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title: "Is Nigeria a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Nigeria (Lagos): 27.2 Mbps internet, safety 6/100, healthcare 47/100 — essentials ≈ $205/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/nigeria/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 162/167

# Is 🇳🇬 Nigeria (Lagos) a good place to live?

Quality score **30/100** against essentials of **$205/month**. Lagos hustle and anglophone ease; infrastructure and security are hard mode.

## The five metrics

Internet 11 27.2 Mbps median broadband, 41.2% online

Safety 6 15.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 47 UHC service coverage 47/100 (2023)

Air quality 0 PM2.5 54.7 µg/m³ (2023)

English 85 day-to-day usability

## 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 -1.01 · corruption control -1.11 · stability -2 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $9.75 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $1.97/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($205) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 9.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 14.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 24.4× | 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/).

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/nigeria/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇧🇾 Belarus](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belarus/) — quality 74.1, essentials $499/mo
- [🇺🇦 Ukraine](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ukraine/) — quality 78.4, essentials $523/mo
- [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/livability/india/) — quality 55.9, essentials $408/mo
- [🇧🇹 Bhutan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bhutan/) — quality 56.1, essentials $418/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/cost-of-living/united-states-vs-nigeria/) · [retiring in Nigeria](https://geo-parity.com/fire/nigeria/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Nigeria a good place to live for remote workers?**: Nigeria scores 30/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 27.2 Mbps, safety 6, healthcare 47, air quality 0, english 85) — rank 162 of 167. Lagos hustle and anglophone ease; infrastructure and security are hard mode.
- **How fast is the internet in Nigeria?**: Median fixed broadband is around 27.2 Mbps. Lagos hustle and anglophone ease; infrastructure and security are hard mode.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Nigeria?**: Single-person essentials run about $205/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (14.6× 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/nigeria/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json