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title: "Is Zambia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Zambia (Lusaka): 29.3 Mbps internet, safety 69/100, healthcare 62/100 — essentials ≈ $610/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/zambia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 107/167

# Is 🇿🇲 Zambia (Lusaka) a good place to live?

Quality score **54/100** against essentials of **$610/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 12 29.3 Mbps median broadband, 17.1% online

Safety 69 5.2 homicides/100k (2015)

Healthcare 62 UHC service coverage 62/100 (2023)

Air quality 74 PM2.5 16.6 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 -0.56 · corruption control -0.46 · stability -0.1 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $3.54 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $4.95/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($610) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.9× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.2× | 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

- [🇲🇪 Montenegro](https://geo-parity.com/livability/montenegro/) — quality 71.1, essentials $804/mo
- [🇫🇯 Fiji](https://geo-parity.com/livability/fiji/) — quality 67.4, essentials $766/mo
- [🇰🇪 Kenya](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kenya/) — quality 53.5, essentials $608/mo
- [🇦🇲 Armenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/armenia/) — quality 64.4, essentials $715/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Zambia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Zambia scores 54/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 29.3 Mbps, safety 69, healthcare 62, air quality 74; English not scored) — rank 107 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Zambia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 29.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Zambia?**: Single-person essentials run about $610/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.9× 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/zambia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json