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title: "Is Senegal a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Senegal (Dakar): 64.6 Mbps internet, safety 98/100, healthcare 48/100 — essentials ≈ $699/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 139/167

# Is 🇸🇳 Senegal (Dakar) a good place to live?

Quality score **46/100** against essentials of **$699/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 26 64.6 Mbps median broadband, 60.1% online

Safety 98 0.3 homicides/100k (2015)

Healthcare 48 UHC service coverage 48/100 (2023)

Air quality 12 PM2.5 44.7 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 -0.2 · corruption control 0.11 · stability -0.23 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $20.69 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $8.02/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($699) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.2× | 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

- [🇱🇻 Latvia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/latvia/) — quality 81.9, essentials $1,245/mo
- [🇸🇮 Slovenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovenia/) — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo
- [🇵🇹 Portugal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/portugal/) — quality 88.8, essentials $1,345/mo
- [🇱🇾 Libya](https://geo-parity.com/livability/libya/) — quality 47.1, essentials $713/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Senegal a good place to live for remote workers?**: Senegal scores 46/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 64.6 Mbps, safety 98, healthcare 48, air quality 12; English not scored) — rank 139 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Senegal?**: Median fixed broadband is around 64.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Senegal?**: Single-person essentials run about $699/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.3× 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/senegal/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json