Livability · rank 119/167
Is 🇰🇭 Cambodia (Phnom Penh) a good place to live?
Quality score 50/100 against essentials of $692/month.
The five metrics
Internet 25 63 Mbps median broadband, 68.5% online
Healthcare 62 UHC service coverage 62/100 (2023)
Air quality 64 PM2.5 21 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 -1.06 · corruption control -1.23 · stability 0.13 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $15 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $2/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($692) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 2.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.2× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau — quality 46.9, essentials $653/mo
- 🇸🇻 El Salvador — quality 62.3, essentials $840/mo
- 🇲🇷 Mauritania — quality 42.8, essentials $599/mo
- 🇨🇱 Chile — quality 70.8, essentials $996/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Cambodia
Frequently asked questions
- Is Cambodia a good place to live for remote workers?
- Cambodia scores 50/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 63 Mbps, healthcare 62, air quality 64; English not scored) — rank 119 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Cambodia?
- Median fixed broadband is around 63 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Cambodia?
- Single-person essentials run about $692/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.3× essentials).