What does Belize cost?
The sourced primitives, the categories the public data could not cite, and an honest read on what the affordability grade can and cannot say yet.
On the documented formula Belize lands at 29% of a comparable US city → A-. But this is the thinnest dataset in the round: Numbeo carries only 13 contributors, so housing and daily living are sourced but weakly supported. Food is the Numbeo Groceries Index (52.6, also thin-sample) at the disclosed site-wide anchor; Healthcare ($6.91/mo per person, WHO GHED) is high-confidence institutional data. Read the grade with the low-confidence caveat in mind. PPP cross-check (World Bank price-level ratio, 2024) is 0.56.
Numbeo "1BR City Centre" $476.87/mo (Numbeo serves USD directly).
The cross-market Food instrument is the Numbeo Groceries Index 52.6 (New York = 100), converted to a monthly USD figure by the single disclosed anchor described on the methodology page → $519/mo.
Average out-of-pocket health spending per person — WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, out-of-pocket expenditure per capita (current US$), indicator SH.XPD.OOPC.PC.CD: Belize $82.86/yr (2023, latest available) ÷ 12 = $6.91/mo.
Numbeo (USD-served): basic utilities 85m² $136.96 + internet 60Mbps $55.50 + monthly transit pass $22.41 = $214.87/mo.
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