Mali
Republic of Mali
- Capital
- Bamako
- Region
- Western Africa
- Population, 2025
- 25 million
- Currency
- XOF
- Area
- 1,240,192 km²
Across Mali's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $903 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $262.
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%No data
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%82
- Connectivity10%10
- Cost10%81
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.
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- 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
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people
- —
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #135 worldwide
- 28
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +30%
Cities in Mali
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Sikasso | 69 | — | — | — | — | 349.3K | Low confidence |
| 2Koutiala | 66 | — | — | — | — | 218K | Low confidence |
| 3San | 65 | — | — | — | — | 103.2K | Low confidence |
| 4Ségou | 63 | — | — | — | — | 205.8K | Low confidence |
| 5Kalaban Koro | 61 | — | — | — | — | 148.2K | Low confidence |
| 6Kati | 61 | — | — | — | — | 130.3K | Low confidence |
| 7Mopti | 59 | — | — | — | — | 186.2K | Low confidence |
| 8Kayes | 59 | — | — | — | — | 194.7K | Low confidence |
| 9Gao | 53 | — | — | — | — | 133.1K | Low confidence |
| 10Bamako | 45 | 48.5 | $175 | $262 | 33.1 | 4.2M | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 11Nara | — | — | — | — | — | 23.6K | Low confidence |
| 12Gargando | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |