The Economist Intelligence unit came out with a special report on the world’s most liveable and not very liveable cities 2019.
The most liveable countries are
- Vienna, Austria
- Melbourne, Australia
- Sydney, Australia
- Osaka, Japan
- Calgary, Canada
- Vancouver, Canada
- Tokyo, Japan & Toronto, Canada
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Adelaide, Australia
The report stated that the most exposed to the effects of climate change have seen their scores downgraded which include New Delhi in India, suffering from bad air quality, Cairo in Egypt and Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Despite the risk to future scores posed by climate change, a longer-term view suggests that overall liveability has been improving in recent years.
In the sample of global cities, the average liveability score has increased by 0.5 percentage points, to just under 76, over the past five years, driven primarily by higher scores in the stability category.