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Luxembourg

EDRIX Score

5.79

Tier

Specialized Contender

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 6.14 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 4.72 / 10
Private sector resilience 4.53 / 10
Public sector resilience 7.78 / 10

Raw metrics

The underlying values before min-max normalization across the EU27.

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 4.02
Linux share on desktops and laptops 3.33%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 18.32%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.416
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 0.778

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Luxembourg's June 2026 score of 6.89 reflects a focused profile: a perfect 10/10 on Public Sector Health (all official government domains EU-hosted) combined with a strong developer ecosystem (6.14) driven by its financial-services tech sector. The countering weakness is grassroots — Linux desktop share at 3.33% is the lowest in the leadership tier and below the EU27 mean.

Strengths

  • Perfect Public Sector Health — every surveyed official domain (head of state, government, Luxembourg City) hosted on EU infrastructure.
  • Strong per-capita developer density — 4.02, top-7 in EU27, reflecting Luxembourg's outsized financial-tech sector relative to population.
  • Above-average Sovereign Browser share — 18.32% Firefox + Opera.

Weaknesses

  • Linux desktop share of 3.33% — the lowest in the leadership tier, suggesting limited grassroots open-source culture among end users.
  • Private-sector raw rating of 0.51 — about 49% of scanned .lu domains rely on non-EU infrastructure; the financial sector's heavy use of US cloud providers is visible.

Outlook

Luxembourg's position is shaped by a handful of sectoral concentrations. The financial-tech ecosystem is a structural strength that won't shift; future gains will come from broader workforce Linux/browser adoption and from private-sector EU hosting. Watch grassroots adoption over the coming year.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Luxembourg was an "emerging" nation with a moderately strong and unique strategic position as a trusted data hub for Europe, but an underdeveloped formal policy for open source.

2024 progression

Luxembourg's incentives have focused on emerging technologies and cybersecurity. The Clausen Project, a key new initiative, will establish a national OSPO and contribute open source tools for cybersecurity, linking OSS to its strategic goals.

Historical reference

OSOR Fact Sheet (PDF, 2024) — the country-level Open Source policy report used by the retired Public Policy pillar in EDRIX 1.0.