that only 36% of all new mothers were of Luxembourgish nationality. This places the country at the top of the EU chart with 64% children birthed by foreign-born mothers, followed by Cyprus (39%). In Austria, Malta and Belgium, one in three mothers wasn’t from the country she gave birth in. At the other end of the ranking were Lithuania (3%), Bulgaria and Slovakia (2%).

g, 47.1% are non-nationals, with Portuguese making up the largest single group of foreigners (14.5% of the population), followed by France (7.6%) and Italy 3.7%. Non-EU nationals make up 6.1% of the population.

Luxembourg-based families had 1.34 children on average in 2019, which increased to 1.36 in 2020 and 1.38 in 2021. Despite this minimal growth, the country’s population has kept growing through a steady influx of immigrants. Net migration last year was at 10,667, resulting in 645,397 inhabitants in total.

The grand duchy has been struggling to accommodate the growing population. Housing prices last year, largely due to a lack of options among growing demand. But the country also struggles in other areas. , the country’s northern hospital group, for example, announced that the maternity ward in Ettelbruck would close as it did not have enough paediatricians specialising in neonatology to answer the existing demand.

, the hospital group had announced that thanks to the support of the CHL group, the maternity ward would be reopened.

With its birthrate, Luxembourg scored below the European Union average of 1.5.