Livability · rank 93/167
Is 🇲🇬 Madagascar (Antananarivo) a good place to live?
Quality score 58/100 against essentials of $548/month.
The five metrics
Internet 57 141.3 Mbps median broadband, 18.7% online
Healthcare 33 UHC service coverage 33/100 (2023)
Air quality 84 PM2.5 12.2 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 -0.88 · corruption control -1.01 · stability -0.48 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $10.46 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.68/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($548) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 3.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.5× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 9.1× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan — quality 39.7, essentials $379/mo
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay — quality 74.9, essentials $701/mo
- 🇬🇪 Georgia — quality 64, essentials $599/mo
- 🇹🇳 Tunisia — quality 55.9, essentials $541/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Madagascar
Frequently asked questions
- Is Madagascar a good place to live for remote workers?
- Madagascar scores 58/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 141.3 Mbps, healthcare 33, air quality 84; English not scored) — rank 93 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Madagascar?
- Median fixed broadband is around 141.3 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Madagascar?
- Single-person essentials run about $548/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.5× essentials).