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title: "Is Pakistan a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Pakistan (Islamabad): 34.1 Mbps internet, safety 74/100, healthcare 56/100 — essentials ≈ $379/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 154/167

# Is 🇵🇰 Pakistan (Islamabad) a good place to live?

Quality score **40/100** against essentials of **$379/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 14 34.1 Mbps median broadband, 57.3% online

Safety 74 4.3 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 56 UHC service coverage 56/100 (2023)

Air quality 15 PM2.5 43.1 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.02 · corruption control -1.07 · stability -2.06 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $4.92 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $3.91/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($379) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 5.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 7.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 13.2× | 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

- [🇲🇬 Madagascar](https://geo-parity.com/livability/madagascar/) — quality 57.8, essentials $548/mo
- [🇹🇳 Tunisia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tunisia/) — quality 55.9, essentials $541/mo
- [🇵🇾 Paraguay](https://geo-parity.com/livability/paraguay/) — quality 74.9, essentials $701/mo
- [🇬🇪 Georgia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/georgia/) — quality 64, essentials $599/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Pakistan a good place to live for remote workers?**: Pakistan scores 40/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 34.1 Mbps, safety 74, healthcare 56, air quality 15; English not scored) — rank 154 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Pakistan?**: Median fixed broadband is around 34.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Pakistan?**: Single-person essentials run about $379/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (7.9× 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/pakistan/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json