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title: "Is Ecuador a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Ecuador (Quito): 209.5 Mbps internet, safety 0/100, healthcare 78/100 — essentials ≈ $842/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 82/167

# Is 🇪🇨 Ecuador (Quito) a good place to live?

Quality score **64/100** against essentials of **$842/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 84 209.5 Mbps median broadband, 77.2% online

Safety 0 45.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 78 UHC service coverage 78/100 (2023)

Air quality 92 PM2.5 8.5 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 -0.97 · corruption control -0.78 · stability -0.72 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $24.73 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.5/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($842) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.4× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.9× | 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

- [🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bosnia-and-herzegovina/) — quality 61.1, essentials $809/mo
- [🇲🇳 Mongolia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mongolia/) — quality 49.8, essentials $657/mo
- [🇭🇺 Hungary](https://geo-parity.com/livability/hungary/) — quality 83.2, essentials $1,094/mo
- [🇸🇻 El Salvador](https://geo-parity.com/livability/el-salvador/) — quality 62.3, essentials $840/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Ecuador a good place to live for remote workers?**: Ecuador scores 64/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 209.5 Mbps, safety 0, healthcare 78, air quality 92; English not scored) — rank 82 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Ecuador?**: Median fixed broadband is around 209.5 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Ecuador?**: Single-person essentials run about $842/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.6× 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/ecuador/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json