More than ten years after the last census, it is time to find out precisely how many people live in the Grand Duchy and how much housing there is in the country. The census starts on 1 June.
At the last census in 2011, approximately 521,300 people were counted in the country. According to Statec data, one year ago the country had 626,108 inhabitants. How many are there now? And how many homes and buildings have been built in the last ten years?
These are questions to which Statec should find an answer on 21 June. This Friday, the government council adopted the draft Grand-Ducal regulation which sets the general census of the population, housing and buildings of the Grand Duchy for 1 June 2021.
The data will be collected over three weeks, via online forms on guichet.lu. In addition, 3,500 surveyors will go directly to the households with the questionnaire. The questionnaires are written in five languages: Luxembourgish, French, German, Portuguese and English.
The ten-year review put forward by Statec was initially scheduled to take place in February 2021. Not only does it reveal the number of residents, but it also provides detailed data on the socio-economic situation and housing conditions of the population living in the Grand Duchy.
Results will not be available until early 2023. This is the 37th time since 1839 that this large-scale census will be conducted.
