Livability · rank 144/167
Is 🇱🇦 Laos (Vientiane) a good place to live?
Quality score 45/100 against essentials of $377/month.
The five metrics
Internet 20 49.6 Mbps median broadband, 65.6% online
Healthcare 64 UHC service coverage 64/100 (2023)
Air quality 51 PM2.5 26.9 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 -0.74 · corruption control -0.98 · stability 0.56 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $7.58 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $1.84/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($377) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 5.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 8.0× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 13.3× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam — quality 64.4, essentials $539/mo
- 🇸🇷 Suriname — quality 72.7, essentials $605/mo
- 🇷🇺 Russia — quality 69.6, essentials $592/mo
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia — quality 64, essentials $528/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Laos
Frequently asked questions
- Is Laos a good place to live for remote workers?
- Laos scores 45/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 49.6 Mbps, healthcare 64, air quality 51; English not scored) — rank 144 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Laos?
- Median fixed broadband is around 49.6 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Laos?
- Single-person essentials run about $377/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (8.0× essentials).