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title: "Is Benin a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Benin (Porto-Novo): 22.4 Mbps internet, safety 93/100, healthcare 38/100 — essentials ≈ $676/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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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](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

- [🇱🇸 Lesotho](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lesotho/) — quality 46.9, essentials $676/mo
- [🇸🇿 Eswatini](https://geo-parity.com/livability/eswatini/) — quality 46.7, essentials $676/mo
- [🇸🇬 Singapore](https://geo-parity.com/livability/singapore/) — quality 89.5, essentials $1,298/mo
- [🇦🇴 Angola](https://geo-parity.com/livability/angola/) — quality 48.1, essentials $685/mo

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

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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