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Luxembourg

EDRIX Score

6.11

Tier

Specialized Contender

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 6.04 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 4.61 / 10
Private sector resilience 6.03 / 10
Public sector resilience 7.78 / 10

Raw metrics

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

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 4.03
Linux share on desktops and laptops 3.75%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 17.70%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.467
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 0.778

See the surveyed domains and their hosting details →

Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Luxembourg gains three places to ninth at 6.11 (June: 5.79, 12th). The whole gain is on the private-sector pillar, up 1.50 to 6.03, on a small sample: only 246 .lu domains are measured, so a handful of migrations move the score. Developer density is good (4.03, 9th) and public-sector hosting solid (7.78, 7th): www.vdl.lu is fully domestic, while gouvernement.lu and monarchie.lu are hosted and mailed by the state's CTIE but resolved by COLT, a UK operator.

Strengths

  • Developer ecosystem (6.04, 9th).
  • Public sector (7.78, 7th), with the web and email of all three official sites in Luxembourg.

Weaknesses

  • DNS of the government and grand-ducal sites at COLT (UK); both rate 0.67.
  • Private-sector hosting (6.03, 13th). 46% of the sample is hosted outside the EU (Cloudflare 20%, Amazon 11%); 55% of email is non-EU. Domestic hosting is led by OVH, RESTENA and POST.
  • Grassroots adoption (4.61, 11th), with desktop Linux at 3.75%.

Outlook

With a sample this small, Luxembourg's rank will keep swinging with a few sites. Moving two DNS zones from COLT to a Luxembourg or EU operator is the one structural gain within reach.

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Historical reference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.