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Luxembourg

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ISO: LUX Region: Western & Central Europe

2.42% circumcision prevalence

Prevalence of non-therapeutic male circumcision.

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Jul 9, 2026

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Research note: Luxembourg DEEP_BUILT 2026-07-09. Morris 2016/2024: 2.4%/2.42% (confirmed 3-0). DISTINCTIVE: Luxembourg is the FIRST OECD country ever recorded with a majority foreign-born population — 47.3% foreign nationals (Jan 2024, pop. 672,050), 51.2% foreign-born (OECD 2024), 170+ nationalities. DISTINCTIVE (gathered via supplementary research, original claim did NOT survive adversarial pass): WWII Jewish deportations — pre-war community ~4,000 (3,500 native + 1,000+ German-Jewish refugees); 2,500+ emigrated 1940-1941 before ban; 674 deported 1941-1943 in 8 transports to Lodz/Auschwitz-Birkenau/Theresienstadt; only 36 camp survivors; 1,945 of ~3,500 pre-war Jews died overall, 1,555 survived. Legal status/harm cases = honest gaps (no statute found; not on ARC Law's list). HIV 0.3% (CIA Factbook 2020) — NOTABLY HIGHER than the other 4 countries in this batch (~0.1% each); World Bank gives 0.2% for 2022 (different year/methodology). UNREGULATED. NOT VMMC priority. Sources #1422-1429. This completes Batch 2 of the Phase-13 sprint (Montenegro/North Macedonia/Slovenia/Czechia/Luxembourg).

Research claims

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Legal status

Unregulated

This research did not locate a Luxembourgish statute specifically addressing non-therapeutic male circumcision — an honest gap, not a confirmed absence of any regulation. This research did not independently verify Luxembourg's female genital mutilation legal status either. Female genital mutilation is a separate matter and must not be conflated with male circumcision.

Medical & HIV context

0.3%

Adult HIV prevalence

CIA Factbook (2020) · Adults 15–49

Circumcision in newborns

Non-therapeutic (cultural practice)

minority-only

Typical age

Benchmarks are international context — not a local complication rate.

Incident registry

No verified incidents are currently recorded for Luxembourg.

This absence should not be read as proof that harm does not occur — only that no verified, sourced case has been documented in this database yet.

Country write-ups

Luxembourg: The First OECD Country Where Most Residents Were Born Somewhere Else

Luxembourg's low, minority-driven circumcision rate sits inside a country that is now majority foreign-born — a demographic milestone with roots that trace back to a much darker chapter of arrivals and departures during the Nazi occupation

Dec 1, 2026