Europe & Central Asia · NATO · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF09, GF0107, rev
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2025
Not available
Welfare · 2025
Not available
Healthcare · 2025
Not available
Defence · 2025
1.89%
-0.8 pts since 2005
Education · 2025
Not available
Debt interest · 2025
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
63.5%
of GDP · -22 pts since 2002
Population · 2025
0.6m
1.9% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Montenegro yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare fell from 4.9% to 4.6% of GDP between 2011 and 2017, then rose to 6.7% by 2023.
Defence fell from 2.7% to 1.3% of GDP between 2005 and 2019, then rose to 1.9% by 2025.
Gross debt fell from 85.7% to 28.2% of GDP between 2002 and 2007, then rose to 63.5% by 2025.
Population grew from 0.6 million in 1995 to 0.6 million in 2025; the UN projects 0.5 million by 2050.