50 top cities to live in based on the global liveability index, 2018.

However, in the past year this is now starting to stabilize there have been no changes to the top tier cities. 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. The 140 cities surveyed have been chosen as cities or business centers people might want to visit or live in.

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 ranking assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. 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. World's Best Places to Live: The Global Liveability Index In the same survey last year, Singapore was ranked at 35th, better than Hong Kong’s 45th, due to improvements in education. Baptist said that Hong Kong did better on cultural and environmental issues, whereas Singapore excelled in housing supply and health care services. 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. Singapore dropped two places from last year while Hong Kong has raced ahead by 10 places. The latest study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a British-based research and analysis group, ranked Singapore at 37th, and Hong Kong at 35th. The study, which polled 180 cities worldwide, ranked cities located in Australia, Canada and Japan as the top most liveable cities in the world. But Singapore? We are at #37 on the world list, and #11 in Asia-Pacific. 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.

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.

50 top cities to live in based on the global liveability index, 2018.