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title: "Is Burkina Faso a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou): 63.9 Mbps internet, safety 92/100, healthcare 47/100 — essentials ≈ $678/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 131/167

# Is 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou) a good place to live?

Quality score **48/100** against essentials of **$678/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 26 63.9 Mbps median broadband, 28.3% online

Safety 92 1.3 homicides/100k (2017)

Healthcare 47 UHC service coverage 47/100 (2023)

Air quality 26 PM2.5 38.4 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 -0.88 · corruption control -0.25 · stability -1.91 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $24.06 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $11.23/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($678) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.9× | 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

- [🇦🇴 Angola](https://geo-parity.com/livability/angola/) — quality 48.1, essentials $685/mo
- [🇨🇱 Chile](https://geo-parity.com/livability/chile/) — quality 70.8, essentials $996/mo
- [🇱🇧 Lebanon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lebanon/) — quality 53.1, essentials $748/mo
- [🇧🇯 Benin](https://geo-parity.com/livability/benin/) — quality 47, essentials $676/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/burkina-faso/) · [retiring in Burkina Faso](https://geo-parity.com/fire/burkina-faso/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Burkina Faso a good place to live for remote workers?**: Burkina Faso scores 48/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 63.9 Mbps, safety 92, healthcare 47, air quality 26; English not scored) — rank 131 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Burkina Faso?**: Median fixed broadband is around 63.9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Burkina Faso?**: Single-person essentials run about $678/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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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/burkina-faso/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json