Luxembourg’s Health Sector Boosted by 600 Jobs Created in 5 Years

On Tuesday 7 October 2025, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, SMEs, Energy and Tourism, Lex Delles, announced during his address at HealthCare Week Luxembourg that Luxembourg’s health tech sector has created more than 600 jobs over the past five years.

According to Luxembourg’s Ministry of the Economy, this figure is derived from the 2025 mapping exercise of health tech companies it carried out with Luxinnovation’s Market Intelligence team and reflected the strong dynamism of the sector at the national level. The mapping indicates that, across the 2,500 jobs in the sector - spread across 130 companies - 36% of Luxembourg’s health tech companies have been established within the past ten years, and that 72% of them employ fewer than ten people. According to the data gathered, 50% of these companies now have a digital focus, compared with only 28% in 2020, the date of the previous survey. 

Minister Delles noted: “These characteristics, typical of a young ecosystem, represent a real growth opportunity, particularly through digitalisation.”

The ministry added that a third (32%) of the companies in the sector operate in the field of medical devices — developing, producing, and marketing regulated health technologies, including medical software used, for instance, in the diagnosis or treatment of diseases. Another third (31%) are active in the area of non-regulated health software without a medical purpose. The remaining companies are involved in the distribution of medicines and healthcare products (19%), biopharma (13%), in vitro diagnostics (2%), and medical analysis (2%).

The mapping also showed that 86% of the listed health tech companies exclusively target the human health market. The remaining 14%, originally active in other industries, are now diversifying their technological offerings towards human health — considered a new opportunity for growth. Of all the companies surveyed, 35% are start-ups and scale-ups, one third of which have participated in the Fit 4 Start programme.

The ministry detailed that health tech companies are mainly concentrated in two geographic areas — the cantons of Luxembourg and Esch-sur-Alzette and that this confirmed the growing attractiveness of sites such as Belval, home to the Cité des Sciences and the Technoport, and the House of BioHealth, near which the SüdSpidol and future HE:AL Campus will be located.

Minister Delles concluded: “On the basis of this 2025 overview of the health tech sector, Luxembourg intends to continue its ambition to become a leading European hub for the development, evaluation, and adoption of digital health technologies on the European market.”