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title: "Is Azerbaijan a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Azerbaijan (Baku): 173.6 Mbps internet, safety 87/100, healthcare 67/100 — essentials ≈ $552/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 65/167

# Is 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan (Baku) a good place to live?

Quality score **70/100** against essentials of **$552/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 69 173.6 Mbps median broadband, 90.8% online

Safety 87 2.2 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 67 UHC service coverage 67/100 (2023)

Air quality 58 PM2.5 24 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.49 · corruption control -0.78 · stability -0.14 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $7.65 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.47/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($552) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.6× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.4× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 9.1× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇲🇾 Malaysia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malaysia/) — quality 79.2, essentials $617/mo
- [🇹🇯 Tajikistan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tajikistan/) — quality 55, essentials $439/mo
- [🇹🇭 Thailand](https://geo-parity.com/livability/thailand/) — quality 67.6, essentials $545/mo
- [🇱🇰 Sri Lanka](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sri-lanka/) — quality 57.5, essentials $474/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/azerbaijan/) · [retiring in Azerbaijan](https://geo-parity.com/fire/azerbaijan/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Azerbaijan a good place to live for remote workers?**: Azerbaijan scores 70/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 173.6 Mbps, safety 87, healthcare 67, air quality 58; English not scored) — rank 65 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Azerbaijan?**: Median fixed broadband is around 173.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Azerbaijan?**: Single-person essentials run about $552/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.4× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/azerbaijan/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json