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title: "Is Peru a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Peru (Lima): 213.9 Mbps internet, safety 48/100, healthcare 68/100 — essentials ≈ $1,046/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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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](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

- [🇲🇹 Malta](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malta/) — quality 91.3, essentials $1,403/mo
- [🇺🇬 Uganda](https://geo-parity.com/livability/uganda/) — quality 41.4, essentials $633/mo
- [🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saudi-arabia/) — quality 61, essentials $949/mo
- [🇸🇮 Slovenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovenia/) — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo

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

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/peru/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json