According to this year’s Global Liveability Index, the world’s most liveable city is Vienna in Austria, and the least liveable city is Dakar in Senegal. Pull the lens closer to the Asia-Pacific, and the most livable city in this region would be Melbourne, also the second-most livable city in the world, and last year’s chart-topper. But Singapore? We are at #37 on the world list, and #11 in Asia-Pacific. Not even top 10!
The study, which polled 180 cities worldwide, ranked cities located in Australia, Canada and Japan as the top most liveable cities in the world . The latest study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a British-based research and analysis group, ranked Singapore at 37th, and Hong Kong at 35th. Singapore dropped two places from last year while Hong Kong has raced ahead by 10 places.
Simon Baptist, global chief economist and managing director of the unit in Asia, told the South China Morning Post that the factors which affected the ranking of the two cities are stability, culture and environment, education, health care and infrastructure. Baptist said that Hong Kong did better on cultural and environmental issues, whereas Singapore excelled in housing supply and health care services. In the same survey last year, Singapore was ranked at 35th, better than Hong Kong’s 45th, due to improvements in education.
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World's Best Places to Live: The Global Liveability Index
The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual liveability index has been out for a couple of weeks now and Lagos remains at the bottom of the list. The ranking assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. This is worked out for every city by assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and infrastructure. The 140 cities surveyed have been chosen as cities or business centers people might want to visit or live in.
In the last five years, globally, liveability as declined by 0.68 percentage points; this may be due to unrest in the wake of the global economic crisis. However, in the past year this is now starting to stabilize; there have been no changes to the top tier cities. Cities in Canada and Australia continue to be the most liveable cities with Melbourne leading the way.
The cities at the top tend to be mid-sized cities in wealthier countries with a relatively low population density. Therefore people in these cities can enjoy recreational activates without leading to high crime rates or being a burden on the infrastructure.
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Global Liveability Index 2018
In this year’s Global Liveability Index 2018, Vienna displaces Melbourne as the most liveable city in the world. This free report summarises the survey’s latest findings, as well as highlighting the top ten most and least liveable cities.
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The world's most liveable cities in 2018
After Vienna, Copenhagen was the only other European city in the top ten
Melbourne has finally lost the title of world's most liveable city after a seven-year reign.
The Australian city came in second place on the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2018 ranking of the world's most liveable cities, missing out on the top spot by just 0.7%.
It was pipped to the post by Vienna, which received an overall score of 99.1% on the annual list, which assesses stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure in 140 different cities.
EIU attributes Austria's capital's rise to the top to increased security scores due to a return to relative stability across much of Europe after high-profile terrorist attacks in recent years.
Melbourne's unseating isn't the only noticeable shift after years of very little change among the highest ranks.
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These are the top 10 most liveable cities in the world
Cities in the U.S. aren't as "liveable" as those in Australia, Japan and Canada
This is according to The Global Liveability Index 2018, an annual report by The Economist Intelligence Unit released August 14. Out of 140 cities around the world determined the most livable, not one American city made the top 20. Honolulu, Hawaii came closest, ranked No. 23 globally.
Vienna, Austria is ranked the No. 1 most liveable city in the world. This is the first time the city ranked as the most livable on the list, displacing Melbourne, Australia, which had a record seven-year winning streak. Melbourne is now ranked second.
For its methodology on ranking the cities, The EIU assessed which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Every city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability (looking at things like crime, conflict and terrorism), healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure.
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The 50 most livable cities in the world in 2018
The Economist Intelligence Unit released its annual Global Livability Index, measuring the most livable cities in the world.
For the first time in eight years, Melbourne, Australia, did not finish in the No. 1 spot.
The cities were judged by metrics like crime rates, healthcare quality, infrastructure, and levels of corruption.
The US had several cities on the list, but none in the top 20.
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