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title: "Is Lebanon a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Lebanon (Beirut): 16.2 Mbps internet, safety 87/100, healthcare 67/100 — essentials ≈ $748/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/lebanon/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 112/167

# Is 🇱🇧 Lebanon (Beirut) a good place to live?

Quality score **53/100** against essentials of **$748/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 6 16.2 Mbps median broadband, 80.6% online

Safety 87 2.2 homicides/100k (2020)

Healthcare 67 UHC service coverage 67/100 (2023)

Air quality 52 PM2.5 26.5 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.09 · corruption control -1.3 · stability -1.39 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $5.21 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $12.1/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($748) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.0× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.7× | 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

- [🇨🇱 Chile](https://geo-parity.com/livability/chile/) — quality 70.8, essentials $996/mo
- [🇲🇷 Mauritania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mauritania/) — quality 42.8, essentials $599/mo
- [🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau](https://geo-parity.com/livability/guinea-bissau/) — quality 46.9, essentials $653/mo
- [🇧🇫 Burkina Faso](https://geo-parity.com/livability/burkina-faso/) — quality 47.6, essentials $678/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Lebanon a good place to live for remote workers?**: Lebanon scores 53/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 16.2 Mbps, safety 87, healthcare 67, air quality 52; English not scored) — rank 112 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Lebanon?**: Median fixed broadband is around 16.2 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Lebanon?**: Single-person essentials run about $748/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.0× 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/lebanon/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json