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Total population: 576,000 inhabitants (1 January 2016)
Population density: 207.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (2013)
Demographic growth: 0.23%
Life expectancy: 80.2 for men, 84.8 for women (2013)
Number of private households: 208,565 (2011 population census)
Population census: every ten years, the last census having taken place in February 2011
Religion: most of the population is Roman Catholic. The Grand Duchy has been a diocese since 1870 and an archbishopric since 1988. The most important pilgrimages are the 'Oktav', the hopping procession of Echternach (on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List), and the pilgrimage to Our Lady of Fatima in Wiltz. An agreement between the Luxembourgish government and the religious communities signed in January 2015 is going to reform the relationship between the state and these communities.
Proportion of Luxembourg nationals in the total population: 53.3% (1 January 2016)
Proportion of foreigners: 46.7% (1 January 2016) Foreigners of more than 170 nationalities live in the Grand Duchy.
