Mongolia
- Capital
- Ulan Bator
- Region
- Eastern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 3.6 million
- Currency
- MNT
- Area
- 1,564,110 km²
Across Mongolia's 5 priced cities, one person needs about $1,063 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $589.
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%41
- Safety20%49
- Health care15%28
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%63
- Connectivity10%37
- Cost10%69
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
- #103
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%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 11.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 14.5%
- 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
- 48.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 51.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 5.9
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #94 worldwide
- 86
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +9%
Cities in Mongolia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Nalaikh (Nalayh) | 46 | 26.8 | $417 | $528 | 73.7 | 39.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Darkhan (Darhan) | 46 | 30.6 | — | — | — | 83.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 3Mandalgovi | 46 | 30.6 | — | — | — | 12.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Ulaanbaatar | 43 | 32.0 | $582 | $589 | 63.4 | 844.8K | High confidence, 46 contributors |
| 5Erdenet | 41 | 21.2 | — | $222 | 34.4 | 97.8K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 6Hovd | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |