In 2025, there was allocated 1 618.15 million EUR for total social protection expenditures, which is an increase by 8.5 percentage compared to 2024. Total social protection expenditures increased due to the increase in total expenditures for social protection benefits in the function Sickness/Health care, Disability, Old age, Survivors, Family/Children and Unemployment.

In 2025, the amount of social protection benefits representing 98.0 percentage of the total social protection expenditure.

By type of social protection, in 2025, the largest share of the total expenditure for social protection benefits refers to function Old age 598.86 million EUR, i.e. 37.7% while function Sickness/Health care 475.53 million EUR, i.e. 30.0%. The third group by the amount of expenditures on social protection benefits was function Survivors, amounted 182.05 million EUR, i.e. 11.5%, followed by function, Disability, Family/Children, Unemployment and Social exclusion not elsewhere classified.

Compared to the previous year, in 2025, an increase of share of the expenditures in total expenditures for social protection benefits were in the function Old age (by 0.8 percentage points), function Disability (by 0.6 percentage points) and function Family/Children (by 0.1 percentage points). On the other hand, a decrease of share expenditures in total expenditures for social protection benefits were in: function Sickness/Health (by 1.0 percentage points), function Survivors (by 0.3 percentage points) and function Unemployment and function Social exclusion not elsewhere classified (by 0.1 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 2025 was 19.6%, which is an increase by 0.1 percentage points compared to 2024. Nominal growth of Gross domestic product of Montenegro (GDP) in current prices in 2025 was 8.2%, while the total social protection expenditures in 2025 increased by 8.5%. Data are presented in Table 2.