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title: "Is Rwanda a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Rwanda (Kigali): 30.3 Mbps internet, safety 78/100, healthcare 59/100 — essentials ≈ $512/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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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](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

- [🇧🇮 Burundi](https://geo-parity.com/livability/burundi/) — quality 45.4, essentials $478/mo
- [🇲🇩 Moldova](https://geo-parity.com/livability/moldova/) — quality 82.6, essentials $855/mo
- [🇷🇴 Romania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/romania/) — quality 89.3, essentials $918/mo
- [🇲🇼 Malawi](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malawi/) — quality 57, essentials $617/mo

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

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