Argentina
Argentine Republic
- Capital
- Buenos Aires
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 46 million
- Currency
- ARS
- Area
- 2,780,400 km²
Across Argentina's 21 priced cities, one person needs about $1,186 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $700.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
59out of 100
- Purchasing power25%44
- Safety20%37
- Health care15%68
- Climate10%95
- Air quality10%88
- Connectivity10%62
- Cost10%62
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #64
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
46.7
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
11.6
New York = 100
Purchasing power
69.7
New York = 100
One person
$1,186
A month, rent included
Net salary
$700
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$484
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$14,898
2025
Growth
+4.4%
2025
Unemployment
7.1%
2025
Inflation
219.9%
2024
Life expectancy
77.5 years
2024
Internet users
90%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 35%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 9%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 35%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 21%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 17%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 26.4%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 37.0
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 63.0
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 4.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #57 worldwide
- 137
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #68 worldwide
- 68
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +38%
Cities in Argentina
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Concordia | 65 | — | — | — | — | 145.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2San Nicolás de los Arroyos | 65 | — | — | — | — | 134.2K | Low confidence |
| 3Neuquén | 65 | — | — | — | — | 231.2K | Low confidence |
| 4Santa Rosa | 65 | — | — | — | — | 102.9K | Low confidence |
| 5Corrientes | 65 | — | — | $600 | — | 346.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Resistencia | 65 | — | $400 | $575 | — | 290.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Tandil | 65 | — | $500 | $1,200 | — | 115.9K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8Belgrano | 64 | — | — | — | — | 138.9K | Low confidence |
| 9Ituzaingó | 64 | — | — | — | — | 168.4K | Low confidence |
| 10Palermo | 64 | — | — | — | — | 249K | Low confidence |
| 11San Miguel | 64 | — | — | — | — | 168.8K | Low confidence |
| 12Río Cuarto | 64 | — | — | — | — | 157K | Low confidence |
| 13San Rafael | 64 | 42.5 | — | — | — | 118K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Quilmes | 64 | 32.6 | $500 | $1,100 | 127.0 | 262.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 15José C. Paz | 64 | — | — | — | — | 230.2K | Low confidence |
| 16Formosa | 64 | — | — | — | — | 222.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 17La Rioja | 64 | — | — | $597 | — | 178.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 18Santiago del Estero | 64 | — | $300 | — | — | 252.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 19Catamarca | 64 | — | — | — | — | 159.1K | Low confidence |
| 20Comodoro Rivadavia | 63 | — | $350 | — | — | 140.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 21Parana | 63 | 34.9 | $276 | $660 | 94.3 | 247.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 22Lanus | 63 | 38.6 | — | — | — | 212.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 23Merlo | 63 | — | — | — | — | 269K | Low confidence |
| 24Castelar | 63 | — | — | — | — | 107.8K | Low confidence |
| 25La Plata | 63 | 36.8 | $351 | $720 | 91.2 | 195.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 26Posadas | 63 | — | — | — | — | 305.9K | Low confidence |
| 27Isidro Casanova | 62 | — | — | — | — | 132K | Low confidence |
| 28Ezeiza | 62 | — | — | — | — | 115K | Low confidence |
| 29Villa Lugano | 62 | — | — | — | — | 114K | Low confidence |
| 30San Justo | 62 | — | — | — | — | 105.3K | Low confidence |
| 31Laferrere | 62 | — | — | — | — | 248.4K | Low confidence |
| 32Ciudad de Las Heras | 62 | — | — | — | — | 189.1K | Low confidence |
| 33Berazategui | 62 | — | — | — | — | 180.5K | Low confidence |
| 34Balvanera | 62 | — | — | — | — | 152.2K | Low confidence |
| 35Salta | 62 | — | $460 | $850 | — | 520.7K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 36Avellaneda | 62 | — | — | — | — | 367.6K | Low confidence |
| 37San Miguel de Tucuman | 62 | — | $275 | — | — | 548.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 38Santa Fe | 62 | 34.6 | $512 | $837 | 92.8 | 391.2K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 39Rosario | 60 | 36.3 | $250 | $700 | 100.6 | 948.3K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 40Mar del Plata | 60 | 43.8 | $332 | $616 | 71.2 | 593.3K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 41San Salvador de Jujuy | 60 | — | $500 | $600 | — | 258K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 42San Luis | 59 | 33.6 | $400 | $500 | 63.2 | 169.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 43Cordoba | 59 | 46.7 | $484 | $667 | 64.3 | 2.1M | High confidence, 25 contributors |
| 44Mendoza | 59 | 42.3 | $479 | $771 | 79.0 | 114.9K | High confidence, 24 contributors |
| 45Lomas de Zamora | 59 | 40.5 | $500 | $750 | 77.4 | 111.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 46San Juan | 58 | 32.6 | $250 | $700 | 108.2 | 109.1K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 47Moreno | 58 | 38.9 | $450 | $540 | 59.7 | 148.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 48Buenos Aires | 56 | 50.2 | $724 | $900 | 69.7 | 2.9M | High confidence, 145 contributors |
| 49Bahia Blanca | 55 | 41.2 | $500 | $694 | 70.9 | 299.1K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 50Rawson | 53 | — | — | — | — | 130.3K | Low confidence |
| 51Pilar | 53 | 43.9 | $500 | $1,000 | 98.6 | 81.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 52San Isidro | 53 | 36.3 | — | — | — | 45.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 53Haedo | 53 | 36.3 | — | — | — | 37.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 54Tigre | 53 | 36.3 | — | — | — | 31.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 55Rio Gallegos | 49 | — | — | — | — | 95.8K | Low confidence |
| 56Ushuaia | 49 | — | $786 | — | — | 56.8K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 57Oberá | 49 | — | — | — | — | 56.5K | Low confidence |
| 58Pinamar | 49 | — | — | — | — | 39.2K | Low confidence |
| 59Leandro N. Alem | 49 | — | — | — | — | 27.3K | Low confidence |
| 60San Martin de los Andes | 49 | — | — | — | — | 23.5K | Low confidence |
| 61Bariloche | 44 | 46.2 | $1,300 | $958 | 54.9 | 95.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |