Editing Lungern (section)

==Population and economy==
Nowadays the village of Lungern has about 2120 inhabitants. The population is stable, so there is a rise in the ratio of elderly to total population. In fact 17.5% of the total population of Lungern are of a pensionable age, compared with an average of 12% in the canton. If work opportunities remain limited this will likely grow even further in the future.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

===Demographics===
Lungern has a population (as of {{Swiss populations date|CH-OW}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-OW|1405}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-OW}}  {{as of|2007}}, 8.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.<ref name=OW_pop>[http://www.statistik-obwalden.ch/index.cfm?navid=78&docid=78 Canton Obwalden Statistics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707003126/http://www.statistik-obwalden.ch/index.cfm?navid=78&docid=78 |date=2011-07-07 }}  accessed 2 September 2009 {{in lang|de}}</ref>  Over the last 10 years{{Vague|date=June 2020}}<!-- ten years till when? --> the population has grown at a rate of 2.6%.  Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (94.8%), with Albanian being second most common (2.2%) and French third (0.7%).<ref name=SFSO>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=2016-01-05 }} accessed 03-Sep-2009</ref>  {{as of|2000}} the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. In 2000 there were 681 households in Lungern.<ref name=OW_pop/>

In the [[2007 Swiss federal election|2007 federal election]] the most popular party was{{Dubious|date=June 2020}}<!-- "parties were"? --> just classed as other, which received 41.7% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] (26.2%), the [[Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland|CVP]] (25.6%) and the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|SPS]] (6.5%).<ref name=SFSO/>

In Lungern about 71.5% of the population (between ages 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]] or additional higher education (either university or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').<ref name=SFSO/>

===Economy===
[[Image:Lungern-volklore.jpg|thumb|Folk celebration, with traditional costumes.]]
Lungern has{{When|date=June 2020}} an unemployment rate of 0.6%.  In 2005, there were 156 people employed in the [[Primary sector of the economy|primary economic sector]] and about 66 businesses involved; 443 people were employed in the [[Secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] and there were 27 businesses involved; 394 people were employed in the [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector]], with 54 businesses.<ref name=SFSO/>  About 24% of the workers were involved in agriculture and forestry, 40% were considered artisans or craftsman.  Of the rest of the working population, 13% were in commercial business or teaching staff, 12% were self-employed and 11% were domestic and hotel employees.<ref>[http://www.lungern.ch/de/portrait/willkommensgruss/ Municipality of Lungern-Welcome] {{in lang|de}} accessed 3 September 2009</ref>

Economically, agriculture, forestry and wood-working are predominant.  Agriculture comprises cattle-breeding and dairy-farming. All of the agricultural farms are cultivated by native highlanders, and they are mainly situated not in the bottom of the valley but on its slopes.{{Dubious|date=June 2020}}<!-- Is this about 2020, or about 2005? Is the present tense appropriate? -->

Lungern has a large industrial sector with the main employers being {{Interlanguage link|qid=Q1495365|Gasser Felstechnik}} with 300 employees specialising in securing rockfaces preventing rockfalls and landslides, neue Holzbau AG<ref group="n">[https://neueholzbau.ch/firma/unsere-mitarbeiter/ neue Holzbau AG website]</ref> (70+ employees) specialising in pre-fabricated wooden constructions and engineered wood products, H-P Gasser Membranbau<ref group="n">[https://www.hpgasser.ch/team/ H-P Gasser Membranbau website]</ref> (80+ employees) specialising in membrane structures and skylights and Sutter Fahrzeugbau<ref group="n">[https://sutter-fahrzeugbau.ch/ Sutter Fahrzeugbau website]</ref> who are specialists in coachwork and commercial vehicles. Located in the Obsee sector of Lungern together with many smaller companies, ensures{{Vague|date=June 2020}} <!-- WHAT ensures this? --> that companies in Lungern provide employment not just for the inhabitants of the village but the Sarner-Aa valley and the [[Haslital]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

===Historic population===
The historical population is given in the following table:<ref name=HDS>{{HDS|744|Lungern}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! year
! population 
|-
| 1790
|  1,234
|-
| 1850
|  1,413
|-
| 1900
|  1,828
|-
| 1950
|  1,878
|-
| 1990
|  1,859
|-
| 2000
|  1,965
|-
| 2005
| 1,950
|-
| 2006
| 1,975
|-
| 2007
| 2,023
|-
| 2008
| 2,035
|-
|}