Livability · rank 143/167
Is 🇬🇦 Gabon (Libreville) a good place to live?
Quality score 45/100 against essentials of $720/month.
The five metrics
Internet 27 66.8 Mbps median broadband, 68.7% online
Healthcare 48 UHC service coverage 48/100 (2023)
Air quality 60 PM2.5 22.9 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 -1.16 · corruption control -0.94 · stability -0.28 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $40.1 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $24.06/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($720) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 2.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.2× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.9× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇿🇦 South Africa — quality 51.2, essentials $821/mo
- 🇧🇷 Brazil — quality 57.6, essentials $925/mo
- 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — quality 40.2, essentials $646/mo
- 🇨🇿 Czechia — quality 78.5, essentials $1,266/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Gabon
Frequently asked questions
- Is Gabon a good place to live for remote workers?
- Gabon scores 45/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 66.8 Mbps, healthcare 48, air quality 60; English not scored) — rank 143 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Gabon?
- Median fixed broadband is around 66.8 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Gabon?
- Single-person essentials run about $720/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.2× essentials).