Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Capital
- Sarajevo
- Region
- Southeast Europe
- Population, 2025
- 3.1 million
- Currency
- BAM
- Area
- 51,209 km²
Across Bosnia and Herzegovina's 29 priced cities, one person needs about $991 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $905.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
60out of 100
- Purchasing power25%60
- Safety20%59
- Health care15%55
- Climate10%83
- Air quality10%78
- Connectivity10%15
- Cost10%76
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
- #59
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
43.0
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
9.0
New York = 100
Purchasing power
109.5
New York = 100
One person
$991
A month, rent included
Net salary
$905
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$467
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$10,382
2025
Growth
+2.1%
2025
Unemployment
11.0%
2025
Inflation
6.1%
2023
Life expectancy
78.0 years
2024
Internet users
86%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 17%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 31%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 5%
- 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
- 59.3
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 40.7
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 1.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #127 worldwide
- 37
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #98 worldwide
- 26
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +8%
Cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Tuzla | 62 | 37.0 | $264 | $949 | 132.3 | 142.5K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 2Mostar | 60 | 36.7 | $440 | $875 | 100.9 | 104.5K | High confidence, 36 contributors |
| 3Zenica | 60 | 35.3 | $198 | $673 | 105.6 | 164.4K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 4Banja Luka | 60 | 46.3 | $473 | $905 | 88.5 | 221.1K | High confidence, 20 contributors |
| 5Sarajevo | 59 | 43.0 | $467 | $1,065 | 109.5 | 696.7K | High confidence, 72 contributors |
| 6Sanski Most | 58 | 35.0 | $158 | $821 | 137.3 | 13.6K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 7Visoko | 56 | 40.8 | $191 | $891 | 126.7 | 17.9K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 8Bihac | 56 | 37.3 | $223 | $801 | 117.1 | 75.6K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 9Konjic | 55 | 43.9 | $206 | $881 | 116.4 | 16K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 10Gradiska | 55 | 37.6 | $176 | $705 | 108.8 | 13.3K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 11Trebinje | 55 | 39.4 | $294 | $881 | 113.9 | 33.2K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 12Cazin | 55 | 35.9 | $237 | $727 | 107.1 | 21.7K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 13Pale | 54 | 40.7 | $203 | $761 | 106.7 | 7.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 14Bijeljina | 54 | 37.6 | $257 | $764 | 106.2 | 37.7K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 15Travnik | 53 | 35.9 | — | — | — | 31.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 16Capljina | 53 | 36.1 | — | — | — | 7.9K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 17Bosanska Krupa | 53 | 33.5 | — | $580 | 86.3 | 15.2K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 18Bugojno | 52 | 35.7 | — | $617 | 87.8 | 41.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 19Doboj | 52 | 34.9 | $200 | $527 | 83.2 | 27.2K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 20Vogosca | 52 | 41.8 | — | — | — | 8.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 21Livno | 52 | 35.6 | — | $587 | 83.9 | 11.7K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 22Brod | 52 | 42.7 | — | — | — | 9.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 23Zepce | 52 | 44.6 | — | — | — | 8.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 24Fojnica | 52 | 45.5 | — | — | — | 8.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 25Lukavac | 52 | 37.8 | — | $594 | 81.3 | 44.5K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 26Prijedor | 51 | 38.5 | $176 | $499 | 75.7 | 36.3K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 27Gracanica | 51 | 40.4 | — | $594 | 77.7 | 15.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 28Gradacac | 50 | 42.7 | — | $594 | 74.8 | 15.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 29Brcko | 49 | 37.4 | $352 | $499 | 62.4 | 39K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 30Kakanj | 48 | — | — | — | — | 12.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |