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title: "Is Nepal a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Nepal (Kathmandu): 114.9 Mbps internet, safety 87/100, healthcare 58/100 — essentials ≈ $433/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
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Livability · rank 124/167

# Is 🇳🇵 Nepal (Kathmandu) a good place to live?

Quality score **49/100** against essentials of **$433/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 46 114.9 Mbps median broadband, 46.3% online

Safety 87 2.1 homicides/100k (2020)

Healthcare 58 UHC service coverage 58/100 (2023)

Air quality 5 PM2.5 47.8 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 -0.3 · corruption control -0.63 · stability -0.41 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $8.58 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $2.16/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($433) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.6× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 6.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 11.5× | 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/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇰🇿 Kazakhstan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kazakhstan/) — quality 71.7, essentials $639/mo
- [🇮🇷 Iran](https://geo-parity.com/livability/iran/) — quality 54.8, essentials $493/mo
- [🇩🇿 Algeria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/algeria/) — quality 69, essentials $621/mo
- [🇵🇭 Philippines](https://geo-parity.com/livability/philippines/) — quality 73.4, essentials $637/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Nepal a good place to live for remote workers?**: Nepal scores 49/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 114.9 Mbps, safety 87, healthcare 58, air quality 5; English not scored) — rank 124 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Nepal?**: Median fixed broadband is around 114.9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Nepal?**: Single-person essentials run about $433/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (6.9× 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/nepal/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json