Liechtenstein

People39.6K2023

Founded 1806 · Official language German

Portrait

Population39.6K2023
Population density2492023
Median age44.2 yrs2023
Life expectancy83.6 yrs2023
Fertility rate1.542023
Human Development0.942023
Online population98.3%2024
Electricity access100.0%2024
CO₂ per person3.32024
Forest cover37.4%2025
Literacy rate98.5%1950

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What stands out here

Researchers in R&D: 18.1K in 2023 — the 1st-highest of the 129 countries reporting, against a world median of 758.
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Secure internet servers: 60.3K in 2024; twelve years earlier it was 9.8K.
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Secondary enrollment — 41.4 percentage points higher than the world's: 118.7% vs 77.3%, 2021 vs 2024.
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Biodiversity hotspots protected — 53.9 percentage points higher than the world's: 98.5% vs 44.6%, 2024.
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Health spending — 417% higher than the world's: $9,795 vs $1,891, 2023.
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Adolescent fertility — 95% lower than the world's: 1.8 vs 38.3, 2024.
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What has changed

Press freedom: 19.5 in 2021; eight years earlier it was 7.3.
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+165% · 2013→2021
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Fixed telephone lines: 24.8 in 2024; twelve years earlier it was 50.5.
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−50% · 2012→2024
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CO₂ per person: 3.3 in 2024; twelve years earlier it was 5.1.
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People & society

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International migrants — 65.7 percentage points higher than the world's: 69.4% vs 3.7%, 2024. Composed automatically from the sourced figures on this page.

Population39.6K2023
Median age44.2 yrs2023
City dwellers14.6%2025
Population density2492023
Net migration1942025
Fertility rate1.542023
Human Development

Health & education

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Survival to 65 (men): 92.1% in 2024 — the 6th-highest of the 194 countries reporting, against a world median of 71.9%. Composed automatically from the sourced figures on this page.

Life expectancy83.6 yrs2023
Health spending$9,7952023
Education spending2.6%2011
Literacy rate98.5%1950
Secondary enrollment118.7%2021

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Work & money

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Nomor has 14 of the 64 work & money figures for Liechtenstein. Composed automatically from the sourced figures on this page.

All 14 work & money figures Nomor has for Liechtenstein

Nomor holds no VAT, income-tax band, fuel-tax or property-tax figures for any country.
Figure	Value	Year	Source
Online populationShare of the population that used the internet at least once in the last three months, on any device.	98.3%	2024	ITU via World Bank
Total tax burdenEverything the state collects in a year — income taxes, VAT, social contributions — as a share of the country's GDP. Higher means a bigger public sector.	28.1%	2020	UNU-WIDER GRD
Corporate taxThe statutory rate companies pay on their profits, combining central and local government levies.	12.5%	2018	OECD Corporate Tax Statistics
Tourist arrivalsOvernight visitors arriving from abroad per year. Each trip counts separately, so one frequent traveller can register several arrivals (UN Tourism).

Land & energy

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Safely managed sanitation — 37.8 percentage points higher than the world's: 96.3% vs 58.5%, 2024. Composed automatically from the sourced figures on this page.

Forest cover37.4%2025
CO₂ per person3.32024
Agricultural land32.3%2023
Protected land44.8%2025

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Every land & energy figure Nomor holds for Liechtenstein, with the year and the source it came from.
Figure	Value	Year	World rank	Source
Electricity accessShare of people with at least basic electricity — enough for lighting and charging a phone ~4 hours a day.

Inside Liechtenstein

Balzers
Eschen
Gamprin
Mauren
Planken
Ruggell
Schaan
Schellenberg
Triesen
Triesenberg
Vaduz

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What we can’t tell you about Liechtenstein

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Income tax brackets · Sales / VAT rate · Tax on gas · Property tax · Minimum wage · Average home price · Average rent · Average school cost · Electricity price · Social benefits · Education cost · Electricity mix

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GDP per person · Inflation · Unemployment · Work hours per year · Income inequality · Extreme poverty · Military spending · Exports · GDP growth · Women in the workforce · Median income · Labor force participation · Youth not in work or school · Youth unemployment · Savings rate · Private-sector credit · High-tech exports · Vulnerable employment · Current account balance · Remittances received · Remittance cost · Investment rate · Trade openness · Employment in agriculture · Multidimensional poverty · Financial account ownership · ICT service exports · Fuel exports · Manufactured exports · Foreign currency reserves · Government consumption spending · Patent applications · Bank branches · ATMs · Bank depositors · Bank borrowers · Employment-to-population ratio · Air passengers carried · Container port traffic · Rail network length · Tourism receipts · Tourism expenditure abroad · Foreign patent applications · IP royalty receipts · IP royalty payments · Air freight carried · Internet use, women · Internet use, men · Employment in industry · Employment in services · Healthy diet cost · Road deaths · Corruption perceptions · Life satisfaction · Women in parliament · Electoral democracy · Voter turnout · Human rights index · Income share, richest 10% · Income share, poorest 10% · Bribery incidence · Women in senior management · Urban primacy · Doctors · Hospital beds · Infant mortality · Alcohol consumption · Tobacco use · Obesity · Suicide rate · Years of schooling · Maternal mortality · Child mortality · Skilled birth attendance · Low birthweight · Measles vaccination · Undernourishment · HIV prevalence · Nurses & midwives · Anemia in women · Tuberculosis incidence · Child stunting · Trained teachers, primary · Trained teachers, secondary · Malaria incidence · DTP3 immunization · Calorie supply · Neonatal mortality · Youth literacy · Meat supply · Food insecurity · Child wasting · Polio immunization · Contraceptive use · Deaths from infectious disease · Deaths from chronic disease · Hepatitis B immunization · PISA maths score · PISA reading score · Renewable energy · Air pollution (PM2.5) · Clean cooking access · Energy use per person · Natural disaster deaths · Electric car sales · Renewable electricity · Protected ocean area · Water stress · Nuclear power · Fossil-fuel electricity · Freshwater resources per person · Electricity use per person · Air pollution deaths · Solar power · Wind power · Hydropower · Energy import dependency · Urban slum population · Power grid losses · Cereal yield · Agricultural water use

Where these numbers come from

Nomor shows the latest year each source publishes, and compares countries only within the same year window.

UNESCO UIS via World Bank9 figures
WHO/UNICEF JMP via World Bank4 figures
World Bank / UN4 figures
ITU via World Bank3 figures
World Bank / UN World Population Prospects3 figures
Worldwide Governance Indicators, World Bank3 figures
Jones et al. (National Contributions to Climate Change) via Our World in Data2 figures
UN DESA Population Division via World Bank2 figures
UNESCO UIS2 figures
WHO via World Bank2 figures
World Bank / IEA (SDG 7.1.1)

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17 more people & society figures

Every people & society figure Nomor holds for Liechtenstein, with the year and the source it came from.
Figure	Value	Year	Source
Sex ratio at birthBoys born per 100 girls. Biology keeps this near 105 everywhere; persistent big deviations signal sex-selective practices.	116.3	2024	World Bank / UN
Homicide rateIntentional killings per 100,000 people per year — the most internationally comparable crime statistic (UNODC).	5.12	2021	UNODC
Prison populationPeople held in prison per 100,000 population, including pre-trial and remand detainees (World Prison Brief).	20.0	2024	ICPR World Prison Brief
Press freedomReporters Without Borders' assessment of press freedom from expert surveys and a count of abuses against journalists. On this pre-2022 scale a LOWER score means MORE freedom (0 ≈ best). It measures conditions for journalism, not press quality.	19.5	2021	Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Adolescent fertilityBirths per 1,000 women aged 15–19 per year — a standard indicator of adolescent reproductive health and, indirectly, of girls’ access to education and family planning.	1.8	2024	UN WPP via World Bank
Age at first marriageThe average age at which women who marry before age 50 first marry (the 'singulate mean age at marriage', calculated from marital-status data by age). It rises as education and economic independence for women increase.	29.9 yrs	2018	UN DESA Population Division via World Bank
Homicides by firearmThe annual number of intentional homicides where the weapon used was a firearm — a raw count, not adjusted for population, so larger countries will show bigger numbers even at a similar underlying rate (UNODC).	0	2016	UNODC via Our World in Data
Population growthHow much a country's population changed over the last year, as a percentage — the net result of births, deaths and migration combined. Negative values mean the population shrank.	1.4%	2025	World Bank / UN WPP
Age dependency ratioThe number of people too young (under 15) or too old (over 64) to typically work, per 100 people of working age (15–64). A rising ratio means more dependents per working-age person, whether from a young, growing population or an aging one.	55.3%	2025	World Bank / UN
Government effectivenessOne of the World Bank's six Worldwide Governance Indicators: perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and how independent it is from political pressure, and the credibility of the government's own policy commitments. Scored 0–100. Distinct from the corruption-perceptions score above, which asks specifically about bribery and misuse of public office rather than administrative competence.	84.3	2024	Worldwide Governance Indicators, World Bank
Rule of lawOne of the World Bank's six Worldwide Governance Indicators: perceptions of confidence in and abidance by the rules of society — contract enforcement, property rights, the police and the courts, and the likelihood of crime and violence. Scored 0–100. A broader institutional-quality measure than the homicide rate above, which counts one specific outcome rather than confidence in the system overall.	86.7	2024	Worldwide Governance Indicators, World Bank
Political stabilityOne of the World Bank's six Worldwide Governance Indicators: perceptions of the likelihood that a government will be destabilized or overthrown by unconstitutional or violent means, including politically motivated violence and terrorism. Scored 0–100.	92.9	2024	Worldwide Governance Indicators, World Bank
Birth rateLive births per 1,000 people in the population per year. Unlike the fertility rate above (children per woman, independent of age structure), the crude birth rate is pulled up or down by how many women of childbearing age a population actually has — a young population can show a high birth rate even at a moderate fertility rate (World Bank / UN).	8.4	2024	World Bank / UN
Death rateDeaths per 1,000 people in the population per year. Unlike life expectancy above (a hypothetical, age-standardized measure), the crude death rate reflects a population's actual age structure — an older population can show a higher death rate even where people are living longer than ever, simply because more of it has reached old age (World Bank / UN).	7.5	2024	World Bank / UN
Women in cabinetShare of ministerial or equivalent government positions (including deputy prime ministers) held by women — the executive-branch counterpart to the women-in-parliament figure above, which counts the legislature. The two can diverge: a country can appoint many women to cabinet while electing few to its legislature, or the other way around (Inter-Parliamentary Union & UN Women, Women in Politics).	40.0%	2025	IPU & UN Women via World Bank
International migrantsShare of a country's population, at mid-year, who were born in a country other than the one they live in (including refugees) — a snapshot of the accumulated stock of migrants living there today. Distinct from the net-migration figure above, which measures the recent flow (arrivals minus departures over the latest 5-year window) rather than the total stock built up over decades (UN DESA Population Division via World Bank).	69.4%	2024	UN DESA Population Division via World Bank
Prison overcrowdingThe number of people held in prison as a share of a country's official prison capacity. Above 100% means a prison system is holding more people than it was built for — a measure of strain on the justice system, distinct from the prison population rate elsewhere on this page, which measures the scale of incarceration relative to a country's population rather than how full its facilities are (World Prison Brief, ICPR, via Our World in Data).	40.0%	2024	World Prison Brief (ICPR) via Our World in Data

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Out-of-pocket health costsShare of a country's total health spending that patients pay directly out of pocket, rather than through insurance or government programs — higher shares mean more financial risk for the sick.	19.7%	2023	WHO via World Bank
Children out of schoolPrimary-school-age children who are not enrolled in primary or secondary school, as a share of that age group (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).	0.8%	2021	UNESCO UIS via World Bank
Tertiary enrollmentTotal enrollment in college or university, regardless of age, as a share of the population in the five years following secondary-school graduation — a "gross" ratio, so it can exceed 100%.	46.0%	2021	UNESCO UIS via World Bank
Pupil–teacher ratioThe average number of pupils per teacher in primary school. A lower ratio generally means more individual attention per student, though it says nothing about teacher quality.	7.8	2017	UNESCO UIS via World Bank
Government health spendingGovernment spending on health — public insurance schemes, government hospitals, subsidies — as a share of GDP. Distinct from total health spending (public plus private/out-of-pocket), which is not shown separately on this page (WHO Global Health Expenditure Database).	3.9%	2023	WHO via World Bank
Primary enrollmentTotal primary-school enrollment, regardless of age, as a share of the population that is officially primary-school age — a 'gross' ratio, so it can exceed 100% where older or younger students are enrolled (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).	102.1%	2021	UNESCO UIS via World Bank
Pre-primary enrollmentTotal enrollment in early-childhood or pre-primary education, regardless of age, as a share of the population that is officially pre-primary age — a 'gross' ratio, so it can exceed 100% where older or younger children are enrolled (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).	102.2%	2020	UNESCO UIS via World Bank
Diabetes prevalenceShare of adults aged 20–79 estimated to have diabetes (type 1 or type 2), from national surveys and studies compiled into a single comparable estimate (International Diabetes Federation, IDF Diabetes Atlas).	7.2%	2024	International Diabetes Federation via World Bank
Survival to 65 (women)The share of a cohort of newborn girls that would survive to age 65 if they experienced today's age-specific death rates for their whole life. Unlike life expectancy above (an average number of years), this is a single probability; unlike child mortality above, it captures survival across the whole adult lifespan rather than just early childhood (World Bank / UN World Population Prospects).	94.6%	2024	World Bank / UN World Population Prospects
Survival to 65 (men)The male counterpart to the female survival-to-65 figure above. The gap between the two is one of the most consistent patterns in global health — men have a higher death rate than women at almost every adult age, in almost every country (World Bank / UN World Population Prospects).	92.1%	2024	World Bank / UN World Population Prospects
Primary school gender parityThe ratio of girls to boys enrolled in primary school (gross enrollment). A value of 1.00 means equal enrollment; below 1 means fewer girls than boys are enrolled, above 1 means more girls than boys. Most countries sit close to parity at the primary level, which is part of why the secondary-level figure below is often the more revealing one (UNESCO Institute for Statistics via World Bank).	0.97	2020	UNESCO UIS via World Bank
Secondary school gender parityThe ratio of girls to boys enrolled in secondary school (gross enrollment). Some countries hold parity at the primary level above but see it widen or reverse at secondary — from early marriage, safety concerns, or the opportunity cost of girls' labor at home — so the two figures together show whether a gender gap opens up as children get older (UNESCO Institute for Statistics via World Bank).	0.85	2020	UNESCO UIS via World Bank

R&D spendingPublic and private spending on basic research, applied research and experimental development, as a share of GDP.	6.0%	2023		UNESCO via World Bank

Mobile subscriptionsPer 100 people	128.9	2024		ITU via World Bank

Broadband accessFixed broadband internet connections (cable, fibre, DSL) per 100 people — mobile-only connections are not counted (ITU).	50.0	2024		ITU via Our World in Data

Foreign direct investmentNet inflows of investment from abroad to acquire a lasting stake (10%+ of voting stock) in local businesses, as a share of GDP — new investment minus disinvestment.	-1303.1%	2018		IMF Balance of Payments via World Bank

Agriculture share of GDPThe contribution of farming, forestry and fishing to a country's economic output, as a share of GDP — a classic indicator of how much an economy still depends on primary-sector production versus industry and services.	0.2%	2023		World Bank national accounts

Researchers in R&DThe number of people (converted to full-time equivalents) working directly on research and development, per million population — a headcount complement to the R&D spending figure above, since a country can spend heavily on equipment and infrastructure with relatively few researchers, or vice versa.	18.1K	2023		UNESCO UIS via World Bank

Natural resource rentsThe combined value of oil, natural gas, coal, mineral and forest rents — the gap between what these resources sell for and the cost of extracting them — as a share of GDP. A rough gauge of how dependent an economy is on extracting and selling natural resources rather than other forms of production; oil- and mineral-rich economies can show double-digit shares while resource-poor economies show close to zero (World Bank, The Changing Wealth of Nations).	0.0%	2020		World Bank (Changing Wealth of Nations)

Secure internet serversThe number of servers using encrypted connections (SSL/TLS certificates), per 1 million people — a proxy for how much of a country's online commerce and services run on secure, modern infrastructure. Distinct from the internet-usage and broadband figures elsewhere on this page, which measure who is online, not how secure the infrastructure they connect to is (Netcraft Secure Server Survey via World Bank).	60.3K	2024		Netcraft Secure Server Survey via World Bank

Fixed telephone linesFixed (landline) telephone subscriptions per 100 people. Unlike the mobile subscriptions figure elsewhere on this page, this number has been falling almost everywhere for two decades as households switch to mobile-only — many lower-income countries never built out extensive landline networks at all and went straight to mobile, so a low number here can mean either decline from a past peak or a network that was largely skipped (ITU via World Bank).	24.8	2024		ITU via World Bank

Scientific & technical articlesScience-and-engineering publications counted per year — a selection of conference proceedings alongside peer-reviewed journal articles, indexed in Scopus and classified under the US National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics' Taxonomy of Disciplines, a broader and more current field list than 'journal articles in physics, biology, chemistry, math, engineering, tech and earth/space sciences' alone. The actual research-output dimension, distinct from the R&D-spending and researchers-in-R&D figures elsewhere on this page, which measure the money and people going into research rather than what comes out of it — a country can spend heavily on R&D without a proportional publication output, or the reverse (NSF Science & Engineering Indicators via World Bank).	51.2	2023		NSF Science & Engineering Indicators via World Bank

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Liechtenstein

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