Cost of living in Moldova
A single person living in Moldova spends around $283/month excluding rent. Per-city numbers below, every figure with its source; rent is shown separately in the Housing sections, by apartment type.
Verified
At a glance
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Curated by SettleMetric
- Data as of
- Dec 31, 2025
- Verified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Method
- NBS Household Budget Survey: average consumption expenditure = 4,995.5 lei per person per month in 2025 (+13.3% vs 2024). Converted at 17.6457 MDL/USD (BNM 2026-07-02) → $283. Utilities are kept in the basket (consistent with the Romania/Czechia peer method); pure rent is excluded — Moldova's HBS does not separately publish actual rentals and homeownership is very high (~95%+, post-Soviet privatization), so paid rent is a minor, non-separable component.
- Notes
- National all-households per-capita basis (same low-reading basis as peers). One of the cheapest countries in Europe. Chișinău runs above the national average.
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Chișinău listing-portal asking rents (proimobil.md / 999.md / makler.md aggregates)
Curated by SettleMetric
- Data as of
- Jul 14, 2026
- Verified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Method
- Chișinău asking rents for a 1-bedroom ('2 camere' = living room + 1 bedroom): market range €250–700/mo; central portals show 1-bedroom €450–600; a city-wide average (incl. older/non-central stock) ≈€390–400 → ≈$450 at 1.1399 USD/EUR (BNM cross). Recorded $450 (range ≈$400–560, central higher).
- Notes
- Chișinău dominates the national rental market (asking prices quoted in EUR). Rents rose ~25–30% in 2024. City-wide average; central renovated units run to the top of the range.
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Official source
- Data as of
- Jan 1, 2026
- Verified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Notes
- Honest gap on the private figure. Moldova runs mandatory public health insurance (AOAM/CNAM): the 2026 self-payer fixed premium is 12,636 lei/year (≈$716), and foreigners with residence rights qualify for the 80%-reduced premium (~2,527 lei ≈ $143). Private voluntary insurance exists (Moldasig, Grawe, Donaris, Asito) but premiums are quoted only on request and no comprehensive figure is publicly listed → null. The public mandatory premium above is the closest sourced anchor.
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Curated by SettleMetric
- Data as of
- Dec 31, 2025
- Verified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Method
- NBS 2024 consumption structure (food 39.9%, housing/utilities 17.2%, clothing 7.7%, transport 7.6%, furnishings 5.4%, health 4.5%, communications 3.9%, remainder ≈13.8%) applied to the 2025 per-capita total 4,995.5 lei/mo, converted at 17.6457 MDL/USD. Housing shown as utilities only (rent excluded). Items sum to ≈$283. Food's very high 39.9% share is typical of a low-income economy.
- Notes
- 2024 structure is the latest categorical split published; the 2025 release gives the total but not the full re-split. The 'Other' bucket is the NBS residual not itemized on the accessible page.
National household-budget-survey basket. Rent is shown separately below.
Details
Cost of living (single, excl. rent)283USD/month, single person, excluding rent10.0
What this measures
Monthly cost of a defined single-person basket (food, transport, utilities, mobile+internet, modest leisure) excluding rent, curated from national statistics office price data and large local retailers' published prices, converted to USD at the ECB rate recorded in fx-rates. The method field of each value itemizes the basket inputs.
Curated by SettleMetric
- Data as of
- Dec 31, 2025
- Verified
- Jul 14, 2026
- Method
- NBS Household Budget Survey: average consumption expenditure = 4,995.5 lei per person per month in 2025 (+13.3% vs 2024). Converted at 17.6457 MDL/USD (BNM 2026-07-02) → $283. Utilities are kept in the basket (consistent with the Romania/Czechia peer method); pure rent is excluded — Moldova's HBS does not separately publish actual rentals and homeownership is very high (~95%+, post-Soviet privatization), so paid rent is a minor, non-separable component.
- Notes
- National all-households per-capita basis (same low-reading basis as peers). One of the cheapest countries in Europe. Chișinău runs above the national average.
Private healthcare costno verified data—
What this measures
Median of at least three publicly quoted annual premiums for comprehensive private medical insurance (outpatient + inpatient, ~$100k coverage, small deductible) for a healthy 35-year-old resident foreigner, from local and international insurers. Method field lists the insurers quoted.
Honest gap on the private figure. Moldova runs mandatory public health insurance (AOAM/CNAM): the 2026 self-payer fixed premium is 12,636 lei/year (≈$716), and foreigners with residence rights qualify for the 80%-reduced premium (~2,527 lei ≈ $143). Private voluntary insurance exists (Moldasig, Grawe, Donaris, Asito) but premiums are quoted only on request and no comprehensive figure is publicly listed → null. The public mandatory premium above is the closest sourced anchor.
City detail pages: Chișinău