Besides Hawaii, which are the best places to live? Each year, InterNations publishes its Expat Insider report publishing since 2018.
The 2025 edition draws on feedback from more than 10,000 expats representing 172 nationalities, offering a unique window into the best places to live in the world for work, lifestyle and affordability.
This year’s report ranks 46 countries by looking at factors like Quality of Life, Ease of Settling In, Working Abroad, Personal Finance and the Expat Essentials Index (which covers housing, administration, language and digital life). This year’s report ranks 46 countries, down from 53 in 2024, since only destinations with at least 50 survey responses are included.
Panama: The Best Country To Live In For the second year in a row, Panama has been named the best country to live in, with an impressive 94% of expats reporting that they are happy to live there. “Panama achieves top three results across all indices and top 10 results across almost all subcategories of our survey—which is quite outstanding,” Kathrin Chudoba, editor-in-chief of InterNations, told me in an interview.
