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title: "Is El Salvador a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "El Salvador (San Salvador): 152.9 Mbps internet, safety 53/100, healthcare 79/100 — essentials ≈ $840/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 84/167

# Is 🇸🇻 El Salvador (San Salvador) a good place to live?

Quality score **62/100** against essentials of **$840/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 61 152.9 Mbps median broadband, 66.5% online

Safety 53 7.9 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 79 UHC service coverage 79/100 (2023)

Air quality 56 PM2.5 25 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 -0.71 · corruption control -0.58 · stability 0.01 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $25 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $14/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($840) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.4× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.0× | 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

- [🇪🇨 Ecuador](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ecuador/) — quality 63.5, essentials $842/mo
- [🇰🇭 Cambodia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/cambodia/) — quality 50.4, essentials $692/mo
- [🇧🇦 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

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/el-salvador/) · [retiring in El Salvador](https://geo-parity.com/fire/el-salvador/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is El Salvador a good place to live for remote workers?**: El Salvador scores 62/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 152.9 Mbps, safety 53, healthcare 79, air quality 56; English not scored) — rank 84 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in El Salvador?**: Median fixed broadband is around 152.9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in El Salvador?**: Single-person essentials run about $840/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/el-salvador/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json