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title: "Is Panama a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Panama (Panama City): 233.3 Mbps internet, safety 30/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $918/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 57/167

# Is 🇵🇦 Panama (Panama City) a good place to live?

Quality score **72/100** against essentials of **$918/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 93 233.3 Mbps median broadband, 72.8% online

Safety 30 11.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 84 PM2.5 12.1 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**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.26 · corruption control -0.55 · stability 0.26 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $39.59 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $21.4/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($918) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.4× | 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/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇬🇾 Guyana](https://geo-parity.com/livability/guyana/) — quality 58.3, essentials $738/mo
- [🇵🇱 Poland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/poland/) — quality 82.7, essentials $1,054/mo
- [🇦🇷 Argentina](https://geo-parity.com/livability/argentina/) — quality 72.6, essentials $925/mo
- [🇴🇲 Oman](https://geo-parity.com/livability/oman/) — quality 70.9, essentials $908/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Panama a good place to live for remote workers?**: Panama scores 72/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 233.3 Mbps, safety 30, healthcare 82, air quality 84; English not scored) — rank 57 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Panama?**: Median fixed broadband is around 233.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Panama?**: Single-person essentials run about $918/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.3× 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/panama/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json