Palestine
State of Palestine
- Capital
- Ramallah
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 5.4 million
- Currency
- EGP
- Area
- 6,220 kmΒ²
Across Palestine's 7 priced cities, one person needs about $1,257 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $115.
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%47
- Safety20%56
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%80
- Connectivity10%47
- Cost10%58
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 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
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 5%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 16%
- SourcePwC
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
- 55.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 44.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 0.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #79 worldwide
- 93
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- β
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +24%
Cities in Palestine
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1KhΔn YΕ«nis | 65 | β | β | β | β | 173.2K | Low confidence |
| 2JabΔlyΔ | 65 | β | β | β | β | 168.6K | Low confidence |
| 3Hebron | 65 | β | β | β | β | 160.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 4Gaza | 65 | β | $393 | $115 | β | 410K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5East Jerusalem | 65 | β | β | β | β | 428.3K | Low confidence |
| 6Rafah | 64 | 58.4 | β | β | β | 126.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Nablus | 60 | 54.5 | $296 | $744 | 76.3 | 130.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 8Bethlehem | 55 | 61.5 | $493 | $1,479 | 119.3 | 29K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 9Birzeit | 53 | 52.8 | $310 | $862 | 89.3 | 6.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10Qalqilya | 52 | 40.1 | $397 | $731 | 83.6 | β | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Jenin | 48 | 42.5 | $564 | $658 | 62.5 | 34.7K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 12Ramallah | 46 | 63.3 | $972 | $1,317 | 78.3 | 43.9K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 13Tulkarm | β | β | $247 | $825 | β | 44.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Al-birah | β | β | β | β | β | 38.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 15Dura | β | β | β | β | β | 20.8K | Low confidence |
| 16Salfit (Salfeet) | β | β | β | β | β | 11K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |