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title: "Is Latvia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Latvia (Riga): 196.4 Mbps internet, safety 85/100, healthcare 77/100 — essentials ≈ $1,245/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/latvia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 32/167

# Is 🇱🇻 Latvia (Riga) a good place to live?

Quality score **82/100** against essentials of **$1,245/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 79 196.4 Mbps median broadband, 92.7% online

Safety 85 2.5 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 77 UHC service coverage 77/100 (2023)

Air quality 87 PM2.5 10.9 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.09 · corruption control 0.83 · stability 0.62 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $18.41 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.5/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,245) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.6× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.4× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 4.0× | 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/).

🛂 **Digital Nomad Visa** — income floor ≈ $4,200/month. [Visa finder →](https://geo-parity.com/nomad-visas/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇸🇳 Senegal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/senegal/) — quality 46, essentials $699/mo
- [🇸🇮 Slovenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovenia/) — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo
- [🇵🇹 Portugal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/portugal/) — quality 88.8, essentials $1,345/mo
- [🇱🇾 Libya](https://geo-parity.com/livability/libya/) — quality 47.1, essentials $713/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Latvia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Latvia scores 82/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 196.4 Mbps, safety 85, healthcare 77, air quality 87; English not scored) — rank 32 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Latvia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 196.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Latvia?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,245/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.4× 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/latvia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json