Distillers Country guides / Montenegro
Montenegro
A one-page guide to Montenegro for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Podgorica (Cetinje is the Old Royal Capital)
- Official languages
- Montenegrin
- Currency
- Euro (EUR, adopted unilaterally)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (UTC+2 summer)
- Area
- 13,883 km²
People
- Population
- 623,129 (2025)
- Population growth
- -0.1% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 65.6%
- Aged under 15
- 17.9%
- Aged 65 and over
- 18.3%
- Life expectancy
- 77.9 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$9.2 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$14,817 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 2.7% (2025)
- Inflation
- 3.9% (2025)
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 (purchase)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 10.5 litres of pure alcohol (2019)
- What people drink
- Beer 38.3%, wine 26.3%, spirits 32.2%, other 3.2% (2019)
- Traditional drinks
- Lozova rakija / loza (grape brandy), Komovica (grape pomace rakija)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Plantaze (Wikipedia); Rakia (Wikipedia); Montenegro (Wikipedia); Legal drinking age; World Bank country data; WHO Global status report on alcohol and health 2024 (via Wikipedia table); UN Comtrade public API, HS 2208; PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries: Montenegro - other taxes. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.