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title: "Is Bahrain a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Bahrain (Manama): 150.3 Mbps internet, safety 99/100, healthcare 78/100 — essentials ≈ $910/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 87/167

# Is 🇧🇭 Bahrain (Manama) a good place to live?

Quality score **61/100** against essentials of **$910/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 60 150.3 Mbps median broadband, 100% online

Safety 99 0.2 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 78 UHC service coverage 78/100 (2023)

Air quality 8 PM2.5 46.2 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**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.17 · corruption control 0.25 · stability -0.28 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $35.11 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $22.61/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($910) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.5× | 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

- [🇬🇭 Ghana](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ghana/) — quality 45, essentials $669/mo
- [🇸🇰 Slovakia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovakia/) — quality 84.9, essentials $1,256/mo
- [🇭🇷 Croatia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/croatia/) — quality 75.1, essentials $1,109/mo
- [🇰🇷 South Korea](https://geo-parity.com/livability/south-korea/) — quality 80.6, essentials $1,206/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Bahrain a good place to live for remote workers?**: Bahrain scores 61/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 150.3 Mbps, safety 99, healthcare 78, air quality 8; English not scored) — rank 87 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Bahrain?**: Median fixed broadband is around 150.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Bahrain?**: Single-person essentials run about $910/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.3× 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/bahrain/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json