What does the Dominican Republic 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.
The documented formula resolves what the DR record previously could not publish: it lands at 28% of a comparable US city → A-, the cheapest of the eight markets. Housing and daily living are Numbeo USD primitives; Food is the Numbeo Groceries Index (38.9, the lowest of the eight) at the disclosed site-wide anchor; Healthcare is the WHO out-of-pocket figure ($10/mo per person). PPP cross-check (World Bank price-level ratio, 2024) is 0.39, the cheapest of the eight on that measure too.
Numbeo "1BR City Centre" $646.63/mo (USD-served).
The cross-market Food instrument is the Numbeo Groceries Index 38.9 (New York = 100 — the lowest of the eight markets), converted to a monthly USD figure by the single disclosed anchor described on the methodology page → $384/mo.
Average out-of-pocket health spending per person — WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, out-of-pocket expenditure per capita (current US$), indicator SH.XPD.OOPC.PC.CD: Dominican Republic $122.49/yr (2023, latest available) ÷ 12 = $10.21/mo.
Numbeo (USD-served): basic utilities 85m² $102.50 + internet 60Mbps $37.63 + monthly transit pass $20.15 = $160.28/mo..
Five markets with the closest composite scores.
Anchors held constant across every country page.
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