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title: "Is Guatemala a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Guatemala (Guatemala City): 144.7 Mbps internet, safety 0/100, healthcare 58/100 — essentials ≈ $855/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 147/167

# Is 🇬🇹 Guatemala (Guatemala City) a good place to live?

Quality score **43/100** against essentials of **$855/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 58 144.7 Mbps median broadband, 60.2% online

Safety 0 23.4 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 58 UHC service coverage 58/100 (2023)

Air quality 57 PM2.5 24.5 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 -0.96 · corruption control -0.95 · stability -0.21 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $28.4 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $14.91/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($855) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.3× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.5× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.9× | 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

- [🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-vincent-and-the-grenadines/) — quality 61, essentials $1,201/mo
- [🇹🇬 Togo](https://geo-parity.com/livability/togo/) — quality 31.7, essentials $630/mo
- [🇿🇼 Zimbabwe](https://geo-parity.com/livability/zimbabwe/) — quality 52.8, essentials $1,049/mo
- [🇮🇶 Iraq](https://geo-parity.com/livability/iraq/) — quality 36.7, essentials $738/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Guatemala a good place to live for remote workers?**: Guatemala scores 43/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 144.7 Mbps, safety 0, healthcare 58, air quality 57; English not scored) — rank 147 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Guatemala?**: Median fixed broadband is around 144.7 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Guatemala?**: Single-person essentials run about $855/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.5× 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/guatemala/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json