Livability · rank 136/167
Is 🇱🇸 Lesotho (Maseru) a good place to live?
Quality score 47/100 against essentials of $676/month.
The five metrics
Internet 17 42.1 Mbps median broadband, 51.8% online
Healthcare 55 UHC service coverage 55/100 (2023)
Air quality 69 PM2.5 19.1 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 -0.41 · corruption control -0.3 · stability -0.26 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $5.35 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $12.97/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($676) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 3.0× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.4× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.4× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇧🇯 Benin — quality 47, essentials $676/mo
- 🇸🇿 Eswatini — quality 46.7, essentials $676/mo
- 🇸🇬 Singapore — quality 89.5, essentials $1,298/mo
- 🇦🇴 Angola — quality 48.1, essentials $685/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Lesotho
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lesotho a good place to live for remote workers?
- Lesotho scores 47/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 42.1 Mbps, healthcare 55, air quality 69; English not scored) — rank 136 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Lesotho?
- Median fixed broadband is around 42.1 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Lesotho?
- Single-person essentials run about $676/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.4× essentials).