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title: "Is Burundi a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Burundi (Bujumbura): 21 Mbps internet, safety 66/100, healthcare 48/100 — essentials ≈ $478/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 140/167

# Is 🇧🇮 Burundi (Bujumbura) a good place to live?

Quality score **45/100** against essentials of **$478/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 8 21 Mbps median broadband, 8.6% online

Safety 66 5.6 homicides/100k (2016)

Healthcare 48 UHC service coverage 48/100 (2023)

Air quality 59 PM2.5 23.6 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 -1.3 · corruption control -1.46 · stability -1.38 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $64.88 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $8.08/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($478) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.2× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 6.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 10.5× | 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

- [🇷🇼 Rwanda](https://geo-parity.com/livability/rwanda/) — quality 48.8, essentials $512/mo
- [🇲🇩 Moldova](https://geo-parity.com/livability/moldova/) — quality 82.6, essentials $855/mo
- [🇷🇴 Romania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/romania/) — quality 89.3, essentials $918/mo
- [🇲🇼 Malawi](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malawi/) — quality 57, essentials $617/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Burundi a good place to live for remote workers?**: Burundi scores 45/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 21 Mbps, safety 66, healthcare 48, air quality 59; English not scored) — rank 140 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Burundi?**: Median fixed broadband is around 21 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Burundi?**: Single-person essentials run about $478/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (6.3× 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/burundi/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json