In 2021, EUR 948 959 016 was allocated for social protection benefits which is an increase by 0.1 percentage compared to 2020. During the COVID pandemic, the total social protection expenditures increased in functions Sickness/Health care, Old age, Survivors and Family/Children.

In 2021, the amount of social protection benefits representing 97.5 percentage of the total social protection expenditure, which is which is an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous year.

By type of social protection, in 2021, the largest share of the total expenditure for social protection benefits refers to function Sickness/Health care EUR 330 684 645, i.e. 35.7% while function Old age EUR 319 703 956 i.e. 34.6%. The third group by the amount of expenditures on social protection benefits was function Survivors, amounted EUR 96 487 668, i.e. 10.4%, followed function Disability, Unemployment and function Family/Children.

Compared to the previous year, in 2021, an increase of share of the expenditures in total expenditures for social protection benefits were in the function Sickness/Health care (by 2.2 percentage points), function Old age (by 0.7 percentage points), function Family/Children (by 0.5 percentage points) and function Survivors (by 0.3 percentage points). On the other hand, a decrease of share expenditures in total expenditures for social protection benefits were in the function Unemployment (by 3.6 percentage points), and function Social exclusion not elsewhere classified (by 0.2 percentage points). Data are presented in Table 1.

The share of the total social protection expenditures in the Gross domestic product of Montenegro (GDP) in 2021 was 19.2%, which is an decrease by 3.5 percentage points compared to 2020. Nominal growth of Gross domestic product of Montenegro (GDP) in current prices in 2021 was 18.4%, while the total social protection expenditures in 2021 increased by 0.1%. Data are presented in Table 2.

In all social protection functions in Montenegro, excluding the function Sickness/Health care, the largest share of all social protection benefits was allocated to cash benefits. Data are presented in Table 3.

The largest share of social protection benefits by function non-means tested in 2020 and 2021 refer to function Sickness/ Health care, function Disability and function Unemployment. Data are presented in Table 4.

In 2021, EUR 957 239 311 was allocated for social protection receipts, which is an increase by 0.1 percentage compared to 2020. Data are presented in Table 5.

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