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title: "Is Iraq a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Iraq (Baghdad): 46.6 Mbps internet, safety 43/100, healthcare 64/100 — essentials ≈ $738/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 157/167

# Is 🇮🇶 Iraq (Baghdad) a good place to live?

Quality score **37/100** against essentials of **$738/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 19 46.6 Mbps median broadband, 81.5% online

Safety 43 9.5 homicides/100k (2013)

Healthcare 64 UHC service coverage 64/100 (2023)

Air quality 21 PM2.5 40.4 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 -1.36 · corruption control -1.21 · stability -2.06 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $26.92 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $11.54/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($738) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.8× | 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

- [🇫🇷 France](https://geo-parity.com/livability/france/) — quality 84.8, essentials $1,716/mo
- [🇩🇲 Dominica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/dominica/) — quality 53.8, essentials $1,089/mo
- [🇮🇹 Italy](https://geo-parity.com/livability/italy/) — quality 74.7, essentials $1,513/mo
- [🇿🇼 Zimbabwe](https://geo-parity.com/livability/zimbabwe/) — quality 52.8, essentials $1,049/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Iraq a good place to live for remote workers?**: Iraq scores 37/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 46.6 Mbps, safety 43, healthcare 64, air quality 21; English not scored) — rank 157 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Iraq?**: Median fixed broadband is around 46.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Iraq?**: Single-person essentials run about $738/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.1× 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/iraq/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json