Living in Mali

Earnings in Mali rank among the lowest anywhere, and prices are low to match while tax barely registers against your pay. What that leaves you is slim, the kind of margin that covers daily life and not much beyond it. Work is conducted in French, and an arrival without a local network will find hiring slow going.

Mali sends far more people abroad than it receives, with a diaspora of 1.3M that grew 16% over the past decade. Movement is overwhelmingly regional: the largest community is in neighboring Côte d'Ivoire (403.6K), followed by Nigeria and Niger.