Chad
Republic of Chad
- Capital
- N'Djamena
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Population, 2025
- 21 million
- Currency
- XAF
- Area
- 1,284,000 km²
Across Chad's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $2,783 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $350.
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%11
- Safety20%No data
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%75
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%14
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
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- Corporate tax
- 35%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 3.5%
- 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
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- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
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- HomicidesPer 100,000 people
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Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
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- Mobile downloadMbps, median
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- Change in a yearFixed download speed
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Cities in Chad
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.