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title: "Is Bhutan a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Bhutan (Thimphu): 61.4 Mbps internet, safety 85/100, healthcare 69/100 — essentials ≈ $418/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 99/167

# Is 🇧🇹 Bhutan (Thimphu) a good place to live?

Quality score **56/100** against essentials of **$418/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 25 61.4 Mbps median broadband, 91.3% online

Safety 85 2.5 homicides/100k (2020)

Healthcare 69 UHC service coverage 69/100 (2023)

Air quality 46 PM2.5 29.5 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.79 · corruption control 1.47 · stability 1.35 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $5.76 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.84/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($418) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 7.2× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 11.9× | 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

- [🇺🇿 Uzbekistan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/uzbekistan/) — quality 64, essentials $478/mo
- [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/livability/india/) — quality 55.9, essentials $408/mo
- [🇲🇾 Malaysia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malaysia/) — quality 79.2, essentials $617/mo
- [🇦🇿 Azerbaijan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/azerbaijan/) — quality 70.4, essentials $552/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Bhutan a good place to live for remote workers?**: Bhutan scores 56/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 61.4 Mbps, safety 85, healthcare 69, air quality 46; English not scored) — rank 99 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Bhutan?**: Median fixed broadband is around 61.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Bhutan?**: Single-person essentials run about $418/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (7.2× 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/bhutan/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json