Life expectancy at birth in Montenegro

Life expectancy at birth in Montenegro was 77.9 years in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.

Life expectancy at birth (UN estimates) Years Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank

Montenegro, 2024 77.9 Years

Change from 2023 +0.4% 2023: 77.6 years

World, 2024 73.5 years Official aggregate

Position in 2024 75th of 217 See the full ranking

Life expectancy at birth in Montenegro over time

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Years. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

A dash means no value was published for that period.

That is a change of +0.4% from 77.6 years in 2023.
Since 2014, when it was 76.3 years, the figure has changed by +2.0%.
Among the 217 countries with data for 2024, Montenegro has the 75th highest value.
The figure for the world in 2024 was 73.5 years.

Original producer: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Distributed by: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code: SP.DYN.LE00.IN · dataset details · view at source
Observation period: 1960 to 2024 for Montenegro
Provider update: 8 October 2026
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution: Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects

The number of years a newborn would live if the mortality patterns at the time of birth stayed the same throughout life.

Population covered: Newborns, both sexes

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