Paraguay
Republic of Paraguay
- Capital
- Asunción
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 7.0 million
- Currency
- PYG
- Area
- 406,752 km²
Across Paraguay's 10 priced cities, one person needs about $1,119 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $715.
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%46
- Safety20%42
- Health care15%54
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%86
- Connectivity10%66
- Cost10%66
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
- #86
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
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 8%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 9%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 16.5%
- 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
- 41.7
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 58.3
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 6.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #51 worldwide
- 161
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +60%
Cities in Paraguay
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1San Lorenzo | 64 | 29.3 | — | — | — | 227.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 2Ciudad del Este | 61 | 26.7 | $380 | $619 | 90.6 | 301.8K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 3Capiatá | 61 | — | — | — | — | 198.6K | Low confidence |
| 4Lambaré | 61 | — | — | — | — | 126.4K | Low confidence |
| 5Fernando de la Mora | 61 | — | — | — | — | 120.2K | Low confidence |
| 6Asuncion | 59 | 33.5 | $616 | $715 | 73.1 | 1.5M | High confidence, 36 contributors |
| 7Mariano Roque Alonso | 55 | 30.2 | — | $844 | 114.8 | 72K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 8Limpio | 52 | 33.1 | — | — | — | 96.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9San Antonio | 52 | 33.1 | — | — | — | 55.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Coronel Oviedo | 52 | 33.1 | — | — | — | 51.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Villarrica | 51 | 30.9 | — | $552 | 74.1 | 41.2K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 12Santa Rita | 49 | 35.7 | $338 | $507 | 66.3 | 11.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Luque | 49 | 31.1 | $422 | $473 | 60.8 | — | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |