At the end of December 2020, 160,978 employed persons were registered in Montenegro, which is 37,588 fewer than in the same month of 2019, when there were 198,566. These data are given in a report by the statistical office Monstat.
Statistical data show that the largest decrease in the number of workers was recorded in the sector “wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles,” where the number of workers fell by 7,281.
It is followed by the sector “administrative and support service activities,” where the number of workers is lower by 5,164, and then construction, where at the end of 2019 there were 4,771 more people than at the end of 2020.