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Montenegro

623,129

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-3962024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+3.0%from 604.95K
Life expectancy77.9 years2024
Fertility rate1.80births per woman · 2024
Urban population65.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Montenegro is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1417.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+18.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+1.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-9.28Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Montenegro look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 533.3K in 2050—16.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024638.48K
  2. 2050533.3K
  3. 2100326.02K
Median age in 205045.1years
Births in 20505.04Kduring the year
Deaths in 20507.41Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960480.58K
  2. 1970512.41K
  3. 1980572.61K
  4. 1990606.37K
  5. 2000604.95K
  6. 2010619.43K
  7. 2020626.59K
  8. 2025623.13K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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