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title: "Is Ukraine a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Ukraine (Kiev): 166.1 Mbps internet, safety 77/100, healthcare 80/100 — essentials ≈ $523/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 39/167

# Is 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Kiev) a good place to live?

Quality score **78/100** against essentials of **$523/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 66 166.1 Mbps median broadband, 82.5% online

Safety 77 3.8 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 80 UHC service coverage 80/100 (2023)

Air quality 90 PM2.5 9.6 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 -0.72 · corruption control -0.67 · stability -0.43 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $12.21 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $5.99/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($523) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 9.6× | 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

- [🇧🇾 Belarus](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belarus/) — quality 74.1, essentials $499/mo
- [🇳🇬 Nigeria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nigeria/) — quality 29.8, essentials $205/mo
- [🇸🇾 Syria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/syria/) — quality 40.4, essentials $258/mo
- [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/livability/india/) — quality 55.9, essentials $408/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Ukraine a good place to live for remote workers?**: Ukraine scores 78/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 166.1 Mbps, safety 77, healthcare 80, air quality 90; English not scored) — rank 39 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Ukraine?**: Median fixed broadband is around 166.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Ukraine?**: Single-person essentials run about $523/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.7× 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/ukraine/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json