COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Montenegro Unemployment

Montenegro unemployment: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS

COUNTRY: MontenegroINDICATOR: SL.UEM.TOTL.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-08-01 03:20:57REVISIONS: 0ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

13,57Latest / 2025

0,37Change from previous

15,33Series average

173Global rank / 192

Montenegro / Unemployment Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202513,57%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	13,57	0,37
2024	13,21	0,06
2023	13,15	-1,71
2022	14,85	-1,69
2021	16,54	-1,34
2020	17,88	2,75
2019	15,13	-0,06
2018	15,19	-0,89
2017	16,08	-1,65
2016	17,73	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment.

Source organization: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026

Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:21:22. Open original metadata response.

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Montenegro recorded 13,57 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the unemployment increased by 0,37.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 15,33; the minimum was 13,15 in 2023 and the maximum was 17,88 in 2020.

Montenegro ranks 173 out of 192 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Europe & Central Asia.

It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.

Labor-market slack and employment pressure.

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