Where to live in South Sudan
We track 3 cities in South Sudan: Juba, Winejok and Yei. Average temperatures run from 25°C to 30°C. For citizens from outside the East African Community, long-term residency is hard to obtain.
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- Safety
- 34/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 40/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 2.2/10
- 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) 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 South Sudan. Figures for safety, healthcare and political stability in South Sudan are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no tax, cost of living, English, social openness or internet speed figures for South Sudan, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The 3 cities we track
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.
Residency and visas
Hard to obtain, for people from outside the East African Community. The only realistic long-term route is an employer-sponsored work permit tied to a genuine job offer, renewable annually but not leading to permanent residency; there is no investor, golden-visa, or passive-income/means-based option.
Citizens of the East African Community have freedom-of-movement or simplified residency rights here.
For short visits, 3 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 195 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).