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title: "Is Laos a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Laos (Vientiane): 49.6 Mbps internet, healthcare 64/100, air quality 51/100 — essentials ≈ $377/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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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](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

- [🇻🇳 Vietnam](https://geo-parity.com/livability/vietnam/) — quality 64.4, essentials $539/mo
- [🇸🇷 Suriname](https://geo-parity.com/livability/suriname/) — quality 72.7, essentials $605/mo
- [🇷🇺 Russia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/russia/) — quality 69.6, essentials $592/mo
- [🇮🇩 Indonesia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/indonesia/) — quality 64, essentials $528/mo

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

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/laos/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json