Livability · rank 63/167
Is 🇴🇲 Oman (Muscat) a good place to live?
Quality score 71/100 against essentials of $908/month.
The five metrics
Internet 68 169.3 Mbps median broadband, 95.3% online
Safety 99 0.1 homicides/100k (2023)
Healthcare 73 UHC service coverage 73/100 (2023)
Air quality 44 PM2.5 30.4 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 0.45 · corruption control 0.51 · stability 0.63 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $73.73 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $26.01/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($908) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.5× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇵🇱 Poland — quality 82.7, essentials $1,054/mo
- 🇦🇷 Argentina — quality 72.6, essentials $925/mo
- 🇵🇦 Panama — quality 72.3, essentials $918/mo
- 🇨🇴 Colombia — quality 56.6, essentials $734/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Oman
Frequently asked questions
- Is Oman a good place to live for remote workers?
- Oman scores 71/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 169.3 Mbps, safety 99, healthcare 73, air quality 44; English not scored) — rank 63 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Oman?
- Median fixed broadband is around 169.3 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Oman?
- Single-person essentials run about $908/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.3× essentials).