Guyana
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
- Capital
- Georgetown
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 836,000
- Currency
- GYD
- Area
- 214,969 km²
Across Guyana's 7 priced cities, one person needs about $1,835 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $514.
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%23
- Safety20%33
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%89
- Connectivity10%65
- Cost10%31
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
- 35%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 25%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 14%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 20%
- SourcePwC
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
- 32.6
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 67.4
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 19.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #53 worldwide
- 149
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Guyana
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Buxton, Guyana | 50 | 54.1 | — | $1,783 | 117.0 | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 2Georgetown | 45 | 58.2 | $961 | $514 | 32.0 | 235K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 3Linden | 44 | 56.0 | — | — | — | 44.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Blairmont | 44 | 56.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Uitvlugt | 44 | 56.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Vreed en Hoop | 44 | 56.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Fort Wellington | 43 | 56.0 | — | $967 | 62.4 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |