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title: "Is Sierra Leone a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Sierra Leone (Freetown): 9 Mbps internet, safety 87/100, healthcare 48/100 — essentials ≈ $410/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 150/167

# Is 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone (Freetown) a good place to live?

Quality score **42/100** against essentials of **$410/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 4 9 Mbps median broadband, 25.1% online

Safety 87 2.2 homicides/100k (2020)

Healthcare 48 UHC service coverage 48/100 (2023)

Air quality 29 PM2.5 36.9 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**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.84 · corruption control -0.7 · stability -0.45 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: — /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $8.52/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($410) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 7.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 12.2× | 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

- [🇹🇳 Tunisia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tunisia/) — quality 55.9, essentials $541/mo
- [🇲🇺 Mauritius](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mauritius/) — quality 73.7, essentials $734/mo
- [🇵🇰 Pakistan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/pakistan/) — quality 39.7, essentials $379/mo
- [🇲🇬 Madagascar](https://geo-parity.com/livability/madagascar/) — quality 57.8, essentials $548/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sierra-leone/) · [retiring in Sierra Leone](https://geo-parity.com/fire/sierra-leone/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Sierra Leone a good place to live for remote workers?**: Sierra Leone scores 42/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 9 Mbps, safety 87, healthcare 48, air quality 29; English not scored) — rank 150 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Sierra Leone?**: Median fixed broadband is around 9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Sierra Leone?**: Single-person essentials run about $410/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (7.3× 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/sierra-leone/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json