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title: "Is Gambia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Gambia (Banjul): 36.9 Mbps internet, healthcare 53/100, air quality 20/100 — essentials ≈ $482/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/gambia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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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](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

- [🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates](https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-arab-emirates/) — quality 76.7, essentials $1,266/mo
- [🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago](https://geo-parity.com/livability/trinidad-and-tobago/) — quality 66.3, essentials $1,097/mo
- [🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo](https://geo-parity.com/livability/republic-of-the-congo/) — quality 39.7, essentials $657/mo
- [🇯🇵 Japan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/japan/) — quality 83.6, essentials $1,393/mo

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

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/gambia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json