Country or area · Southern Europe · Europe · UN WPP 2024

Montenegro population

Montenegro population now

625,397

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 612,255–639,183.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 633,552

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 626,226; 95% range, 31 Dec: 612,255–639,183
Median age: 41.4
Aged 65+: 18.8%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 100 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

MNE · 1950–2100 · in brief

Montenegro in numbers

The UN counts 633,552 people in Montenegro in mid-2023, which makes it the 170th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 1.6 times its 1950 population of 403 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2024 at 638 thousand, then falling to 326 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 224 thousand to 662 thousand.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 2020, and do so in every projected year to 2100. The population still grows until 2024, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 21.7 in 1950 and 40.3 in 2023; the projection has 53.9 in 2100. 17.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 36.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2012 at 429 thousand; in 2023 it was 407 thousand.

Among countries it ranks 170th in 2023, 177th in 2050 and 185th in 2100. It is overtaken by Suriname in 2025, Western Sahara in 2028 and the Maldives in 2042.

Population, mid-2023: 633,552
Rank by population, 2023: 170 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +3.08% · +18,904 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 47
Land area, 2023: 13,450 km²
Births, 2023: 6,981
Deaths, 2023: 7,209
Net migration, 2023: +12,000
Children per woman, 2023: 1.80
Median age, 2023: 40.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 77.1 years
In a city, 2025: 32 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 402,513
Projected, mid-2050: 533,295
Projected, mid-2100: 326,015

MNE · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Montenegro, 1950–2100

Montenegro: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	398,956		12,355	5,892	4.36	58.0
1951	estimate	406,069		13,313	5,867	4.63	58.5
1952	estimate	414,077		13,927	5,828	4.56	59.1
1953	estimate	423,723		14,575	5,794	4.56	59.7
1954	estimate	431,235		14,948	5,595	4.49	60.8
1955	estimate	437,507		14,410	5,553	4.16	60.9
1956	estimate	443,660		14,332	5,305	4.03	62.0
1957	estimate	449,719		14,338	5,094	3.94	63.0
1958	estimate	455,763		14,108	4,921	3.80	63.8
1959	estimate	461,848		13,287	4,705	3.53	64.7
1960	estimate	467,949		13,492	4,526	3.53	65.7
1961	estimate	474,445		13,497	4,470	3.49	66.1
1962	estimate	481,209		13,501	4,438	3.44	66.4
1963	estimate	487,674		13,412	4,380	3.38	66.8
1964	estimate	493,903		13,053	4,266	3.28	67.4
1965	estimate	499,958		12,752	4,144	3.19	68.1
1966	estimate	505,826		12,432	4,064	3.09	68.6
1967	estimate	511,441		11,778	3,950	2.91	69.3
1968	estimate	516,751		11,391	3,867	2.79	69.8
1969	estimate	521,865		11,467	3,857	2.79	70.2
1970	estimate	527,026		11,168	3,862	2.69	70.4
1971	estimate	532,316		11,277	3,837	2.67	70.8
1972	estimate	537,901		11,322	3,806	2.61	71.3
1973	estimate	543,495		11,109	3,797	2.51	71.6
1974	estimate	549,029		10,945	3,862	2.43	71.6
1975	estimate	554,435		10,881	3,868	2.38	71.9
1976	estimate	559,867		10,889	3,918	2.35	72.1
1977	estimate	565,392		10,833	4,058	2.31	71.8
1978	estimate	570,794		10,650	4,111	2.25	71.9
1979	estimate	576,238		10,547	4,277	2.20	71.5
1980	estimate	581,785		10,714	4,195	2.22	72.2
1981	estimate	587,855		10,707	4,319	2.19	72.1
1982	estimate	591,962		10,843	4,352	2.19	72.3
1983	estimate	595,295		10,943	4,434	2.17	72.3
1984	estimate	598,617		10,848	4,518	2.14	72.3
1985	estimate	601,877		10,821	4,557	2.13	72.4
1986	estimate	605,122		10,615	4,527	2.09	72.8
1987	estimate	608,469		10,469	4,490	2.07	73.2
1988	estimate	611,871		10,083	4,498	2.01	73.4
1989	estimate	615,298		9,665	4,448	1.94	73.8
1990	estimate	618,786		9,634	4,507	1.95	73.9
1991	estimate	622,208		9,918	4,587	2.02	74.0
1992	estimate	624,910		9,884	4,725	2.01	73.8
1993	estimate	627,129		9,572	4,797	1.96	73.9
1994	estimate	629,069		9,454	4,940	1.94	73.8
1995	estimate	630,687		9,527	5,055	1.96	73.7
1996	estimate	632,075		9,325	5,186	1.92	73.6
1997	estimate	633,164		9,127	5,313	1.89	73.5
1998	estimate	633,901		9,138	5,433	1.89	73.4
1999	estimate	634,280		9,078	5,588	1.88	73.3
2000	estimate	634,285		9,161	5,609	1.90	73.5
2001	estimate	634,102		8,940	5,655	1.85	73.7
2002	estimate	633,880		8,757	5,624	1.81	74.1
2003	estimate	633,653		8,723	5,734	1.80	74.2
2004	estimate	633,466		8,399	5,820	1.73	74.4
2005	estimate	634,041		8,231	5,971	1.70	74.4
2006	estimate	634,059		8,376	6,021	1.74	74.7
2007	estimate	633,683		8,653	6,189	1.80	74.7
2008	estimate	633,074		9,023	6,165	1.90	75.0
2009	estimate	632,615		9,237	6,143	1.96	75.4
2010	estimate	632,260		8,064	6,130	1.73	75.7
2011	estimate	631,917		7,713	6,173	1.68	76.0
2012	estimate	633,458		7,936	6,186	1.73	76.2
2013	estimate	633,622		7,947	6,304	1.74	76.3
2014	estimate	632,783		7,931	6,393	1.76	76.5
2015	estimate	629,968		7,746	6,526	1.76	76.6
2016	estimate	626,322		7,754	6,633	1.80	76.6
2017	estimate	622,175		7,521	6,696	1.79	76.6
2018	estimate	618,052		7,263	6,716	1.77	76.9
2019	estimate	613,538		7,220	6,881	1.81	76.6
2020	estimate	609,795		7,114	7,519	1.83	75.8
2021	estimate	606,075		7,033	9,133	1.85	73.8
2022	estimate	601,626		7,032	7,333	1.88	75.9
2023	estimate	627,669		6,981	7,209	1.80	77.1
2024	estimate	639,435		7,058	7,283	1.80	77.3
2025	projection	637,522	634,194–640,694	6,969	7,281	1.79	77.4
2026	projection	627,936	620,117–636,193	6,694	7,273	1.79	77.6
2027	projection	624,530	612,255–639,183	6,578	7,272	1.79	77.8
2028	projection	621,199	605,333–642,605	6,482	7,277	1.79	78.0
2029	projection	617,788	598,258–646,184	6,391	7,292	1.78	78.1
2030	projection	614,315	592,101–651,146	6,305	7,310	1.78	78.3
2031	projection	610,808	585,270–656,864	6,226	7,329	1.78	78.5
2032	projection	607,231	578,755–661,227	6,149	7,346	1.77	78.6
2033	projection	603,570	572,422–666,617	6,077	7,372	1.77	78.8
2034	projection	599,844	565,782–671,067	6,014	7,397	1.77	79.0
2035	projection	596,061	559,811–675,892	5,958	7,423	1.76	79.1
2036	projection	592,213	552,768–680,387	5,905	7,448	1.76	79.3
2037	projection	588,317	546,839–685,267	5,862	7,472	1.76	79.5
2038	projection	584,376	541,068–689,901	5,815	7,496	1.75	79.6
2039	projection	580,408	535,694–691,806	5,774	7,520	1.75	79.8
2040	projection	576,424	529,226–696,763	5,730	7,531	1.75	80.0
2041	projection	572,444	523,199–697,707	5,686	7,538	1.75	80.1
2042	projection	568,422	517,492–703,646	5,634	7,549	1.74	80.3
2043	projection	564,434	512,011–706,288	5,577	7,549	1.74	80.4
2044	projection	560,347	506,868–710,227	5,512	7,546	1.74	80.6
2045	projection	556,283	501,767–714,926	5,444	7,528	1.74	80.8
2046	projection	552,180	495,926–719,325	5,377	7,515	1.74	80.9
2047	projection	548,047	490,471–722,491	5,305	7,499	1.74	81.1
2048	projection	543,823	484,796–725,222	5,219	7,472	1.73	81.2
2049	projection	539,669	478,864–726,257	5,134	7,441	1.73	81.4
2050	projection	535,419	473,096–726,729	5,041	7,413	1.73	81.5
2051	projection	531,171	467,713–728,595	4,948	7,381	1.73	81.7
2052	projection	526,892	461,861–730,159	4,853	7,342	1.73	81.9
2053	projection	522,557	456,131–731,831	4,759	7,306	1.72	82.0
2054	projection	518,218	450,226–731,732	4,660	7,274	1.72	82.2
2055	projection	513,823	444,157–730,050	4,579	7,236	1.72	82.3
2056	projection	509,356	438,912–731,644	4,489	7,203	1.72	82.4
2057	projection	504,814	433,705–733,071	4,410	7,168	1.72	82.6
2058	projection	500,379	428,224–733,170	4,334	7,133	1.72	82.7
2059	projection	495,976	422,586–730,449	4,270	7,096	1.72	82.9
2060	projection	491,521	417,113–733,725	4,199	7,065	1.72	83.0
2061	projection	486,988	411,896–732,780	4,138	7,032	1.72	83.2
2062	projection	482,502	406,212–729,739	4,082	7,008	1.72	83.3
2063	projection	478,004	400,934–727,630	4,026	6,976	1.71	83.4
2064	projection	473,487	395,062–726,983	3,979	6,949	1.71	83.6
2065	projection	468,967	388,722–726,357	3,933	6,920	1.71	83.7
2066	projection	464,425	383,242–725,924	3,892	6,889	1.71	83.8
2067	projection	460,001	378,260–726,352	3,854	6,860	1.71	84.0
2068	projection	455,520	372,337–727,729	3,815	6,826	1.71	84.1
2069	projection	451,092	366,552–726,967	3,786	6,797	1.71	84.2
2070	projection	446,677	361,103–730,879	3,752	6,750	1.71	84.3
2071	projection	442,234	355,087–730,322	3,714	6,703	1.71	84.5
2072	projection	437,847	349,134–727,430	3,679	6,655	1.71	84.6
2073	projection	433,535	344,454–725,958	3,644	6,604	1.71	84.7
2074	projection	429,214	339,535–727,416	3,604	6,547	1.71	84.8
2075	projection	424,950	334,722–729,346	3,564	6,487	1.71	85.0
2076	projection	420,732	329,453–728,758	3,521	6,419	1.70	85.1
2077	projection	416,565	324,622–727,969	3,475	6,350	1.70	85.2
2078	projection	412,444	320,337–728,460	3,429	6,281	1.70	85.3
2079	projection	408,335	314,957–728,549	3,377	6,211	1.70	85.4
2080	projection	404,237	309,793–728,154	3,323	6,138	1.70	85.6
2081	projection	400,182	305,112–726,776	3,268	6,067	1.70	85.7
2082	projection	396,168	300,412–724,986	3,212	5,993	1.70	85.8
2083	projection	392,214	295,585–722,838	3,158	5,921	1.70	85.9
2084	projection	388,306	292,022–720,365	3,103	5,854	1.70	86.0
2085	projection	384,394	287,608–717,562	3,045	5,793	1.69	86.2
2086	projection	380,528	282,437–709,566	2,991	5,731	1.69	86.3
2087	projection	376,697	278,677–700,766	2,939	5,677	1.69	86.4
2088	projection	372,880	274,312–698,188	2,888	5,625	1.69	86.5
2089	projection	369,108	270,468–695,862	2,840	5,582	1.69	86.6
2090	projection	365,309	266,590–693,424	2,794	5,530	1.69	86.8
2091	projection	361,515	262,502–691,755	2,751	5,491	1.69	86.9
2092	projection	357,727	258,187–690,626	2,711	5,449	1.69	87.0
2093	projection	353,967	253,995–687,538	2,675	5,415	1.69	87.1
2094	projection	350,204	249,824–688,516	2,640	5,379	1.69	87.2
2095	projection	346,477	244,953–688,882	2,608	5,347	1.70	87.3
2096	projection	342,745	240,685–680,933	2,573	5,323	1.69	87.4
2097	projection	339,009	236,372–679,092	2,542	5,294	1.69	87.5
2098	projection	335,283	231,752–674,076	2,514	5,266	1.69	87.6
2099	projection	331,602	227,384–667,642	2,486	5,238	1.69	87.8
2100	projection	327,878	223,723–661,506	2,460	5,214	1.69	87.9

Show the numbers: Montenegro, mid-2026, by single year of age

Montenegro: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	3,448	3,224
1	3,485	3,243
2	3,526	3,278
3	3,644	3,385
4	3,739	3,468
5	3,753	3,474
6	3,784	3,500
7	3,807	3,515
8	3,874	3,570
9	3,983	3,666
10	4,030	3,700
11	4,072	3,732
12	4,122	3,777
13	4,132	3,784
14	4,094	3,752
15	4,117	3,892
16	4,235	4,049
17	4,254	3,996
18	4,127	3,876
19	3,892	3,682
20	3,720	3,538
21	3,703	3,548
22	3,774	3,646
23	3,902	3,734
24	3,909	3,762
25	3,796	3,710
26	3,676	3,577
27	3,660	3,524
28	3,720	3,557
29	3,760	3,608
30	3,843	3,728
31	3,812	3,740
32	3,742	3,665
33	3,846	3,720
34	3,852	3,704
35	3,746	3,617
36	3,703	3,686
37	3,812	3,806
38	4,068	3,992
39	4,220	4,132
40	4,282	4,217
41	4,367	4,341
42	4,454	4,475
43	4,490	4,582
44	4,396	4,526
45	4,304	4,502
46	4,258	4,520
47	4,233	4,521
48	4,179	4,509
49	4,060	4,443
50	3,958	4,393
51	3,902	4,362
52	3,844	4,366
53	3,776	4,324
54	3,794	4,236
55	3,749	4,155
56	3,681	4,109
57	3,676	4,070
58	3,689	4,100
59	3,746	4,167
60	3,782	4,187
61	3,738	4,213
62	3,710	4,276
63	3,720	4,340
64	3,673	4,331
65	3,575	4,276
66	3,537	4,192
67	3,548	4,154
68	3,465	4,077
69	3,330	3,938
70	3,228	3,874
71	3,153	3,878
72	2,984	3,758
73	2,730	3,550
74	2,435	3,314
75	2,234	3,218
76	2,077	3,153
77	1,766	2,806
78	1,506	2,480
79	1,285	2,197
80	958	1,740
81	781	1,514
82	758	1,550
83	701	1,518
84	656	1,458
85	624	1,430
86	562	1,374
87	474	1,228
88	376	1,044
89	290	869
90	222	719
91	168	587
92	120	472
93	84	370
94	58	285
95	40	217
96	27	164
97	18	122
98	10	87
99	6	59
100+	7	96

MNE · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Montenegro, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

MNE · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Montenegro

Montenegro had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2012: 428,895 people aged 15–64, against 406,748 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

29 children

27 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 18 years: 1998–2015.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

MNE · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Montenegro, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Montenegro gains 5,602 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 60–64, at 466 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 26,332 (2022) and the most it lost was 5,274 (2016).

In 2024, 92,237 people living in Montenegro had been born in another country, 14 of every 100 people there, against 12 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

MNE · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Montenegro

Of every 100 babies born in Montenegro in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 76 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 21 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 6 under 20 and 20 aged 35 or older.

1950
6 · 74 · 20

2023
3 · 76 · 21

2050 · projected
2 · 73 · 25

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 6,981
Average age when women have a baby: 30.2 years; 30.1 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 9; 29 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Montenegro by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	2	2	3	2	1	0
15–19	665	873	551	175	78	41
20–24	3,925	3,953	2,725	1,006	493	259
25–29	3,348	3,263	2,905	2,190	1,421	712
30–34	1,900	1,588	1,898	2,128	1,787	855
35–39	1,650	909	845	1,172	995	465
40–44	720	263	223	285	246	117
45–49	145	30	11	23	20	11
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	12,355	10,881	9,161	6,981	5,041	2,460

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

MNE · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Montenegro

A baby born in Montenegro in 2021 could expect 74.7 years of life, 65.1 of them in full health (95% range 64.6–65.9). That leaves 9.6 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

66.8 in full health, 11.1 not: 77.9 years

Men

63.5 in full health, 8.1 not: 71.6 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 66.8 healthy years of 77.9. Men: 63.5 of 71.6. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 67.3.

MNE · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Montenegro

At the end of 2025, Montenegro was hosting 12,444 people who had crossed a border into it, about 20 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad12,444
Montenegro nationals abroad861

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 500 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Montenegro living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 125 people asked for asylum in Montenegro for the first time; 155 people from Montenegro asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Montenegro whose claims were decided that year, 0 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

MNE · of every 100 people

How people live in Montenegro

Of every 100 people in Montenegro in 2025, 32 lived in a city, 50 in a town or suburb and 18 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 11.1 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

MNE · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Montenegro went in school

Almost every adult in Montenegro went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 78 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 some primary 6 finished primary 14 finished lower secondary 56 finished upper secondary 22 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64, and the ones among them who finished upper secondary, are projected to be most numerous in the same year, 2025.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

MNE · cities · 2025

Cities in Montenegro

Montenegro had 2 cities in 2025, home to 205,205 people.

Podgorica150,697
Nikšić54,508

How to read this: the 2 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Montenegro are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.