Sudan
Republic of the Sudan
- Capital
- Khartoum
- Region
- Northern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 52 million
- Currency
- SDG
- Area
- 1,886,068 kmΒ²
Across Sudan's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $924 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $230.
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%21
- Safety20%54
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%72
- Connectivity10%20
- Cost10%80
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%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Corporate tax
- 35%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 17%
- SourceTrading Economics
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
- 54.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 45.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2008
- 5.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #120 worldwide
- 46
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- β
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- β
Cities in Sudan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1El Obeid | 60 | β | β | β | β | 393.3K | Low confidence |
| 2An NuhΕ«d | 59 | β | β | β | β | 108K | Low confidence |
| 3El Daein | 59 | β | β | β | β | 264.7K | Low confidence |
| 4Gereida | 59 | β | β | β | β | 120K | Low confidence |
| 5Ad-Damazin | 58 | β | β | β | β | 186.1K | Low confidence |
| 6Kosti | 58 | β | β | β | β | 345.1K | Low confidence |
| 7Rabak | 58 | β | β | β | β | 135.3K | Low confidence |
| 8Sennar | 58 | β | β | β | β | 130.1K | Low confidence |
| 9Singa | 58 | β | β | β | β | 250K | Low confidence |
| 10Al Qadarif | 57 | β | β | β | β | 363.9K | Low confidence |
| 11El Fasher | 57 | β | β | β | β | 252.6K | Low confidence |
| 12Al Manaqil | 56 | β | β | β | β | 128.3K | Low confidence |
| 13Al-Junaynah | 56 | β | β | β | β | 163K | Low confidence |
| 14El Geneina Fort | 56 | β | β | β | β | 134.3K | Low confidence |
| 15Wad Medani | 55 | β | β | β | β | 332.7K | Low confidence |
| 16Kassala | 55 | β | β | β | β | 401.5K | Low confidence |
| 17Port Sudan | 53 | β | β | β | β | 489.7K | Low confidence |
| 18Omdurman | 52 | β | β | β | β | 1.8M | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Khartoum North | 52 | β | β | β | β | 1M | Low confidence |
| 20Atbara | 52 | β | β | β | β | 112K | Low confidence |
| 21Ad-Damir | 52 | β | β | β | β | 103.9K | Low confidence |
| 22Nyala | 52 | β | β | β | β | 565.7K | Low confidence |
| 23Khartoum | 49 | 21.4 | $603 | $230 | 28.5 | 2M | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 24Shandi | 45 | β | β | β | β | 63.7K | Low confidence |