Livability · rank 83/167
Is 🇼🇸 Samoa (Apia) a good place to live?
Quality score 63/100 against essentials of $1,481/month.
The five metrics
Internet 30 75.9 Mbps median broadband
Safety 62 6.3 homicides/100k (2018)
Healthcare 62 UHC service coverage 62/100 (2023)
Air quality 98 PM2.5 6.1 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
- strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.05 · corruption control 0.69 · stability 1.24 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- What connectivity costs
- $44.1 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $18.35/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.
What your budget buys
| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,481) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | 1.4× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.0× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.4× | like royalty |
Essentials from the Pint & Property basket. Rank countries by your own priorities in the interactive matrix.
Similar value-for-money
- 🇦🇺 Australia — quality 90.3, essentials $2,144/mo
- 🇩🇰 Denmark — quality 93.2, essentials $2,158/mo
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — quality 90.4, essentials $2,060/mo
- 🇩🇪 Germany — quality 81.8, essentials $1,834/mo
See also: everyday prices · retiring in Samoa
Frequently asked questions
- Is Samoa a good place to live for remote workers?
- Samoa scores 63/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 75.9 Mbps, safety 62, healthcare 62, air quality 98; English not scored) — rank 83 of 167.
- How fast is the internet in Samoa?
- Median fixed broadband is around 75.9 Mbps.
- What does $3,000/month get you in Samoa?
- Single-person essentials run about $1,481/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.0× essentials).