Cambodia
Kingdom of Cambodia
- Capital
- Phnom Penh
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 18 million
- Currency
- KHR
- Area
- 181,035 km²
Across Cambodia's 11 priced cities, one person needs about $1,119 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $324.
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%24
- Safety20%51
- Health care15%54
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%94
- Connectivity10%28
- Cost10%66
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
- #101
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
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- 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
- 51.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 48.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2011
- 1.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #108 worldwide
- 55
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #43 worldwide
- 112
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +11%
Cities in Cambodia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Takeo | 58 | — | — | — | — | 843.9K | Low confidence |
| 2Battambang | 54 | 25.6 | $225 | $200 | 37.6 | 119.3K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 3Siem Reap | 53 | 27.4 | $334 | $236 | 36.2 | 139.5K | High confidence, 23 contributors |
| 4Kampong Cham | 51 | 24.8 | — | — | — | 61.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 5Poipet | 51 | 26.3 | — | — | — | 98.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Ta Khmau | 51 | 26.5 | — | — | — | 52.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Svay Rieng | 50 | 27.9 | — | — | — | 24K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 8Kampong Chhnang | 50 | 31.5 | — | — | — | 75.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 9Kampong Thom | 50 | 31.9 | — | — | — | 20K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10Sihanoukville | 50 | 31.7 | $400 | — | — | 73K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 11Phnom Penh | 48 | 32.2 | $636 | $324 | 33.1 | 1.6M | High confidence, 37 contributors |
| 12Pursat | 45 | — | — | — | — | 52.5K | Low confidence |
| 13Samraong | 45 | — | — | — | — | 18.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Kampot | 43 | 25.4 | $217 | $150 | 28.7 | 22.7K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |