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title: "Is Iran a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Iran (Tehran): 35.7 Mbps internet, safety 86/100, healthcare 81/100 — essentials ≈ $493/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 104/167

# Is 🇮🇷 Iran (Tehran) a good place to live?

Quality score **55/100** against essentials of **$493/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 14 35.7 Mbps median broadband, 85.3% online

Safety 86 2.4 homicides/100k (2014)

Healthcare 81 UHC service coverage 81/100 (2023)

Air quality 38 PM2.5 33.1 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 -1.15 · stability -1.58 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $0.55 /mo broadband
- ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($493) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 6.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 10.1× | 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

- [🇩🇿 Algeria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/algeria/) — quality 69, essentials $621/mo
- [🇰🇿 Kazakhstan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kazakhstan/) — quality 71.7, essentials $639/mo
- [🇳🇵 Nepal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nepal/) — quality 49, essentials $433/mo
- [🇵🇭 Philippines](https://geo-parity.com/livability/philippines/) — quality 73.4, essentials $637/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Iran a good place to live for remote workers?**: Iran scores 55/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 35.7 Mbps, safety 86, healthcare 81, air quality 38; English not scored) — rank 104 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Iran?**: Median fixed broadband is around 35.7 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Iran?**: Single-person essentials run about $493/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (6.1× 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/iran/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json