Livability · rank 127/167
Is 🇷🇼 Rwanda (Kigali) a good place to live?
Quality score 49/100 against essentials of $512/month.
The five metrics
Internet 12 30.3 Mbps median broadband, 31.7% online
Safety 78 3.6 homicides/100k (2020)
Healthcare 59 UHC service coverage 59/100 (2023)
Air quality 46 PM2.5 29.4 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
- middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.1 · corruption control 0.63 · stability -0.04 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $17.86 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $1.43/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($512) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 3.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 9.8× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇧🇮 Burundi — quality 45.4, essentials $478/mo
- 🇲🇩 Moldova — quality 82.6, essentials $855/mo
- 🇷🇴 Romania — quality 89.3, essentials $918/mo
- 🇲🇼 Malawi — quality 57, essentials $617/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Rwanda
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rwanda a good place to live for remote workers?
- Rwanda scores 49/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 30.3 Mbps, safety 78, healthcare 59, air quality 46; English not scored) — rank 127 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Rwanda?
- Median fixed broadband is around 30.3 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Rwanda?
- Single-person essentials run about $512/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.9× essentials).