And the best city to live in is...
What idea do you have when you think of a livable city ? Most people identify similar characteristics, although depending on the social moment in which we find ourselves, we point out one or the other as a priority.
As pointed out in the new study, ** The Global Liveability Index 2019 **, of The Economist Intelligence Unit , one of the main concerns of citizens is the pollution . If we evaluate the rankings of 2017 or 2018 we will see that terrorism was one of the main characteristics to consider a city habitable or not, however climate change is now our main concern.
“The concept of habitability is simple: evaluate which places around the world offer the best or the worst living conditions ”, they point out from the EIU.
How have they obtained these results? Each city is assigned a comfort rating relative to 30 qualitative and quantitative factors in five categories: stability, health, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Each factor in a city is classified as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. For qualitative indicators, a rating is given based on the judgment of internal analysts and taxpayers in the city. For quantitative indicators, the score is calculated based on various external data points ranging from 1 to 100; 1 is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal.
So thanks to the study in 140 cities around the world we can see that most of the cities that lead the ranking They belong to rich countries.
“These cities have well-funded public health systems, high-quality, compulsory education, and a good road and rail infrastructure . In addition to democratic electoral systems and in general, low levels of corruption ”.
For example, cities like London and New York do not lead the ranking despite having a highly rated culture and atmosphere, but lose percentages due to insecurity and pollution.
Vienna, the best city to live.
VIENNA, LEADER FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR
Despite the top 10 is led by Australian cities , Northern Europe remains firm in terms of habitability. **These may be the reasons...**
** Vienna remains the most liveable of 140 cities surveyed by The Economist Intelligence Unit** for the second year in a row. Although only 0.7 points difference with melbourne.
The EIU states that there have not been many changes compared to the previous year, although there have been some interesting movements such as sydney, the city has climbed points, reaching third position thanks to the efforts of improve its cultural commitment and environmental quality with the 'Sustainable Sydney 203' project.
In addition the stability has increased slightly thanks to the reduction of the threat of terrorism in all of them.
Due to recent social and political events, cities like Paris or Sri Lanka have dropped in the ranking. However, others like Jakarta improve in very slight percentages.
Cities like New Delhi, Cairo or Dhaka worsen due to air pollution. “Despite the risk posed by climate change in the future, a longer-term view suggests that in general habitability has improved in the last five years ”, they suggest.
THE 10 MOST LIVABLE CITIES
1.Vienna, Austria
2.Melbourne, Australia
3. Sydney, Australia
4.Osaka, Japan
5.Calgary, Canada
6.Vancouver, Canada
7.Toronto, Canada
8.Tokyo, Japan
9.Copenhagen, Denmark
10.Adelaide, Australia
Caracas in Venezuela is the last in the ranking.
And the world's least liveable cities in 2019 are...
1. Damascus, Syria
2. Lagos, Nigeria
3.Dhaka, Bangladesh
4.Tripoli, Libya
5.Karachi, Pakistan
6.Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
7.Harare, Zimbabwe
8.Douala, Cameroon
9.Algiers, Algeria
10.Caracas, Venezuela