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title: "Is Egypt a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Egypt (Cairo): 27 Mbps internet, safety 92/100, healthcare 71/100 — essentials ≈ $254/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 146/167

# Is 🇪🇬 Egypt (Cairo) a good place to live?

Quality score **44/100** against essentials of **$254/month**. Very low costs; Cairo air and traffic are the trade.

## The five metrics

Internet 11 27 Mbps median broadband, 74.6% online

Safety 92 1.3 homicides/100k (2017)

Healthcare 71 UHC service coverage 71/100 (2023)

Air quality 0 PM2.5 53.6 µg/m³ (2023)

English 45 day-to-day usability

## 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 -0.75 · corruption control -0.83 · stability -0.98 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $4.74 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $4.39/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($254) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 7.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 11.8× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 19.7× | 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/).

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/egypt/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇸🇾 Syria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/syria/) — quality 40.4, essentials $258/mo
- [🇺🇦 Ukraine](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ukraine/) — quality 78.4, essentials $523/mo
- [🇧🇾 Belarus](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belarus/) — quality 74.1, essentials $499/mo
- [🇳🇬 Nigeria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nigeria/) — quality 29.8, essentials $205/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/cost-of-living/united-states-vs-egypt/) · [retiring in Egypt](https://geo-parity.com/fire/egypt/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Egypt a good place to live for remote workers?**: Egypt scores 44/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 27 Mbps, safety 92, healthcare 71, air quality 0, english 45) — rank 146 of 167. Very low costs; Cairo air and traffic are the trade.
- **How fast is the internet in Egypt?**: Median fixed broadband is around 27 Mbps. Very low costs; Cairo air and traffic are the trade.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Egypt?**: Single-person essentials run about $254/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (11.8× 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/egypt/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json