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title: "Is Guinea-Bissau a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Guinea-Bissau (Bissau): 59 Mbps internet, safety 93/100, healthcare 43/100 — essentials ≈ $653/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 135/167

# Is 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau (Bissau) a good place to live?

Quality score **47/100** against essentials of **$653/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 24 59 Mbps median broadband, 29.8% online

Safety 93 1.1 homicides/100k (2017)

Healthcare 43 UHC service coverage 43/100 (2023)

Air quality 28 PM2.5 37.5 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.23 · corruption control -1.35 · stability -0.62 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $33.28 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $12.03/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($653) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.1× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.7× | 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

- [🇲🇷 Mauritania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mauritania/) — quality 42.8, essentials $599/mo
- [🇨🇱 Chile](https://geo-parity.com/livability/chile/) — quality 70.8, essentials $996/mo
- [🇱🇧 Lebanon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lebanon/) — quality 53.1, essentials $748/mo
- [🇰🇭 Cambodia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/cambodia/) — quality 50.4, essentials $692/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/guinea-bissau/) · [retiring in Guinea-Bissau](https://geo-parity.com/fire/guinea-bissau/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Guinea-Bissau a good place to live for remote workers?**: Guinea-Bissau scores 47/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 59 Mbps, safety 93, healthcare 43, air quality 28; English not scored) — rank 135 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Guinea-Bissau?**: Median fixed broadband is around 59 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Guinea-Bissau?**: Single-person essentials run about $653/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.6× 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/guinea-bissau/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json