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title: "Is Mozambique a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Mozambique (Maputo): 32.4 Mbps internet, healthcare 50/100, air quality 83/100 — essentials ≈ $729/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 128/167

# Is 🇲🇿 Mozambique (Maputo) a good place to live?

Quality score **49/100** against essentials of **$729/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 13 32.4 Mbps median broadband, 20.5% online

Healthcare 50 UHC service coverage 50/100 (2023)

Air quality 83 PM2.5 12.6 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.19 · corruption control -1.06 · stability -1.76 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $21.17 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $6.26/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($729) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.9× | 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

- [🇰🇷 South Korea](https://geo-parity.com/livability/south-korea/) — quality 80.6, essentials $1,206/mo
- [🇧🇭 Bahrain](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bahrain/) — quality 61.3, essentials $910/mo
- [🇬🇭 Ghana](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ghana/) — quality 45, essentials $669/mo
- [🇱🇾 Libya](https://geo-parity.com/livability/libya/) — quality 47.1, essentials $713/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Mozambique a good place to live for remote workers?**: Mozambique scores 49/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 32.4 Mbps, healthcare 50, air quality 83; English not scored) — rank 128 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Mozambique?**: Median fixed broadband is around 32.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Mozambique?**: Single-person essentials run about $729/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.1× 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/mozambique/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json