Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Republic
- Capital
- Bishkek
- Region
- Central Asia
- Population, 2025
- 7.3 million
- Currency
- KGS
- Area
- 199,951 km²
Across Kyrgyzstan's 4 priced cities, one person needs about $991 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $502.
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%38
- Safety20%51
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%87
- Connectivity10%39
- 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.
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
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 12%
- 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
- 50.5
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 49.5
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 1.7
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #91 worldwide
- 89
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #79 worldwide
- 52
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +9%
Cities in Kyrgyzstan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Manas | 63 | — | — | — | — | 123.2K | Low confidence |
| 2Osh | 58 | 22.0 | $362 | $303 | 50.0 | 322.2K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 3Bishkek | 52 | 26.6 | $592 | $502 | 57.9 | 900K | High confidence, 97 contributors |
| 4Uzgen | 51 | 21.9 | — | — | — | 49.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Cholpon-Ata | 50 | 25.9 | — | — | — | 14.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |