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title: "Is Maldives a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Maldives (Male): 68.7 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 71/100 — essentials ≈ $1,186/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 62/167

# Is 🇲🇻 Maldives (Male) a good place to live?

Quality score **71/100** against essentials of **$1,186/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 27 68.7 Mbps median broadband, 85.2% online

Safety 96 0.6 homicides/100k (2019)

Healthcare 71 UHC service coverage 71/100 (2023)

Air quality 89 PM2.5 9.8 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**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.04 · corruption control -0.34 · stability -0.05 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $17.52 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $24.53/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,186) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.7× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.5× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 4.2× | 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

- [🇶🇦 Qatar](https://geo-parity.com/livability/qatar/) — quality 71, essentials $1,188/mo
- [🇪🇸 Spain](https://geo-parity.com/livability/spain/) — quality 86.2, essentials $1,438/mo
- [🇯🇵 Japan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/japan/) — quality 83.6, essentials $1,393/mo
- [🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo](https://geo-parity.com/livability/republic-of-the-congo/) — quality 39.7, essentials $657/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Maldives a good place to live for remote workers?**: Maldives scores 71/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 68.7 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 71, air quality 89; English not scored) — rank 62 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Maldives?**: Median fixed broadband is around 68.7 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Maldives?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,186/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (2.5× 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/maldives/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json