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title: "Is Malta a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Malta (Valletta): 266.4 Mbps internet, safety 97/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $1,403/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 8/167

# Is 🇲🇹 Malta (Valletta) a good place to live?

Quality score **91/100** against essentials of **$1,403/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 266.4 Mbps median broadband, 93.9% online

Safety 97 0.6 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 86 PM2.5 11.2 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.73 · corruption control 0.27 · stability 0.8 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $29.45 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.51/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,403) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.4× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.1× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.6× | 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/).

🛂 **Nomad Residence Permit** — income floor ≈ $3,600/month. [Visa finder →](https://geo-parity.com/nomad-visas/)

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/malta/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇵🇪 Peru](https://geo-parity.com/livability/peru/) — quality 67.9, essentials $1,046/mo
- [🇺🇬 Uganda](https://geo-parity.com/livability/uganda/) — quality 41.4, essentials $633/mo
- [🇸🇮 Slovenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovenia/) — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo
- [🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saudi-arabia/) — quality 61, essentials $949/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Malta a good place to live for remote workers?**: Malta scores 91/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 266.4 Mbps, safety 97, healthcare 82, air quality 86; English not scored) — rank 8 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Malta?**: Median fixed broadband is around 266.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Malta?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,403/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.1× 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/malta/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json