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title: "Is Cameroon a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Cameroon (Yaounde): 13.7 Mbps internet, safety 59/100, healthcare 48/100 — essentials ≈ $630/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 165/167

# Is 🇨🇲 Cameroon (Yaounde) a good place to live?

Quality score **28/100** against essentials of **$630/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 5 13.7 Mbps median broadband, 46.3% online

Safety 59 6.8 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 48 UHC service coverage 48/100 (2023)

Air quality 0 PM2.5 55.4 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.25 · corruption control -1.22 · stability -1.56 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $24.06 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $16.04/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($630) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.2× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.8× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.9× | 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

- [🇩🇪 Germany](https://geo-parity.com/livability/germany/) — quality 81.8, essentials $1,834/mo
- [🇦🇹 Austria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/austria/) — quality 82.5, essentials $1,840/mo
- [🇫🇮 Finland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/finland/) — quality 88.9, essentials $1,976/mo
- [🇬🇧 United Kingdom](https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-kingdom/) — quality 90.4, essentials $2,060/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Cameroon a good place to live for remote workers?**: Cameroon scores 28/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 13.7 Mbps, safety 59, healthcare 48, air quality 0; English not scored) — rank 165 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Cameroon?**: Median fixed broadband is around 13.7 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Cameroon?**: Single-person essentials run about $630/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.8× 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/cameroon/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json