Luxembourg for Business together with the industry, reveals a comprehensive listing of facts and figures about Luxembourg, one of the digital champions in Europe.

Luxembourg for Business – proud to promote ICT in collaboration with the Media and Communication Service of the Ministry of State, the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade and ICTluxembourg released out a factbook about the ICT industry in Luxembourg. The publication intends to present Luxembourg’s positioning in the global ICT market to people looking for trustful benchmarks about Luxembourg.

“Luxembourg has been thriving to put itself at the forefront of communications technologies and innovation development for many years, explained Luc Frieden, Minister for Communications and Media and Etienne Schneider, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade in the Luxembourg and ICT : a snapshot. Both public and private actors invest boldly into ultra-high-speed Internet connections and state-of-the-art data centres in order to build a solid ground for a prosperous digital economy in the very heart of Europe. The recent establishment of many international companies in Luxembourg confirms the efficiency of our strategic positioning.

We hope that you will find the data presented in this booklet informative and useful. And now, we’ll let the facts speak for themselves!”, the Ministers said.

The aim of the brochure is to provide a snapshot of the ICT sector in Luxembourg based upon the latest statistics and benchmarks available, without pretending to be exhaustive. The data sources are key national and international organisations that were considered representative of Luxembourg’s progress in the digital society.

A voluntary choice was made in the selection of countries that Luxembourg (LU) is compared with as far as data are available. Besides Luxembourg’s direct neighbours Belgium (BE), France (FR) and Germany (DE), the following countries have been chosen as they are considered the most relevant ICT nations worldwide: Ireland (IE), Japan (JP), the Netherlands (NL), South Korea (KR), Switzerland (CH), the United Kingdom (UK) and the USA (US). For a better comprehension and interpretation, reference is sometimes made to other countries than the ones mentioned above and their data may not necessarily appear in the tables or figures.