LifePath

Life in Monaco

Europe & Central Asia · high-income · capital Monaco

World Bank country code MCO · ISO MC · Data sources

Live a life in Monaco

Start from this country's own statistics — its mortality curve, its income level, its school system — and play the years out: what happens if you leave school at fifteen, or take the job that is offered, or move to the capital.

Start a life in Monaco

The statistics behind the simulation

Each figure shows the year it was observed. A missing row means the World Bank does not report that indicator for Monaco — not that the value is zero.

IndicatorValueYear
Life expectancy at birth
The average number of years a newborn would live if the year's mortality rates held for their whole life.
86.5 years2024
Infant mortality
Babies who die before their first birthday, per 1,000 live births.
2.2 per 1,0002024
Under-5 mortality
Children who die before their fifth birthday, per 1,000 live births.
2.7 per 1,0002024
Fertility rate
The average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime.
2.102024
Government education spending
Public spending on education as a share of total output.
1.7%2023
Government health spending
Public spending on health as a share of total output.
3.1%2023
Urban population
The share of people living in urban areas.
100.0%2024
Population
Total population.
38,6312024
Birth rate
Crude birth rate: births per 1,000 population per year.
9.62024
Secondary school enrolment
Total enrolment in secondary school, regardless of age, as a percentage of the official age group.
158.5%2024
Maternal mortality
Deaths during pregnancy and childbirth per 100,000 live births.
5 per 100,0002023

What these numbers mean

A newborn in Monaco can expect to live 86.5 years, well above the median of 74.7 years across the 217 countries in this dataset. Infant mortality runs at 2.2 deaths per 1,000 live births (2024), so roughly 2 in every thousand babies do not reach their first birthday. The fertility rate is 2.10 births per woman (2024) — close to replacement level. Public spending on education is 1.7% of output (2023), which is the share of national resources the simulation's schooling decisions are competing for. 100.0% of people live in urban areas (2024), so starting in a city or the capital is the usual case rather than the exception.

Other countries in Europe & Central Asia

Where Monaco sits within Europe & Central Asia

Of the 58 countries in Europe & Central Asia that report life expectancy, Monaco sits above the regional median, at 86.5 years against a regional median of 79.9. 0 countries report a higher figure and 57 report a lower one.

IndicatorMonacoEurope & Central Asia medianEurope & Central Asia range
Life expectancy86.579.970.2 – 86.5
Infant mortality2.23.41.2 – 30.4
Fertility rate2.11.41.0 – 3.5
Urban population100.0%69.1%14.7% – 100.0%
Education spending1.7%4.6%1.7% – 7.3%

Ranges cover every country in the region that reports the indicator, in the year each country last reported it. Medians are unweighted, so a large country and a small one count the same.

Where Monaco shows up in the topics

These pages put Monaco's figures next to the other 216 countries, for the indicators that shape the decisions in the simulation.

About these figures

The statistics above are national averages from the World Bank Open Data, retrieved 2026-11-01 and released under World Bank data is released under CC BY 4.0. National averages do not describe any individual life, and this page does not rank Monaco against other countries. Life expectancy reflects a country's mortality conditions as a whole, which include healthcare access, income distribution, nutrition, sanitation and public safety — the simulation uses it as a risk curve, not as a measure of the people who live there.

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