Livability · rank 68/167
Is 🇵🇪 Peru (Lima) a good place to live?
Quality score 68/100 against essentials of $1,046/month.
The five metrics
Internet 86 213.9 Mbps median broadband, 82% online
Safety 48 8.6 homicides/100k (2021)
Healthcare 68 UHC service coverage 68/100 (2023)
Air quality 70 PM2.5 18.4 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 -0.51 · corruption control -0.72 · stability -0.65 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $18.87 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $8.07/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,046) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 1.9× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 4.8× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇲🇹 Malta — quality 91.3, essentials $1,403/mo
- 🇺🇬 Uganda — quality 41.4, essentials $633/mo
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — quality 61, essentials $949/mo
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Peru
Frequently asked questions
- Is Peru a good place to live for remote workers?
- Peru scores 68/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 213.9 Mbps, safety 48, healthcare 68, air quality 70; English not scored) — rank 68 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Peru?
- Median fixed broadband is around 213.9 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Peru?
- Single-person essentials run about $1,046/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (2.9× essentials).