Livability · rank 134/167
Is 🇧🇯 Benin (Porto-Novo) a good place to live?
Quality score 47/100 against essentials of $676/month.
The five metrics
Internet 9 22.4 Mbps median broadband, 34% online
Safety 93 1.1 homicides/100k (2017)
Healthcare 38 UHC service coverage 38/100 (2023)
Air quality 48 PM2.5 28.2 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
- weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.41 · corruption control -0.24 · stability -0.4 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $25.66 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $15.96/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($676) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 3.0× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.4× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.4× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇱🇸 Lesotho — quality 46.9, essentials $676/mo
- 🇸🇿 Eswatini — quality 46.7, essentials $676/mo
- 🇸🇬 Singapore — quality 89.5, essentials $1,298/mo
- 🇦🇴 Angola — quality 48.1, essentials $685/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Benin
Frequently asked questions
- Is Benin a good place to live for remote workers?
- Benin scores 47/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 22.4 Mbps, safety 93, healthcare 38, air quality 48; English not scored) — rank 134 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Benin?
- Median fixed broadband is around 22.4 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Benin?
- Single-person essentials run about $676/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.4× essentials).