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Geography

Location: Western Europe, between France and Germany

Area:
total area: 2,586 sq km
land area: 2,586 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Rhode Island

Land boundaries: total 359 km, Belgium 148 km, France 73 km, Germany 138 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 404,660 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 18% (female 35,372; male 36,645)
15-64 years: 68% (female 136,960; male 137,792)
65 years and over: 14% (female 35,774; male 22,117)

Population growth rate: 0.57% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.61 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.42 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 2.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.95 years
male: 73.31 years
female: 80.75 years

Total fertility rate: 1.65 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Celtic base (with French and German blend), Portuguese, Italian, and European (guest and worker residents)

Religions: Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant and Jewish 3%

Languages: Luxembourgisch, German, French, English

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
conventional short form: Luxembourg

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Luxembourg

Independence: 1839

Constitution: 17 October 1868, occasional revisions


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $9.2 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.6%

National product per capita: $22,830

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.6%

Unemployment rate: 2.4%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,238,750 kW
production: 1.374 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,395 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.