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title: "Is Bolivia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Bolivia (La Paz): 123.8 Mbps internet, safety 73/100, healthcare 67/100 — essentials ≈ $717/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/bolivia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 75/167

# Is 🇧🇴 Bolivia (La Paz) a good place to live?

Quality score **66/100** against essentials of **$717/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 50 123.8 Mbps median broadband, 79.7% online

Safety 73 4.4 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 67 UHC service coverage 67/100 (2023)

Air quality 74 PM2.5 16.9 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.27 · corruption control -1 · stability -0.55 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $25.9 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $14.18/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($717) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.2× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.0× | 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

- [🇧🇩 Bangladesh](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bangladesh/) — quality 44.6, essentials $484/mo
- [🇧🇬 Bulgaria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bulgaria/) — quality 76.9, essentials $842/mo
- [🇲🇼 Malawi](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malawi/) — quality 57, essentials $617/mo
- [🇯🇴 Jordan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/jordan/) — quality 77.4, essentials $852/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Bolivia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Bolivia scores 66/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 123.8 Mbps, safety 73, healthcare 67, air quality 74; English not scored) — rank 75 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Bolivia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 123.8 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Bolivia?**: Single-person essentials run about $717/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.2× 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/bolivia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json