This country has more passports than citizens

Maybe a problem in statistics, because the 20,000 difference is too big. Perhaps the problem is the number of people living outside Montenegro who have a Montenegrin passport where they can have two such travel documents. I am referring to the Montenegrin diaspora, people who are not registered in their country, but to what they live in, work and pay taxes,”, sociologist professor Srdjan Vukadinovic told Novosti.

He adds that the problem may also be in the census, as according to statistics, there are more citizens in Montenegro than housekeepers.

If there are 620,000 people in Montenegro and 640,000 travel documents, how many are citizens without passports? I pretend there are hundreds- thousand of them. The state has granted citizenship to around 500 deserving people and that is not a large number, but some of them are criminals who are under orders from their countries, “says Vukadinovic.

Of the 199 countries listed, Montenegro and its passports rank 85th in the individual index.

Based on investment in Montenegro, it is projected that up to two thousand foreign citizens will gain Montenegrin citizenship in the next three years if they meet the specific criteria in terms of a minimum investment of 100,000 to 450,000 euros, depending on the region, and that they have not been sentenced to a decision of cut form.

However, in a European Commission report on citizenship risks and residence programmes to foreign investors in the EU, they warned that the Commission would monitor investors' schemes in candidate countries and potential candidates as part of the EU accession process.

The number of privileged who received a Montenegrin passport is not officially mentioned at around 500, and among the most successful people are those trying to avoid new judgments in their native countries, such as Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.