Somalia
Federal Republic of Somalia
- Capital
- Mogadishu
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 20 million
- Currency
- SOS
- Area
- 637,657 km²
Across Somalia's 4 priced cities, one person needs about $752 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $275.
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%29
- Safety20%38
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%89
- Connectivity10%11
- Cost10%87
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 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
- 18%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- 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
- 37.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 62.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people
- —
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #133 worldwide
- 30
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +59%
Cities in Somalia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Ruqi | 61 | — | — | — | — | 148.7K | Low confidence |
| 2Baidoa | 59 | — | — | — | — | 129.8K | Low confidence |
| 3El Dibir | 59 | — | — | — | — | 200K | Low confidence |
| 4Cabudwaaq | 58 | — | — | — | — | 120K | Low confidence |
| 5Borama | 58 | — | $60.00 | $400 | — | 597.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Hargeysa | 56 | 34.8 | $110 | $300 | 54.2 | 477.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 7Marka | 55 | — | — | — | — | 230.1K | Low confidence |
| 8Kismayo | 54 | — | — | — | — | 234.9K | Low confidence |
| 9Berbera | 54 | — | — | — | — | 242.3K | Low confidence |
| 10Mogadishu | 49 | 37.1 | $195 | $275 | 41.8 | 2.6M | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 11Garowe | 49 | 35.4 | $90.00 | $400 | 73.5 | 57.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Bosaso | 46 | 30.9 | $125 | $300 | 58.2 | 74.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 13Afgoye | — | — | $60.00 | $200 | — | 65.5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Galcaio | — | — | — | — | — | 61.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 15Jawhar | — | — | — | — | — | 47.1K | Low confidence |