Of the 39.942 unemployed in Montenegro, more than half, 21.563, are registered in thirteen municipalities in the north of the country.
According to the data of the Employment Service on the number of unemployed people at the end of last year, the highest number of people, in relation to the total number of inhabitants, was in Andrijevica, Rožaj and Plav, where about 20 percent of the inhabitants did not have a job.
In Rožaje, out of 25.247 inhabitants, as many as there were in the last census, 4.871 of them are unemployed.
In Plav, out of 10.378 inhabitants, there was no job in 2006.
In Andrijevica, out of 3.978 inhabitants, 827 are registered with the Employment Office.
It is similar in Berane and Petnjica, where every sixth resident is unemployed. According to the latest census, 25.152 inhabitants live in Berane, of which 4.248 are unemployed, and in Petnjica, 968 citizens out of the 5.552 registered do not have a job.
In Gusinje, 679 citizens, or almost every seventh of the 4.662 inhabitants, were waiting for employment at the Labor Bureau.
In Mojkovac, almost every eighth of the 6.824 inhabitants is unemployed, i.e. 904 of them.
Comparative data from coastal municipalities - Kotor, Tivat and Herceg Novi shows that the situation with the number of unemployed in the north is alarming.
In the municipality of Kotor, where 21.916 inhabitants live, only one in eighty-six, or slightly more than one percent, is unemployed. At the end of last year, 256 residents were waiting for a job at the labor bureau in that city.
In Tivat, only every sixty-fifth resident is unemployed. 16.340 inhabitants live in that municipality, of which only 250 do not have a job.
In Herceg Novi, 513 unemployed people were registered out of 31.471 inhabitants, that is, every sixty-first resident of that coastal city is unemployed.
In Budva, the metropolis of Montenegrin tourism, at the end of last year, 759 citizens, or every thirty-fifth of the 26.667 inhabitants, were waiting for a job.
In Bar, where according to the last census 46.171 inhabitants live, 1.495 of them are unemployed, or every thirty-first inhabitant of that port city.
Of the coastal municipalities, Ulcinj has the most unemployed in relation to the number of inhabitants, where every twenty-first resident of the southernmost Montenegrin city is unemployed. Of the 21.395 inhabitants at the end of last year, 1.012 of them, or about five percent, were waiting for a job.
There are 6.701 unemployed in Podgorica, or every twenty-seventh resident of the capital. At the last census, 180.186 inhabitants lived in Podgorica. It is characteristic of Podgorica that almost every seventh unemployed person has a university degree, that is, 913 of them, while 671 have a university degree.
In neighboring Zeta, every twenty-fifth resident is at the labor office, that is, 650 of them out of a total of 16.206 residents.
At the end of last year, 904 citizens of that municipality, or almost every fifteenth resident, were waiting for a job in Tuzi.
Of all the municipalities in the north of Montenegro, Šavnik and Žabljak have the least number of unemployed in relation to the number of inhabitants, where every nineteen inhabitants are unemployed. At the end of 2023, in Šavnik, with 1.588 inhabitants, 82 of them were waiting for a job, and in Žabljak, 157 out of 3.002 inhabitants.
In Plužine, which lost almost a third of its inhabitants between the two censuses, every tenth resident is unemployed. 2.232 inhabitants were registered in that municipality, while 222 of them are unemployed.
In Bijelo Polje, where Monstat recorded the lowest average earnings in the country, 3.589 out of 39.710 inhabitants are unemployed, as many as the most populous city in the north of Montenegro had in the recently held census.
In Pljevlja, the industrial center of Montenegro, out of 24.542 inhabitants, there is no job, just like in Bijelo Polje, every eleventh.
In that municipality, which lost more than 6.000 inhabitants between the two censuses, 2.215 people are waiting for work.
In Cetinje, at the end of last year, 1.052 unemployed people were registered at the bureau - every fourteenth of the 14.465 inhabitants.
In Nikšić, the second municipality in Montenegro in terms of population (66.725), at the end of last year 3.960 of them were unemployed, or every seventeenth resident.
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