Luxembourg, in 2020, had 1,880 farms, according to data from the European Union’s statistics bureau Eurostat. Belgium counted 36,000, while Germany had 262,560 and France had 393,030. The EU overall counted 9m farms. Here are a few key figures extracted from Eurostat’s new .

87.2% are family farms

Roughly 7 out of 8 (87.2%) farms in Luxembourg are family farms, said Eurostat, in line with the EU average (87.8%). This is the highest figure when compared to the surrounding countries: 81% of farms in Germany are family farms and 79.7% of farms in Belgium are family farms. This is only the case for just over half (54.3%) of farms in France, which is the lowest figure in the EU.

17.8% of farm managers are women 

Around 1 out of 6 (17.8%) of Luxembourg farm managers are women, said Eurostat. This proportion is higher in France (21.4%) but lower in Belgium (14.8%) and in Germany (10.8%). In Lithuania, 44.9% of farm managers are women, followed closely by Latvia (44.8%). The EU average in 2020 stood at 31.6%.

1 in 10 are young managers

According to Eurostat data, 10.4% of farm managers in Luxembourg are younger than 35 years of age. The figure in Luxembourg is higher than compared to neighbouring countries: it’s 9.7% in France, 7.6% in Germany and 6.3% in Belgium.

In fact, it’s one of the highest in the EU: only Estonia (10.4%), Poland (11%), Slovakia (11%) and Austria (13%) have the same or higher proportions of young farm managers than Luxembourg. The EU average stands at 6.5%.

53.1% have full agricultural training

More than half of all farm managers in Luxembourg had “full agricultural training,” said Eurostat data. This exceeds the EU average of 10.2% and is by far the highest when looking at Luxembourg’s neighbours: 38.5% of farm managers in France had full agricultural training; the figure drops to 22.5% in Belgium and 18.8% in Germany.

Only the Netherlands had a higher percentage of farm managers with full agricultural training (62.6%).

148,000 tonnes of cereals

Luxembourg in 2023 produced 148,000 tonnes of cereals. It’s a small grain in the bucket when compared to what was produced by Belgium (2.8m tonnes), Germany (42.5m tonnes) and France, who, with 63.8m tonnes, was the top producer of cereals in the EU.

Bovine and pig population

The grand duchy held 0.3% of the EU’s total bovine animal population in 2023 and 0.1% of the pig livestock population. Belgium had 3.1% of the EU’s total bovine population and 4.1% of the pig livestock population; France was responsible for 22.8% of the bovine population and 8.9% of the pig livestock population; and Germany held 14.7% of the bovine animal population and 16% of the pig livestock population.