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title: "Is Suriname a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Suriname (Paramaribo): 167 Mbps internet, safety 61/100, healthcare 74/100 — essentials ≈ $605/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 54/167

# Is 🇸🇷 Suriname (Paramaribo) a good place to live?

Quality score **73/100** against essentials of **$605/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 67 167 Mbps median broadband, 87.4% online

Safety 61 6.5 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 74 UHC service coverage 74/100 (2023)

Air quality 89 PM2.5 9.8 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 -0.21 · corruption control -0.38 · stability 0.48 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $14.66 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $18.01/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($605) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.0× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.3× | 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

- [🇻🇳 Vietnam](https://geo-parity.com/livability/vietnam/) — quality 64.4, essentials $539/mo
- [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/livability/laos/) — quality 44.9, essentials $377/mo
- [🇮🇩 Indonesia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/indonesia/) — quality 64, essentials $528/mo
- [🇱🇰 Sri Lanka](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sri-lanka/) — quality 57.5, essentials $474/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Suriname a good place to live for remote workers?**: Suriname scores 73/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 167 Mbps, safety 61, healthcare 74, air quality 89; English not scored) — rank 54 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Suriname?**: Median fixed broadband is around 167 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Suriname?**: Single-person essentials run about $605/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.0× 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/suriname/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json