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title: "Is Cambodia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Cambodia (Phnom Penh): 63 Mbps internet, healthcare 62/100, air quality 64/100 — essentials ≈ $692/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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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](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

- [🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau](https://geo-parity.com/livability/guinea-bissau/) — quality 46.9, essentials $653/mo
- [🇸🇻 El Salvador](https://geo-parity.com/livability/el-salvador/) — quality 62.3, essentials $840/mo
- [🇲🇷 Mauritania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mauritania/) — quality 42.8, essentials $599/mo
- [🇨🇱 Chile](https://geo-parity.com/livability/chile/) — quality 70.8, essentials $996/mo

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

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/cambodia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json