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title: "Is Botswana a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Botswana (Gaborone): 46.7 Mbps internet, safety 32/100, healthcare 60/100 — essentials ≈ $736/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 132/167

# Is 🇧🇼 Botswana (Gaborone) a good place to live?

Quality score **47/100** against essentials of **$736/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 19 46.7 Mbps median broadband, 57.5% online

Safety 32 11.4 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 60 UHC service coverage 60/100 (2023)

Air quality 78 PM2.5 14.9 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**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.31 · corruption control 0.63 · stability 1.03 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $49.97 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $15.77/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($736) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.8× | 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

- [🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saudi-arabia/) — quality 61, essentials $949/mo
- [🇵🇪 Peru](https://geo-parity.com/livability/peru/) — quality 67.9, essentials $1,046/mo
- [🇲🇹 Malta](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malta/) — quality 91.3, essentials $1,403/mo
- [🇳🇦 Namibia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/namibia/) — quality 48.8, essentials $774/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Botswana a good place to live for remote workers?**: Botswana scores 47/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 46.7 Mbps, safety 32, healthcare 60, air quality 78; English not scored) — rank 132 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Botswana?**: Median fixed broadband is around 46.7 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Botswana?**: Single-person essentials run about $736/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.1× 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/botswana/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json