Livability · rank 163/167
Is 🇬🇲 Gambia (Banjul) a good place to live?
Quality score 29/100 against essentials of $482/month.
The five metrics
Internet 15 36.9 Mbps median broadband, 49.5% online
Healthcare 53 UHC service coverage 53/100 (2023)
Air quality 20 PM2.5 40.9 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
- weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.39 · corruption control -0.33 · stability -0.02 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- — /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $12.68/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($482) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 6.2× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 10.4× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates — quality 76.7, essentials $1,266/mo
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago — quality 66.3, essentials $1,097/mo
- 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo — quality 39.7, essentials $657/mo
- 🇯🇵 Japan — quality 83.6, essentials $1,393/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Gambia
Frequently asked questions
- Is Gambia a good place to live for remote workers?
- Gambia scores 29/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 36.9 Mbps, healthcare 53, air quality 20; English not scored) — rank 163 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Gambia?
- Median fixed broadband is around 36.9 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Gambia?
- Single-person essentials run about $482/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (6.2× essentials).