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title: "Is Mauritania a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Mauritania (Nouakchott): 67.6 Mbps internet, safety 94/100, healthcare 40/100 — essentials ≈ $599/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/mauritania/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 149/167

# Is 🇲🇷 Mauritania (Nouakchott) a good place to live?

Quality score **43/100** against essentials of **$599/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 27 67.6 Mbps median broadband, 45.8% online

Safety 94 1 homicides/100k (2020)

Healthcare 40 UHC service coverage 40/100 (2023)

Air quality 10 PM2.5 45.6 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 -0.86 · corruption control -0.93 · stability -0.56 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $30.14 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $5.02/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($599) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.0× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.4× | 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

- [🇨🇱 Chile](https://geo-parity.com/livability/chile/) — quality 70.8, essentials $996/mo
- [🇱🇧 Lebanon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lebanon/) — quality 53.1, essentials $748/mo
- [🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau](https://geo-parity.com/livability/guinea-bissau/) — quality 46.9, essentials $653/mo
- [🇧🇫 Burkina Faso](https://geo-parity.com/livability/burkina-faso/) — quality 47.6, essentials $678/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Mauritania a good place to live for remote workers?**: Mauritania scores 43/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 67.6 Mbps, safety 94, healthcare 40, air quality 10; English not scored) — rank 149 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Mauritania?**: Median fixed broadband is around 67.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Mauritania?**: Single-person essentials run about $599/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.0× 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/mauritania/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json