Cost of Living inMoundou, Chad
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Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Chad: $2,413/capita.
Income Category
Happiness
4.5 / 10
#112 globally
GDP per Capita
City Population
Child Education
Public-schooling rules and international-school pricing are not sourced for Chad yet. Quality, expat-access, instruction language, and tuition will appear here once verified.
Childcare & Domestic Help
Nanny, housekeeper, and driver pricing is not yet sourced for Moundou. We publish this section only when we can tie it to local job-board, agency, or country fallback evidence.
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Moundou is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Chad.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Healthcare system
LimitedCoverage looks thinner, doctor staffing is lighter, and hospital capacity looks tighter weigh on this rating.
Public care
LimitedA visible public hospital footprint help, but public coverage looks thinner and public funding looks lighter.
Private care
LimitedThe tracked private-style network still looks thin, the private footprint is not very visible yet, and self-pay pricing transparency is still sparse weigh on this rating.
UHC coverage
26/100
2023
Physicians
0.09/1k
2023
Hospital beds
0.15/1k
2020
Out of pocket
52%
2023
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
55.2 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
748/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
30.4/1k
2024
International patient readiness
LimitedThe private footprint is still thin, price transparency is still sparse, and headline outcomes are less reassuring weigh on this rating.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce and few facilities expose web pages we can verify weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Chad yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
Notable facilities
System metrics: World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
| Sector | Median |
|---|---|
| Administrative & Support Services | — |
| Agriculture & Farming | — |
| Arts, Entertainment & Recreation | — |
| Construction | — |
| Education | — |
| Finance & Insurance | — |
| Healthcare & Social Work | — |
| Hospitality & Food Service | — |
| Information & Technology | — |
| Manufacturing | — |
| Mining & Quarrying | — |
| Other Services | — |
| Professional & Scientific Services | — |
| Public Administration & Defence | — |
| Retail & Wholesale Trade | — |
| Transport & Logistics | — |
| Utilities | — |
2022 annual wages in Moundou, Chad · Source: ILO ILOSTAT (national)
Price Comparison vs. US
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Quick comparison FAQ
Structured from the deltas already shown on this page — no invented facts, no extra data sources.
How far does your money go in Moundou compared with the US?
Your money goes about 2.7x further in Moundou than in the US, based on the current PPP estimate.
What quality-of-life signal do we have for Moundou?
The quality-of-life signal for Moundou is the World Happiness Report score for Chad — 4.5 (ranking #112 globally) in the latest available national data, which gives a rough national-level read for Moundou.
About Moundou
Moundou sits in southwestern Chad, serving as the capital of Logone Occidental Region and the country's second-largest city with roughly 196,124 residents. The city anchors a regional economy built on cotton processing, oilseeds, the Gala beer brewery as a major local employer, and growing oil-sector logistics tied to the Doba basin pipeline that runs to the Cameroonian coast. For relocation purposes Chad remains one of Africa's most challenging operational environments: the broader security context across the Sahel shapes movement, French serves as the administrative language alongside Arabic and Sara, the climate runs Sahelian with extreme heat and a short pronounced rainy season, and foreign presence is essentially limited to oil-sector contractors, humanitarian workers, and diplomatic personnel operating through N'Djamena.
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