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title: "Is Myanmar a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Myanmar (Naypyidaw): 39.4 Mbps internet, safety 85/100, healthcare 52/100 — essentials ≈ $231/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 122/167

# Is 🇲🇲 Myanmar (Naypyidaw) a good place to live?

Quality score **50/100** against essentials of **$231/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 16 39.4 Mbps median broadband, 45.4% online

Safety 85 2.6 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 52 UHC service coverage 52/100 (2023)

Air quality 46 PM2.5 29.2 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.81 · corruption control -1.25 · stability -2.09 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $3.35 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $8.07/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($231) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 8.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 13.0× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 21.7× | 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

- [🇪🇬 Egypt](https://geo-parity.com/livability/egypt/) — quality 43.8, essentials $254/mo
- [🇸🇾 Syria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/syria/) — quality 40.4, essentials $258/mo
- [🇺🇦 Ukraine](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ukraine/) — quality 78.4, essentials $523/mo
- [🇧🇾 Belarus](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belarus/) — quality 74.1, essentials $499/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Myanmar a good place to live for remote workers?**: Myanmar scores 50/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 39.4 Mbps, safety 85, healthcare 52, air quality 46; English not scored) — rank 122 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Myanmar?**: Median fixed broadband is around 39.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Myanmar?**: Single-person essentials run about $231/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (13.0× 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/myanmar/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json