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title: "Is Kyrgyzstan a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek): 93.6 Mbps internet, safety 90/100, healthcare 74/100 — essentials ≈ $570/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/kyrgyzstan/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 72/167

# Is 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) a good place to live?

Quality score **66/100** against essentials of **$570/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 37 93.6 Mbps median broadband, 92% online

Safety 90 1.7 homicides/100k (2020)

Healthcare 74 UHC service coverage 74/100 (2023)

Air quality 64 PM2.5 21.3 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 -0.94 · corruption control -1.14 · stability -0.5 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $10.89 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $2.87/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($570) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.5× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.8× | 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

- [🇧🇳 Brunei](https://geo-parity.com/livability/brunei/) — quality 79.9, essentials $687/mo
- [🇷🇺 Russia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/russia/) — quality 69.6, essentials $592/mo
- [🇵🇭 Philippines](https://geo-parity.com/livability/philippines/) — quality 73.4, essentials $637/mo
- [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/livability/laos/) — quality 44.9, essentials $377/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Kyrgyzstan a good place to live for remote workers?**: Kyrgyzstan scores 66/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 93.6 Mbps, safety 90, healthcare 74, air quality 64; English not scored) — rank 72 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Kyrgyzstan?**: Median fixed broadband is around 93.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Kyrgyzstan?**: Single-person essentials run about $570/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.3× 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/kyrgyzstan/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json