Livability · rank 70/167
Is 🇫🇯 Fiji (Suva) a good place to live?
Quality score 68/100 against essentials of $766/month.
The five metrics
Internet 16 39.3 Mbps median broadband, 74.7% online
Safety 88 2.1 homicides/100k (2023)
Healthcare 69 UHC service coverage 69/100 (2023)
Air quality 97 PM2.5 6.3 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
- middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.31 · corruption control 0.56 · stability 0.7 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $6.78 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $13.7/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($766) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 2.6× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 3.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.5× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇰🇪 Kenya — quality 53.5, essentials $608/mo
- 🇲🇪 Montenegro — quality 71.1, essentials $804/mo
- 🇳🇮 Nicaragua — quality 54.8, essentials $628/mo
- 🇿🇲 Zambia — quality 54.2, essentials $610/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Fiji
Frequently asked questions
- Is Fiji a good place to live for remote workers?
- Fiji scores 68/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 39.3 Mbps, safety 88, healthcare 69, air quality 97; English not scored) — rank 70 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Fiji?
- Median fixed broadband is around 39.3 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Fiji?
- Single-person essentials run about $766/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.9× essentials).