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title: "Is Samoa a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Samoa (Apia): 75.9 Mbps internet, safety 62/100, healthcare 62/100 — essentials ≈ $1,481/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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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](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

- [🇦🇺 Australia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/australia/) — quality 90.3, essentials $2,144/mo
- [🇩🇰 Denmark](https://geo-parity.com/livability/denmark/) — quality 93.2, essentials $2,158/mo
- [🇬🇧 United Kingdom](https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-kingdom/) — quality 90.4, essentials $2,060/mo
- [🇩🇪 Germany](https://geo-parity.com/livability/germany/) — quality 81.8, essentials $1,834/mo

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

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