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title: "Is Uganda a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Uganda (Kampala): 54.2 Mbps internet, safety 46/100, healthcare 54/100 — essentials ≈ $633/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 151/167

# Is 🇺🇬 Uganda (Kampala) a good place to live?

Quality score **42/100** against essentials of **$633/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 22 54.2 Mbps median broadband, 8.9% online

Safety 46 9 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 54 UHC service coverage 54/100 (2023)

Air quality 44 PM2.5 30.3 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 -0.74 · corruption control -1.12 · stability -1.02 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $30.45 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.87/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($633) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.2× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.9× | 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

- [🇸🇮 Slovenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovenia/) — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo
- [🇱🇻 Latvia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/latvia/) — quality 81.9, essentials $1,245/mo
- [🇸🇳 Senegal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/senegal/) — quality 46, essentials $699/mo
- [🇲🇹 Malta](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malta/) — quality 91.3, essentials $1,403/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Uganda a good place to live for remote workers?**: Uganda scores 42/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 54.2 Mbps, safety 46, healthcare 54, air quality 44; English not scored) — rank 151 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Uganda?**: Median fixed broadband is around 54.2 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Uganda?**: Single-person essentials run about $633/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.7× 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/uganda/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json