Brunei
Nation of Brunei, Abode of Peace
- Capital
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 466,000
- Currency
- BND
- Area
- 5,765 km²
Across Brunei's 4 priced cities, one person needs about $1,330 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,775.
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%72
- Safety20%70
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%40
- Connectivity10%38
- Cost10%52
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.
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
- 18.5%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
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
- 70.1
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 29.9
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2013
- 0.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #93 worldwide
- 86
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +4%
Cities in Brunei
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Kuala Belait | 65 | 51.5 | $747 | $3,363 | 253.0 | 31.2K | Medium confidence, 21 contributors |
| 2Tutong | 63 | 40.1 | — | $2,263 | 194.9 | 19.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 3Bandar Seri Begawan | 60 | 40.3 | $725 | $1,775 | 152.5 | 64.4K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 4Gadong A | 55 | 40.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Bangar | 54 | — | — | $3,083 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |