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title: "Is Namibia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Namibia (Windhoek): 40.1 Mbps internet, safety 33/100, healthcare 66/100 — essentials ≈ $774/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 126/167

# Is 🇳🇦 Namibia (Windhoek) a good place to live?

Quality score **49/100** against essentials of **$774/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 16 40.1 Mbps median broadband, 64.9% online

Safety 33 11.2 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 66 UHC service coverage 66/100 (2023)

Air quality 80 PM2.5 14.1 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**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.33 · corruption control 0.13 · stability 0.55 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $18.86 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $13.18/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($774) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.6× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 3.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.5× | 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/).

🛂 **Digital Nomad Visa** — income floor ≈ $2,000/month. [Visa finder →](https://geo-parity.com/nomad-visas/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇿🇦 South Africa](https://geo-parity.com/livability/south-africa/) — quality 51.2, essentials $821/mo
- [🇬🇦 Gabon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/gabon/) — quality 44.9, essentials $720/mo
- [🇧🇷 Brazil](https://geo-parity.com/livability/brazil/) — quality 57.6, essentials $925/mo
- [🇪🇹 Ethiopia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ethiopia/) — quality 40.2, essentials $646/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Namibia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Namibia scores 49/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 40.1 Mbps, safety 33, healthcare 66, air quality 80; English not scored) — rank 126 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Namibia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 40.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Namibia?**: Single-person essentials run about $774/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.9× 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/namibia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json