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title: "Is Mali a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Mali (Bamako): 66.8 Mbps internet, healthcare 41/100, air quality 29/100 — essentials ≈ $608/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/mali/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 160/167

# Is 🇲🇱 Mali (Bamako) a good place to live?

Quality score **32/100** against essentials of **$608/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 27 66.8 Mbps median broadband, 36.8% online

Healthcare 41 UHC service coverage 41/100 (2023)

Air quality 29 PM2.5 36.8 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.09 · corruption control -0.98 · stability -2.49 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $15.88 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $12.83/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($608) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.2× | 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

- [🇨🇮 Ivory Coast](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ivory-coast/) — quality 38.5, essentials $727/mo
- [🇦🇩 Andorra](https://geo-parity.com/livability/andorra/) — quality 78.2, essentials $1,500/mo
- [🇨🇻 Cabo Verde](https://geo-parity.com/livability/cabo-verde/) — quality 50.1, essentials $967/mo
- [🇪🇪 Estonia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/estonia/) — quality 81.2, essentials $1,492/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Mali a good place to live for remote workers?**: Mali scores 32/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 66.8 Mbps, healthcare 41, air quality 29; English not scored) — rank 160 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Mali?**: Median fixed broadband is around 66.8 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Mali?**: Single-person essentials run about $608/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.9× 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/mali/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json