Where to live in Nauru
We track one city in Nauru: Yaren. It averages 28°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,494 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Safety
- 61/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 57/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 7.0/10
- estimated
Estimated from World Bank indicators and calibrated to the scales of our reference tables: safety from the Worldwide Governance Indicators Political Stability and Absence of Violence estimate (GOV_WGI_PV.EST, 2025) and life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN, 2024), healthcare from the life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN, 2024) and current health spending per person in US dollars (SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD, 2023), cost of living from the price level of GDP relative to the United States, from GDP per person in US dollars and at purchasing power parity (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD, 2025) and democracy score from the Worldwide Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability estimate (GOV_WGI_VA.EST, 2025). Source: The World Bank (World Development Indicators, Worldwide Governance Indicators), CC BY 4.0.
Limited data for Nauru. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Nauru are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no tax, English, social openness or internet speed figures for Nauru, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaren | smaller | coastal | 28°C | 2,053 mm | €3,494 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally, from the World Bank price level.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Nauru offers no income, means, or retirement residence permit and ordinary residency is highly restrictive (work or business sponsorship, then 2+ years before any permanent status), so the only realistic self-funded long-term route is its citizenship-by-investment program, which grants indefinite residence directly with no residence requirement.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Nauru:
- Investment: about $95k (Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program, USD 90,000 contribution plus USD 5,000 application fee under the limited-time offer valid until 30 June 2026 (standard USD 115,000 + USD 5,000); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 3 of 198 passports can enter visa-free, 11 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival and 184 need a visa in advance.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).