Moldova
Republic of Moldova
- Capital
- ChiΘinΔu
- Region
- Eastern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 2.4 million
- Currency
- MDL
- Area
- 33,846 kmΒ²
Across Moldova's 14 priced cities, one person needs about $1,321 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $901.
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%48
- Safety20%55
- Health care15%53
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%98
- Connectivity10%70
- Cost10%53
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
- #70
What it costs
Averages over the countryβs 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
- 12%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 12%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 12%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 9%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 24%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoβs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 55.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 44.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 2.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #45 worldwide
- 177
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #66 worldwide
- 70
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +13%
Cities in Moldova
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Bender | 64 | β | β | β | β | 110.2K | Low confidence |
| 2Balti | 60 | 35.9 | $403 | $634 | 76.8 | 125K | High confidence, 20 contributors |
| 3Chisinau | 60 | 41.5 | $698 | $901 | 77.9 | 636K | High confidence, 125 contributors |
| 4Tiraspol | 58 | 32.2 | $172 | $257 | 44.8 | 157K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 5Vulcanesti | 56 | 32.4 | $285 | $730 | 108.1 | 14.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Slobozia | 53 | 33.2 | β | β | β | 15.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Dubasari | 53 | 34.7 | β | β | β | 23.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 8Orhei | 53 | 35.6 | β | β | β | 24.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 9Calarasi | 53 | 35.6 | β | β | β | 14.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10Glodeni | 53 | 35.6 | β | β | β | 10.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Taraclia | 53 | 36.8 | β | β | β | 13.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Ciuciuleni | 53 | 36.8 | β | β | β | β | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Soroca | 49 | 34.2 | β | $513 | 55.7 | 27.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 14Cahul | 48 | 36.3 | β | $522 | 55.1 | 34.5K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 15Cricova | 45 | 38.5 | $912 | $581 | 44.6 | 7.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |