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title: "Is Madagascar a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Madagascar (Antananarivo): 141.3 Mbps internet, healthcare 33/100, air quality 84/100 — essentials ≈ $548/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/madagascar/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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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](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

- [🇵🇰 Pakistan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/pakistan/) — quality 39.7, essentials $379/mo
- [🇵🇾 Paraguay](https://geo-parity.com/livability/paraguay/) — quality 74.9, essentials $701/mo
- [🇬🇪 Georgia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/georgia/) — quality 64, essentials $599/mo
- [🇹🇳 Tunisia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tunisia/) — quality 55.9, essentials $541/mo

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

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