Cheapest Countries for Remote Work
Stretch your salary further by working from countries with a lower cost of living. These rankings use the World Bank national price-level index (USA = 100). Each country appears once, represented by a city with complete climate, language, and livability data. US search and city pages also use a regional cost-of-living index; this guide still ranks countries by the national World Bank figure.
City rankings
- Zagreb
Croatia
- Cost of living
- 8% of US
- Sofia
Bulgaria
- Cost of living
- 23% of US
- Lahore
Pakistan
- Cost of living
- 26% of US
- Cairo
Egypt
- Cost of living
- 26% of US
- Mumbai
India
- Cost of living
- 26% of US
- Khartoum
Sudan
- Cost of living
- 27% of US
- Tashkent
Uzbekistan
- Cost of living
- 27% of US
- Baku
Azerbaijan
- Cost of living
- 28% of US
- Dushanbe
Tajikistan
- Cost of living
- 28% of US
- Kathmandu
Nepal
- Cost of living
- 29% of US
- Bishkek
Kyrgyzstan
- Cost of living
- 29% of US
- Minsk
Belarus
- Cost of living
- 29% of US
- Algiers
Algeria
- Cost of living
- 29% of US
- Colombo
Sri Lanka
- Cost of living
- 29% of US
- Kigali
Rwanda
- Cost of living
- 30% of US
- Antananarivo
Madagascar
- Cost of living
- 30% of US
- Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
- Cost of living
- 30% of US
- Freetown
Sierra Leone
- Cost of living
- 30% of US
- Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
- Cost of living
- 31% of US
- Lusaka
Zambia
- Cost of living
- 31% of US