European ranking
11 / 34
No change from the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for Gini coefficient in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Gini coefficient
Latest value
31.50 Index
European ranking
11 / 34
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
+1.6 puntos
Montenegro is 1.6 points above the European average.
EU: 29.88
Affected population
623.3K
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Gini coefficient
Granularity: Regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
Montenegro performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Gini coefficient, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement.
In Montenegro, Income inequality is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 31.5 index points versus 29.9 index points in 2022, with a gap of 1.6 index points.
In Montenegro, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 36.7 in 2017 to 31.5 in 2022. The latest step, from 32.5 in 2021 to 31.5 in 2022, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.