Oman
Sultanate of Oman
- Capital
- Muscat
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 5.5 million
- Currency
- OMR
- Area
- 309,500 km²
Across Oman's 18 priced cities, one person needs about $1,270 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,259.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
69out of 100
- Purchasing power25%82
- Safety20%82
- Health care15%63
- Climate10%66
- Air quality10%48
- Connectivity10%56
- Cost10%57
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
- #17
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
52.4
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
12.3
New York = 100
Purchasing power
203.2
New York = 100
One person
$1,270
A month, rent included
Net salary
$2,259
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$519
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$19,947
2025
Growth
+2.4%
2025
Unemployment
3.3%
2025
Inflation
1.0%
2025
Life expectancy
80.2 years
2024
Internet users
95%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 5%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 5%
- 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
- 81.7
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 18.3
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #66 worldwide
- 107
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #13 worldwide
- 169
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +20%
Cities in Oman
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Ar-rustaq | 71 | 52.4 | — | $4,421 | 429.3 | 120K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Salalah | 69 | 50.1 | $247 | $1,774 | 202.9 | 163.1K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 3Ibra | 69 | 50.2 | — | $4,161 | 415.8 | 25.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 4Al-hamra' | 69 | 52.4 | — | $4,291 | 416.7 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Al-Buraimi | 69 | 48.0 | — | $3,573 | 367.4 | 73.7K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 6Al-masna'ah | 69 | 52.4 | — | $4,031 | 391.4 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Sur | 68 | 51.5 | $260 | $2,687 | 297.3 | 71.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 8'ibri | 68 | 51.0 | $234 | $2,960 | 338.4 | 163.5K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 9Shinas | 68 | 52.4 | — | $3,121 | 303.0 | 48K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Adam | 67 | 52.3 | — | $2,596 | 252.3 | 17.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 11Seeb (As-Sib, Sib, Al-Seeb)) | 65 | 50.0 | $519 | $2,259 | 203.2 | 470.9K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 12Suhar | 64 | 52.4 | — | $2,598 | 252.3 | 108.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Sohar | 63 | 53.6 | $493 | $2,466 | 217.3 | 108.3K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 14Muscat | 62 | 54.2 | $671 | $1,707 | 131.4 | 797K | High confidence, 61 contributors |
| 15Saham | 60 | 52.4 | — | — | — | 140K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Izki | 58 | 52.4 | — | — | — | 36.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Al-`awabi | 58 | 52.4 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 18Madinat As Sultan Qaboos | 58 | 52.4 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19As Suwayq | 58 | — | — | — | — | 107.1K | Low confidence |
| 20Bawshar | 58 | — | — | — | — | 383.3K | Low confidence |
| 21Nizwa | 57 | — | — | — | — | 72.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 22Al Khabourah | 57 | — | — | — | — | 50.2K | Low confidence |
| 23Badiyah | 57 | — | — | — | — | 18.5K | Low confidence |
| 24Al-qabil | 57 | — | — | — | — | 14K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 25Al Ghubra | 57 | — | — | $3,121 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 26Duqm | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 27Matrah | 57 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 28Ruwi | 57 | — | $389 | $4,413 | — | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |