Montenegro

EuropeCapital city: PodgoricaCapital metro: PodgoricaMost important metro: KotorPresident: Jakov MilatovićPrime Minister: Milojko Spajić
2026 population
623K
Rank #174 globally
Area
14k km² (5k sq mi)
Metros tracked
13
87% of population in metros
Composite score
8.7
Rank #104 globally

population: Official estimate (1 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 13 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography12 of 13 metros

Montenegro metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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12 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 13 tracked metros
13 metros
🗂️ Regions

3 entries listed under Montenegro. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

3 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Montenegrin
Currency
Euro (€)
Government
Republic
Legislature
Parliament of Montenegro
Demonym
Montenegrin
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+382
Internet TLD
.me
ISO 3166
ME
Established
2006
Highest point
Zla Kolata (2,534 m (8,314 ft))
National anthem
Oj, svijetla majska zoro

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#48 / 191
0.862
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#154 / 193
$9.2B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#67 / 193
$14.8k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#62 / 190
$35.4k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#66 / 192
$14.2k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#60 / 194
77.9 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
39.3 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#88 / 194
66%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.1%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#137 / 193
46/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#42 / 193
14.4%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#59 / 175
0.75
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#78 / 166
34.3
World Bank · 2021
Internet users
#64 / 193
89%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#121 / 185
3.9%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#117 / 192
3.7 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#40 / 186
76%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations2 full memberships

Security

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History12 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Independence era

Milojko Spajić✦ Current

2023Present

Prime Minister

Europe Now!

Jakov Milatović✦ Current

2023Present

President

Europe Now!

Dritan Abazović

20222023

Prime Minister

URA

Zdravko Krivokapić

20202022

Prime Minister

Independent

Milo Đukanović

20182023

President

DPS

Duško Marković

20162020

Prime Minister

DPS

Milo Đukanović

20122016

Prime Minister

DPS

Igor Lukšić

20102012

Prime Minister

DPS

Milo Đukanović

20082010

Prime Minister

DPS

Željko Šturanović

20062008

Prime Minister

DPS

Milo Đukanović

20062006

Prime Minister

DPS

Filip Vujanović

20062018

President

DPS
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#98 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Montenegro · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19455 interstate wars · click to expand

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
634k
#170 in the world
Since 1800
5.00×
from 127k
Peak
1999
634k
Share of world
0.01%
0.01% in 1800
160k319k479k638k18001850190019502000
Montenegro · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Montenegro: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
2024
638k on the UN median
2050
533k
95% band 470k to 728k
2100
326k
95% band 222k to 659k
2100 against 2025
0.52×
median falling from 2025
Deaths outnumber births
since 2020
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
192k385k577k770k1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
12k born · 6k died · +653 net migration
TFR 4.36 · life expectancy 58.0 · median age 20.7
1960
13k born · 5k died · -2k net migration
TFR 3.53 · life expectancy 65.7 · median age 21.7
1970
11k born · 4k died · -2k net migration
TFR 2.69 · life expectancy 70.4 · median age 22.6
1980
11k born · 4k died · -450 net migration
TFR 2.22 · life expectancy 72.2 · median age 25.4
1990
10k born · 5k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.95 · life expectancy 73.9 · median age 28.7
2000
9k born · 6k died · -4k net migration
TFR 1.90 · life expectancy 73.6 · median age 32.3
2010
8k born · 6k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.73 · life expectancy 75.7 · median age 35.3
2020
7k born · 8k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.83 · life expectancy 75.8 · median age 38.7
Show all 16 decades
2030
6k born · 7k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.78 · life expectancy 78.3 · median age 41.6
2040
6k born · 8k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.75 · life expectancy 79.9 · median age 43.7
2050
5k born · 7k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.73 · life expectancy 81.5 · median age 45.1
2060
4k born · 7k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.72 · life expectancy 83.0 · median age 46.9
2070
4k born · 7k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.71 · life expectancy 84.3 · median age 49.0
2080
3k born · 6k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.70 · life expectancy 85.6 · median age 50.3
2090
3k born · 6k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 86.8 · median age 51.4
2100
2k born · 5k died · -970 net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 87.9 · median age 52.9

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Montenegro on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.