Montenegro's Snapshot Country Profile

• Full name: Republic of Montenegro
  
  
• Population: 0.6m (2008 estimate*)
  
  
• Administrative capital: Podgorica
  
  
• Internet domain: .cg.yu
  
  
• International dialling code: +382/1
  
  
• Sunshine: 230 days year
  
  
• Coastline: 294km
  
  
• Area: 13,812 sq km (5,333 sq miles)
  
  
• Main religions: Christianity, Islam
  
  
• Languages: Serbian, Albanian
  
  
• Life expectancy: 71 years (men), 76 years (women) (UN)
  
  
• GDP: $2.49 bn (’08 est *)
  
  
• Economic growth: 6% (2007 est**)
  
  
• Inflation: 3.4% (** ’07-down from 6.7% in ’03)
  
  
• FDI: €650m ('07***)
  
  
• Unemployment: 14.7% ('07 est**)

• Labour Force: 259,100 ('07 est**)

• Monetary unit: euro
  
  
• Main export: Aluminium
  
  
• Member of EU: seeking by 2015    

For a fuller overview of Montenegro go to STEP country profile to give you more in-depth information of the Social, Technological, Economic and Political profile for the country. To give you more background as to why you might consider investing in Montenegro, go to the Why Invest section, or maybe look at the individual towns and cities profiled in each country's Towns section.

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Sources: *World Bank, **CIA World Factbook, ***European Bank-Strategy for Montenegro/wiiw - Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies