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Albania vs Montenegro

118 shared metrics.

AlbaniaLeads in 51

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MontenegroLeads in 67

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Albania

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Albania.

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Identity

Name origin: name may be derived from the pre-Celtic word alb, meaning "hill," or from the Indo-European root word albh, meaning "white.

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Montenegro

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Identity

Name origin: the name in Italian means "dark mountain" and is a translation of the Serbo-Croatian name Crna Gora.

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Geography

Size snapshot: slightly smaller than Connecticut.

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Analysis

Montenegro leads in 67 of 118 shared metrics, while Albania leads in 51.

Albania's Irrigated Land is 78.5x that of Montenegro (1.9K km² vs 24 km²).

Albania's Tourist Arrivals is 6.6x that of Montenegro (2.66M vs 351.0K).

Albania's Tourism Revenue is 5.9x that of Montenegro ($1,243,000,000 vs $180,000,000).

Albania's Domestic Patents is 3.6x that of Montenegro (23 vs 5.0).

Albania's Population is 3.3x that of Montenegro (2.55M vs 599.8K).

Key Comparisons

Irrigated LandAlbania leads

Albania

1.9K km²

Montenegro

24 km²

Tourist ArrivalsAlbania leads

Albania

2.66M

Montenegro

351.0K

Tourism RevenueAlbania leads

Albania

$1,243,000,000

Montenegro

$180,000,000

Domestic PatentsAlbania leads

Albania

Montenegro

5.0

PopulationAlbania leads

Albania

2.55M

Montenegro

599.8K

Infant MortalityAlbania leads

Albania

8.3 per 1k births

Montenegro

2.1 per 1k births

All Metrics

Irrigated Land

Albania

1.9K km²

Montenegro

24 km²

7846% higher

Tourist Arrivals

Albania

2.66M

Montenegro

351.0K

657% higher

Tourism Revenue

Albania

$1,243,000,000

Montenegro

$180,000,000

591% higher

Domestic Patents

Albania

Montenegro

5.0

360% higher

Population

Albania

2.55M

Montenegro

599.8K

325% higher

Infant Mortality

Albania

8.3 per 1k births

Montenegro

2.1 per 1k births

295% higher

Merchant Fleet Size

Albania

Montenegro

283% higher

Child Mortality

Albania

9.4 per 1k births

Montenegro

2.6 per 1k births

262% higher

Firms Making Informal Payments

Albania

16.69% of firms

Montenegro

4.7% of firms

258% higher

GDP (Nominal)

Albania

$27,046,429,296.67

Montenegro

$8,270,016,670.87

227% higher

Electric Generating Capacity

Albania

2.86M kW

Montenegro

1.08M kW

164% higher

Electricity Generation

Albania

9.0 TWh

Montenegro

3.7 TWh

144% higher

Land Area

Albania

27.4K km²

Montenegro

13.4K km²

104% higher

All-Time Olympic Medals

Albania

2.0 medals

Montenegro

1.0 medals

100% higher

Agricultural Land (%)

Albania

38.12%

Montenegro

19.59%

95% higher

Population Density

Albania

88.11 /km²

Montenegro

46.36 /km²

90% higher

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Montenegro

Albania

25.18 gCO2/kWh

Montenegro

264.23 gCO2/kWh

90% lower

Firms Asked for Bribes

Albania

15.12% of firms

Montenegro

8.0% of firms

89% higher

High-Tech Exports (%)

Montenegro

Albania

1.5%

Montenegro

14.46%

89% lower

Capital Elevation

Montenegro

Albania

110 m

Montenegro

650 m

83% lower

Comparison of Albania and Montenegro across 118 metrics
				Winner
Irrigated Land	1.9K km²	24 km²	7846% higher	Albania
Tourist Arrivals	2.66M	351.0K	657% higher	Albania
Tourism Revenue	$1,243,000,000	$180,000,000	591% higher	Albania
Domestic Patents	23	5.0	360% higher	Albania
Population	2.55M	599.8K	325% higher	Albania
Infant Mortality	8.3 per 1k births	2.1 per 1k births	295% higher	Albania
Merchant Fleet Size	69	18	283% higher	Albania
Child Mortality	9.4 per 1k births	2.6 per 1k births	262% higher	Albania
Firms Making Informal Payments	16.69% of firms	4.7% of firms	258% higher	Albania
GDP (Nominal)	$27,046,429,296.67	$8,270,016,670.87	227% higher	Albania
Electric Generating Capacity	2.86M kW	1.08M kW	164% higher	Albania
Electricity Generation	9.0 TWh	3.7 TWh	144% higher	Albania
Land Area	27.4K km²	13.4K km²	104% higher	Albania
All-Time Olympic Medals	2.0 medals	1.0 medals	100% higher	Albania
Agricultural Land (%)	38.12%	19.59%	95% higher	Albania
Population Density	88.11 /km²	46.36 /km²	90% higher	Albania
Electricity Carbon Intensity	25.18 gCO2/kWh	264.23 gCO2/kWh	90% lower	Montenegro
Firms Asked for Bribes	15.12% of firms	8.0% of firms	89% higher	Albania
High-Tech Exports (%)	1.5%	14.46%	89% lower	Montenegro
Capital Elevation	110 m	650 m	83% lower	Montenegro
Suicide Rate	2.8 per 100k	11.31 per 100k	76% lower	Montenegro
Homicide Rate	1.4 per 100k	0.79 per 100k	76% higher	Albania
Railway Length	424 km	250 km	70% higher	Albania
Spirits Consumption	1.2 L/person/yr	3.2 L/person/yr	64% lower	Montenegro
Water Withdrawal	0.80 B m³	2.2 B m³	64% lower	Montenegro
Health Spending Per Capita	$414.35	$1,107.06	63% lower	Montenegro
Beer Consumption	1.5 L/person/yr	3.8 L/person/yr	60% lower	Montenegro
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	89 per 100 people	207.24 per 100 people	57% lower	Montenegro
CO2 Per Capita	1.6 t/person/yr	3.7 t/person/yr	57% lower	Montenegro
Alcohol Consumption	4.5 L/adult/yr	9.9 L/adult/yr	55% lower	Montenegro
Forest Coverage (%)	28.79%	61.49%	53% lower	Montenegro
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	40.11 per 100k	83.45 per 100k	52% lower	Montenegro
University Enrollment Rate	82%	55.17%	49% higher	Albania
Energy Use (Per Capita)	888.46 kg oil eq/person	1.7K kg oil eq/person	48% lower	Montenegro
Credit Card Ownership	7.4% of adults	13.93% of adults	47% lower	Montenegro
Political Corruption Index	0.62	0.43	45% higher	Albania
Digital Payments Used	35.31% of adults	64.34% of adults	45% lower	Montenegro
Seafood Consumption per Person	8.7 kg/person/yr	15.56 kg/person/yr	44% lower	Montenegro
Tobacco Use Prevalence	21.4% of adults	37.3% of adults	43% lower	Montenegro
Health Spending (% GDP)	6.2% of GDP	10.92% of GDP	43% lower	Montenegro
Firms with Female Top Manager	19.11% of firms	13.5% of firms	41% higher	Albania
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	28 days/yr	20 days/yr	40% higher	Albania
Airports	3.0	5.0	40% lower	Montenegro
Firms Hit by Power Outages	33.16% of firms	55.4% of firms	40% lower	Montenegro
Fertility Rate	1.1 children/woman	1.8 children/woman	39% lower	Montenegro
Vehicles per 1,000 People	209.37 per 1k people	337.76 per 1k people	38% lower	Montenegro
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	2.9K kWh/person	4.6K kWh/person	37% lower	Montenegro
Teen Birth Rate	12.79 per 1k	9.4 per 1k	36% higher	Albania
Meat Consumption per Person	47.51 kg/person/yr	73.01 kg/person/yr	35% lower	Montenegro
Imports (% GDP)	43.17% of GDP	66.2% of GDP	35% lower	Montenegro
Inflation Rate	2.2%	3.3%	33% lower	Montenegro
Armed Forces Personnel	8.0K	12.0K	33% lower	Montenegro
Smoking Rate	21.9%	32%	32% lower	Montenegro
Doctors (per 1,000)	1.9 per 1k	2.8 per 1k	32% lower	Montenegro
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	2.9 per 100k people	2.2 per 100k people	32% higher	Albania
Broadband Access (%)	22 per 100 people	32 per 100 people	31% lower	Montenegro
Women in Parliament (%)	35.71%	27.16%	31% higher	Albania
Women in Senior Management	33.41% of managers	48.11% of managers	31% lower	Montenegro
Solar Electricity Share	4.1%	5.7%	28% lower	Montenegro
GDP Growth Rate	4.0%	3.2%	28% higher	Albania
Unemployment Rate	10.25%	14.1%	27% lower	Montenegro
Obesity Rate	26.58%	21.05%	26% higher	Albania
Border Neighbors	3.0	4.0	25% lower	Montenegro
Liberal Democracy Index	0.38	0.50	24% lower	Montenegro
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	2.9 per 1k	3.8 per 1k	24% lower	Montenegro
Electoral Democracy Index	0.48	0.64	24% lower	Montenegro
Coastline Length	362 km	293.5 km	23% higher	Albania
Death Rate	7.9 per 1k	10.29 per 1k	23% lower	Montenegro
Government Debt (% GDP)	81.9% of GDP	67.2% of GDP	22% higher	Albania
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$26,693.19	$34,225.87	22% lower	Montenegro
Freedom of Expression Index	0.67	0.85	21% lower	Montenegro
Scientific Publications	238.59	294.93	19% lower	Montenegro
GNI Per Capita	$9,910	$12,210	19% lower	Montenegro
Birth Rate	8.7 per 1k	10.77 per 1k	19% lower	Montenegro
Road Traffic Death Rate	10.8 per 100k	9.1 per 100k	19% higher	Albania
Exports (% GDP)	36.28% of GDP	43.75% of GDP	17% lower	Montenegro
Safe Drinking Water (%)	70.79%	85.5%	17% lower	Montenegro
Corruption Perceptions Index	39 pts	46 pts	15% lower	Montenegro
Inequality (Gini)	29.4	34.3	14% lower	Montenegro
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	15.71 µg/m³	17.98 µg/m³	13% lower	Montenegro
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	6.3% of GDP	7.2% of GDP	13% lower	Montenegro
Military Spending	2.0% of GDP	1.8% of GDP	11% higher	Albania
Urban Population (%)	58.55%	65.54%	11% lower	Montenegro
Insufficient Physical Activity	23.62% of adults	21.39% of adults	10% higher	Albania
Dependency Ratio	50.97% of working-age pop.	56.15% of working-age pop.	9% lower	Montenegro
Protected Land (%)	23.6%	21.7%	9% higher	Albania
Highest Elevation	2.8K m	2.5K m	9% higher	Albania
Median Age	36.3 years	39.3 years	8% lower	Montenegro
Hypertension Prevalence	41.7% of adults	45.1% of adults	8% lower	Montenegro
Life Evaluation Score	5.7 pts	6.1 pts	8% lower	Montenegro
Internet Users (%)	83%	88.88%	7% lower	Montenegro
Youth Population (%)	16.84%	18.13%	7% lower	Montenegro
Human Development Index	0.81	0.86	6% lower	Montenegro
Renewable Energy (%)	41.9%	39.6%	6% higher	Albania
Forest Area	7.9K km²	8.3K km²	5% lower	Montenegro
Youth Unemployment Rate	25.57% of youth labor force	24.44% of youth labor force	5% higher	Albania
Elderly Population (%)	16.92%	17.83%	5% lower	Montenegro
Average Weekly Work Hours	41.33 hrs/week	42.86 hrs/week	4% lower	Montenegro
Women's Political Empowerment	0.89	0.87	3% higher	Albania
Nurses & Midwives	5.8 per 1k	6.0 per 1k	3% lower	Montenegro
Life Expectancy	79.6 years	77.6 years	3% higher	Albania
Land Border Length	691 km	680 km	2% higher	Albania
Milk Consumption per Person	351.72 kg/person/yr	349.21 kg/person/yr	1% higher	Albania
Air Passengers	374.8K	379.1K	1% lower	Montenegro
Sanitation Access (%)	99.3%	97.85%	1% higher	Albania
Can Raise Emergency Money	89.28% of adults	90.44% of adults	1% lower	Montenegro
Food Waste per Person	124.95 kg/person/yr	125.63 kg/person/yr	1% lower	Montenegro
Time Zones Count	1.0 time zones	1.0 time zones	equal	Albania
Coal Electricity Share	0%	24.39%	ranked lower	Montenegro
Wind Electricity Share	0%	11.38%	ranked lower	Montenegro
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Albania
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Albania
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Albania
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Albania
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-2% of GDP	-20.5% of GDP	ranked higher	Albania
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	4.0 sites	4.0 sites	equal	Albania
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	0 gold medals	0 gold medals	ranked higher	Albania
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Albania

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Analysis

Montenegro leads in 67 of 118 shared metrics, while Albania leads in 51.

Albania's Irrigated Land is 78.5x that of Montenegro (1.9K km² vs 24 km²).

Albania's Tourist Arrivals is 6.6x that of Montenegro (2.66M vs 351.0K).

Albania's Tourism Revenue is 5.9x that of Montenegro ($1,243,000,000 vs $180,000,000).

Albania's Domestic Patents is 3.6x that of Montenegro (23 vs 5.0).

Albania's Population is 3.3x that of Montenegro (2.55M vs 599.8K).

Key Comparisons

Irrigated LandAlbania leads

Albania

1.9K km²

Montenegro

24 km²

Tourist ArrivalsAlbania leads

Albania

2.66M

Montenegro

351.0K

Tourism RevenueAlbania leads

Albania

$1,243,000,000

Montenegro

$180,000,000

Domestic PatentsAlbania leads

Albania

Montenegro

5.0

PopulationAlbania leads

Albania

2.55M

Montenegro

599.8K

Infant MortalityAlbania leads

Albania

8.3 per 1k births

Montenegro

2.1 per 1k births

Irrigated Land

1.9K km²

24 km²

Tourist Arrivals

2.66M

351.0K

Tourism Revenue

$1,243,000,000

$180,000,000

Domestic Patents

5.0

Population

2.55M

599.8K

Infant Mortality

8.3 per 1k births

2.1 per 1k births

Merchant Fleet Size

Child Mortality

9.4 per 1k births

2.6 per 1k births

Firms Making Informal Payments

16.69% of firms

4.7% of firms

GDP (Nominal)

$27,046,429,296.67

$8,270,016,670.87

Electric Generating Capacity

2.86M kW

1.08M kW

Electricity Generation

9.0 TWh

3.7 TWh

Land Area

27.4K km²

13.4K km²

All-Time Olympic Medals

2.0 medals

1.0 medals

Agricultural Land (%)

38.12%

19.59%

Population Density

88.11 /km²

46.36 /km²

Electricity Carbon Intensity

25.18 gCO2/kWh

264.23 gCO2/kWh

Firms Asked for Bribes

15.12% of firms

8.0% of firms

High-Tech Exports (%)

1.5%

14.46%

Capital Elevation

110 m

650 m

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Irrigated Land

Tourist Arrivals

Tourism Revenue

Domestic Patents

Population

Infant Mortality

Merchant Fleet Size

Child Mortality

Firms Making Informal Payments

GDP (Nominal)

Electric Generating Capacity

Electricity Generation

Land Area

All-Time Olympic Medals

Agricultural Land (%)

Population Density

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Firms Asked for Bribes

High-Tech Exports (%)

Capital Elevation

Suicide Rate

Homicide Rate

Railway Length

Spirits Consumption

Water Withdrawal

Health Spending Per Capita

Beer Consumption

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

CO2 Per Capita

Alcohol Consumption

Forest Coverage (%)

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

University Enrollment Rate

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Credit Card Ownership

Political Corruption Index

Digital Payments Used

Seafood Consumption per Person

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Health Spending (% GDP)

Firms with Female Top Manager

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Airports

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Fertility Rate

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Teen Birth Rate

Meat Consumption per Person

Imports (% GDP)

Inflation Rate

Armed Forces Personnel

Smoking Rate

Doctors (per 1,000)

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Broadband Access (%)

Women in Parliament (%)

Women in Senior Management

Solar Electricity Share

GDP Growth Rate

Unemployment Rate

Obesity Rate

Border Neighbors

Liberal Democracy Index

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Electoral Democracy Index

Coastline Length

Death Rate

Government Debt (% GDP)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Freedom of Expression Index

Scientific Publications