🇱🇺 Luxembourg Politics - Governance, Freedom & Democracy

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🇱🇺 Luxembourg LU / LUX #167

Nomad Score 59.0

Cities 9

Region European Union, Francophone, Remote Work Friendly Countries, Europe, Europe, Western Europe

Currency EUR

📊 GOVERNANCE AT A GLANCE

Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

UN Member Yes

Independent Yes

CPI Score (2026) 78/100

Press Freedom (2025) 83.0/100 #13

Electoral Democracy (2025) 0.869

HDI 0.922

Regional Blocs EU

🛡 SAFETY & SECURITY

Homicide Rate (2022) 1.5/100k

Traffic Deaths (2019) 4.1/100k

Military Spending (2024) 1.0% of GDP

🏛 GOVERNMENT & LEADERS

Government Type Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Title	Name
Monarchy of Luxembourg	Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Prime Minister of Luxembourg	Luc Frieden

💰 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX

CPI Score (2026) 78 / 100

Interpretation Low corruption

Source: Transparency International / Corruption Insights API. Higher scores = less corruption.

📰 PRESS FREEDOM INDEX

Overall Score (2025) 83.0 / 100

Global Rank #13 / 180

Rank Change -2 vs previous year

RSF Zone UE Balkans

Political #12 83.3

Economic #17 68.0

Legal #28 80.9

Social #7 86.4

Safety #1 96.6

Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Higher scores = better press freedom.

📊 PRESS FREEDOM DIMENSIONS

Five dimensions of press freedom tracked over time. Higher = better.

🗳 DEMOCRACY INDEX

Electoral (2025) 0.869

Liberal 0.777

Participatory 0.556

Deliberative 0.824

Egalitarian 0.810

Source: V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy), CC-BY-SA. Scale: 0 (least democratic) to 1 (most democratic).

📋 PRESS FREEDOM HISTORICAL DATA

Year	Score	Rank	Political	Economic	Legal	Social	Safety
2025	83.0	13	83.3	68.0	80.9	86.4	96.6
2024	83.8	11	87.7	71.5	77.6	85.3	96.8
2023	82.0	20	87.4	71.9	76.8	82.1	91.7
2022	79.8	21	82.9	66.3	72.9	88.7	88.1
2021	82.4	20	-	-	-	-	100.0
2020	84.5	17	-	-	-	-	100.0
2019	84.3	17	-	-	-	-	100.0
2018	85.3	17	-	-	-	-	100.0
2017	85.3	15	-	-	-	-	100.0
2016	85.6	15	-	-	-	-	100.0
2015	86.4	19	-	-	-	-	100.0
2014	93.3	4	-	-	-	-	-
2013	93.3	4	-	-	-	-	-
2012	-7.0	7	-	-	-	-	-
2010	4.0	15	-	-	-	-	-
2009	4.0	20	-	-	-	-	-
2008	1.5	1	-	-	-	-	-

Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index