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title: "Is Uzbekistan a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Uzbekistan (Tashkent): 70 Mbps internet, safety 92/100, healthcare 79/100 — essentials ≈ $478/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 81/167

# Is 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan (Tashkent) a good place to live?

Quality score **64/100** against essentials of **$478/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 28 70 Mbps median broadband, 89.5% online

Safety 92 1.4 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 79 UHC service coverage 79/100 (2023)

Air quality 57 PM2.5 24.4 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 -0.66 · corruption control -0.75 · stability -0.03 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $3.48 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $2.32/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($478) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.2× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 6.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 10.5× | 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

- [🇧🇹 Bhutan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bhutan/) — quality 56.1, essentials $418/mo
- [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/livability/india/) — quality 55.9, essentials $408/mo
- [🇲🇾 Malaysia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malaysia/) — quality 79.2, essentials $617/mo
- [🇦🇿 Azerbaijan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/azerbaijan/) — quality 70.4, essentials $552/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Uzbekistan a good place to live for remote workers?**: Uzbekistan scores 64/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 70 Mbps, safety 92, healthcare 79, air quality 57; English not scored) — rank 81 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Uzbekistan?**: Median fixed broadband is around 70 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Uzbekistan?**: Single-person essentials run about $478/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (6.3× 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/uzbekistan/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json