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title: "Is Paraguay a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Paraguay (Asuncion): 216.4 Mbps internet, safety 59/100, healthcare 79/100 — essentials ≈ $701/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 47/167

# Is 🇵🇾 Paraguay (Asuncion) a good place to live?

Quality score **75/100** against essentials of **$701/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 87 216.4 Mbps median broadband, 81.6% online

Safety 59 6.8 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 79 UHC service coverage 79/100 (2023)

Air quality 75 PM2.5 16.4 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**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.58 · corruption control -1.02 · stability -0.07 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $18.94 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $11.37/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($701) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.1× | 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

- [🇬🇪 Georgia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/georgia/) — quality 64, essentials $599/mo
- [🇲🇬 Madagascar](https://geo-parity.com/livability/madagascar/) — quality 57.8, essentials $548/mo
- [🇵🇰 Pakistan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/pakistan/) — quality 39.7, essentials $379/mo
- [🇹🇳 Tunisia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tunisia/) — quality 55.9, essentials $541/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Paraguay a good place to live for remote workers?**: Paraguay scores 75/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 216.4 Mbps, safety 59, healthcare 79, air quality 75; English not scored) — rank 47 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Paraguay?**: Median fixed broadband is around 216.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Paraguay?**: Single-person essentials run about $701/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.3× 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/paraguay/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json