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title: "Is Ethiopia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Ethiopia (Addis Ababa): 41.8 Mbps internet, safety 49/100, healthcare 33/100 — essentials ≈ $646/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 153/167

# Is 🇪🇹 Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) a good place to live?

Quality score **40/100** against essentials of **$646/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 17 41.8 Mbps median broadband, 21.9% online

Safety 49 8.5 homicides/100k (2012)

Healthcare 33 UHC service coverage 33/100 (2023)

Air quality 62 PM2.5 22.3 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 -1.05 · corruption control -0.44 · stability -1.88 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $5.52 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $3.59/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($646) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.1× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.7× | 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/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇧🇷 Brazil](https://geo-parity.com/livability/brazil/) — quality 57.6, essentials $925/mo
- [🇿🇦 South Africa](https://geo-parity.com/livability/south-africa/) — quality 51.2, essentials $821/mo
- [🇬🇦 Gabon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/gabon/) — quality 44.9, essentials $720/mo
- [🇨🇿 Czechia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/czechia/) — quality 78.5, essentials $1,266/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Ethiopia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Ethiopia scores 40/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 41.8 Mbps, safety 49, healthcare 33, air quality 62; English not scored) — rank 153 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Ethiopia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 41.8 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Ethiopia?**: Single-person essentials run about $646/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.6× 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/ethiopia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json