Bahrain
Kingdom of Bahrain
- Capital
- Manama
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 1.6 million
- Currency
- BHD
- Area
- 765 km²
Across Bahrain's 14 priced cities, one person needs about $1,612 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,394.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%56
- Safety20%78
- Health care15%84
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%1
- Connectivity10%68
- Cost10%41
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
- #67
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 46%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 8%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 18%
- 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
- 77.7
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 22.3
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 0.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #48 worldwide
- 172
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #7 worldwide
- 243
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +26%
Cities in Bahrain
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1'ali | 64 | 51.7 | — | $3,782 | 258.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Adliya | 63 | 47.0 | — | $3,187 | 227.6 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 3Al Muharraq | 63 | 40.8 | $465 | $1,792 | 190.0 | 176.6K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 4Seef | 62 | 57.8 | $929 | $3,390 | 215.6 | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 5Juffair | 62 | 46.2 | $974 | $2,755 | 188.8 | — | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 6Manama | 59 | 51.0 | $997 | $2,304 | 149.5 | 147.1K | High confidence, 42 contributors |
| 7Al Budayyi | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Amwaj | 56 | — | — | $3,983 | — | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 9Sanad | 56 | 51.3 | $663 | $1,194 | 95.2 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Zinj | 55 | 51.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Budaiya | 55 | 51.5 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Riffa | 55 | 46.7 | $912 | $1,394 | 98.8 | 115.5K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 13Saar | 55 | 63.2 | $1,328 | $2,390 | 120.0 | 6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 14Madinat Hamad | 53 | 47.6 | $398 | $663 | 68.1 | 133.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 15Sitrah | 52 | 51.7 | — | $1,062 | 72.6 | 72.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 16Isa Town | 52 | 53.2 | — | $1,061 | 71.6 | 38.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |