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title: "Is Kenya a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Kenya (Nairobi): 37.4 Mbps internet, safety 71/100, healthcare 57/100 — essentials ≈ $608/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 111/167

# Is 🇰🇪 Kenya (Nairobi) a good place to live?

Quality score **54/100** against essentials of **$608/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 15 37.4 Mbps median broadband, 35% online

Safety 71 4.9 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 57 UHC service coverage 57/100 (2023)

Air quality 71 PM2.5 18.2 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 -0.46 · corruption control -0.8 · stability -1.36 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $23.19 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $15.46/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($608) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.2× | 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

- [🇫🇯 Fiji](https://geo-parity.com/livability/fiji/) — quality 67.4, essentials $766/mo
- [🇲🇪 Montenegro](https://geo-parity.com/livability/montenegro/) — quality 71.1, essentials $804/mo
- [🇳🇮 Nicaragua](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nicaragua/) — quality 54.8, essentials $628/mo
- [🇿🇲 Zambia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/zambia/) — quality 54.2, essentials $610/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Kenya a good place to live for remote workers?**: Kenya scores 54/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 37.4 Mbps, safety 71, healthcare 57, air quality 71; English not scored) — rank 111 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Kenya?**: Median fixed broadband is around 37.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Kenya?**: Single-person essentials run about $608/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.9× 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/kenya/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json