Ukraine}} Ukraine (5,597)
# {{Flagicon|India}} India (5,474)
# {{Flagicon|Poland}} Poland (5,150)

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The people of Luxembourg are called [[Luxembourgers]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eu2005.lu/en/savoir_lux/societe_tradition/lux_type/index.php |title=Luxembourg Presidency – Being a Luxembourger |publisher=Eu2005.lu |date=29 December 2004 |access-date=25 April 2010 |archive-date=30 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230111243/http://www.eu2005.lu/en/savoir_lux/societe_tradition/lux_type/index.php |url-status=live }}</ref> The immigrant population increased in the 20th century due to the arrival of immigrants from Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, and Portugal; the last comprised the largest group. In 2013 about 88,000 Luxembourg inhabitants possessed [[Portuguese Luxembourger|Portuguese]] nationality.<ref>{{cite web |title=Population par sexe et par nationalité (x 1 000) 1981, 1991, 2001–2013 |url=http://www.statistiques.public.lu/stat/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=384&IF_Language=fra&MainTheme=2&FldrName=1 |publisher=Le portail des Statistiques |access-date=9 April 2014 |archive-date=29 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329200943/https://statistiques.public.lu/stat/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=384&IF_Language=fra&MainTheme=2&FldrName=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2025, there were 681,973 permanent residents, 47% of which were of foreign nationals; the largest foreign national groups were the Portuguese, comprising 13.2% of the total population, followed by the French (7.2%), Italians (3.7%), Belgians (2.7%) and Germans (1.8%). Another 7.2% were of another EU nationality, 3.5% were non-EU European, and 7.2% were from outside Europe.<ref name="StatNat"/>

Since the beginning of the [[Yugoslav wars]], Luxembourg has seen many immigrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia. Annually, over 10,000 new immigrants arrive in Luxembourg, mostly from the EU states, as well as Eastern Europe. In 2000 there were 162,000 immigrants in Luxembourg, accounting for 37% of the total population. There were an estimated 5,000 illegal immigrants in Luxembourg in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/papers/Country%20Case%20Luxembourg.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050430134727/http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/papers/Country%20Case%20Luxembourg.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2005 |title=The Regularisation of Unauthorised Migrants: Literature Survey and Country Case Studies – Regularisation programmes in Luxembourg |access-date=2 September 2006 |author=Amanda Levinson |publisher=Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford }}</ref>