Belize
- Capital
- Belmopan
- Region
- Central America
- Population, 2025
- 423,000
- Currency
- BZD
- Area
- 22,966 km²
Across Belize's 3 priced cities, one person needs about $1,098 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $843.
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%52
- Safety20%48
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%100
- Connectivity10%26
- Cost10%67
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
- 25%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 25%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 12.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- 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
- 48.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 51.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 28.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #110 worldwide
- 53
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +9%
Cities in Belize
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Belmopan | 62 | 49.9 | $448 | — | — | 13.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Belize City | 50 | 50.3 | $342 | $843 | 87.7 | 65.2K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 3Corozal | 50 | 50.7 | $237 | — | — | 9.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4San Ignacio | 45 | — | $600 | $1,000 | — | 21.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5San Pedro | 45 | — | $1,000 | — | — | 17.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Orange Walk | 45 | — | — | — | — | 15.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Dangriga | 45 | — | — | — | — | 9.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Ladyville | 45 | — | — | — | — | 7.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 9Benque Viejo | 45 | — | — | — | — | 7.2K | Low confidence |
| 10Trial Farm | 45 | — | — | — | — | 5.9K | Low confidence |
| 11Punta Gorda | 45 | — | $600 | — | — | 5.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Carmelita | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 13Spanish Lookout | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Little Belize | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 15Hopkins | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Placencia | 45 | — | $1,100 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 17Ambergris Caye | 45 | — | — | $1,000 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |