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Montenegro

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Capital:	Podgorica is the administrative capital and Cetinje the historical capital
Area size:	13812 sq. km A third of the size of Switzerland
Time zone:	Standard Time GMT +1, Summer Time GMT+2
Currency:	Euro
Area code:	+381
Climate description:	Long and dry summers and short and mild winters in the Mediterranean region, hot summers and cool winters in the central parts of the country.

People

Standard of living

Economy & aid

Health

Disasters, conflict & migration

Language
Montenegrin and Serbian of the Ijekavain dialect
Source: New Internationalist World Guide

Population

2007	0.6 million	U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Population Division (2006)
2006	0.6 million	U.N. DESA (2006)
2005	0.6 million	U.N. DESA (2006)
2004	0.6 million	U.N. DESA (2006)
2003	0.6 million	U.N. DESA (2006)
2002	0.7 million	U.N. DESA (2006)
2001	0.7 million	U.N. DESA (2006)
2000	0.7 million	U.N. DESA (2006)

Future population estimates
0.7 million (2050)
Source: U.N. DESA (2006)

Ethnic groups
Montenegrin 43 percent, Serb 32 percent, Bosnian 8 percent, Albanian 5 percent. There are also smaller Croat and Roma minorities.
Source: NI World Guide

Religion
Orthodox Christian 74 percent, Muslim 18 percent
Source: NI World Guide

Percentage of population under 15
19.6 percent (2005)
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) 2007

Average life expectancy
74 years (2000-2005)
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) 2007

Life expectancy - male
72 years (2005)
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) 2007

Life expectancy - female
76.4 years (2005)
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) 2007

Infant mortality
9 per 1,000 live births (2006)
Source: UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Child mortality - deaths before the age of five
No data available per 1,000 live births (2001)

Births attended by skilled personnel
92 percent (1997-2005)
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) 2007

Percentage of children under weight for age (under age 5)
3 percent (2000-2006)
Source: UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Landlines telephones
34 per 1,000 people (2006)
Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2007

Cellular telephone subscribers
78 per 1,000 people (2006)
Source: ITU 2007

Internet users
25 per 1,000 people (2006)
Source: ITU 2007

Transparency International corruption ranking (1=least corrupt, 179=most corrupt)

2007	84 (joint)	Transparency International 2007
2006	Not ranked

Signatory of International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for the crime of Genocide
Yes (1948)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report

Signatory of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Yes (1984)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report

Signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Yes (1989)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report

International humanitarian aid flows
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Source: Financial Tracking Service, ReliefWeb

Physicians
206 per 100,000 people (2000-2004)
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) 2007

Malaria
No risk
Source: WHO

TB cases
No data available per 100,000 people (2002)

Chronology of natural disasters
Access EM-DAT, a database of natural disasters from 1900 to the present - death tolls and numbers of affected people - searchable by country.
Source: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Number of refugees originating here
135 (2006)
Source: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Number of refugees residing here
6926 (2006)
Source: UNHCR

Number of internally displaced people\Estimate

Signatory to landmine convention?
Yes (2007)
Source: Landmine Monitor Report

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