Montenegro

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
629,219 1
Urban
66.80% 1
Rural
33.20% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
13.2% 2
Homicides
2.72 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
64 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
89 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.68 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.50% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
76 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
98.44% 6
Internet Users
61% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$7,320 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
1.7% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
20,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
2.80
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
153
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
6
First Communions per Year
33
Confirmations per Year
106
Church Marriages per Year
35
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
32
Priests
32
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
132
Catholics per Priest
634
Parishes
44
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
1