Kosovo
Republic of Kosovo
- Capital
- Pristina
- Region
- Southeast Europe
- Population, 2025
- 1.6 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 10,908 km²
Across Kosovo's 14 priced cities, one person needs about $810 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $712.
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%55
- Safety20%59
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%81
- Connectivity10%41
- Cost10%85
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
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 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
- 58.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 41.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 1.9
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #88 worldwide
- 90
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +11%
Cities in Kosovo
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Pristina | 63 | 29.5 | $400 | $712 | 96.5 | 550K | High confidence, 48 contributors |
| 2Prizren | 61 | 28.3 | $306 | $554 | 86.6 | 171.5K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 3Mitrovica | 60 | 26.8 | $250 | $430 | 75.4 | 107K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 4Pec (Peja) | 57 | 27.5 | $174 | $493 | 95.9 | 49K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 5Dečani | 56 | 29.7 | — | — | — | 50.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Vitina | 56 | 29.7 | — | — | — | 47K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Istok | 56 | 29.7 | — | — | — | 40K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Podujevo (Podujeva) | 56 | 29.3 | — | — | — | 35K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 9Leposavić | 56 | 29.7 | — | — | — | 19K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10Kačanik | 56 | 29.3 | — | — | — | 9.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 11Gracanica | 56 | 29.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Mališevo | 56 | 29.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Gjilan (Gnjilane) | 54 | 26.6 | $287 | $459 | 76.5 | 51.9K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 14Skendaraj | 51 | 39.3 | $460 | $697 | 75.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 15Gjakova (Djakovica) | — | — | — | — | — | 94.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 16Djeneral Janković | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |