17:53 16 December 2023
Vienna to be the world’s most livable city in 2023
Living conditions in cities across the world have fully recovered from the deterioration caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, EIU’s latest livability index shows. It rates living conditions in 173 cities across five categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Cities in the Asia-Pacific region have rebounded the most. The index also suggests that life in cities is a bit better than at any time in the past 15 years.
Vienna, with its excellent mix of stability, culture, entertainment, and reliable infrastructure, tops the ranking for the fourth time in five years. Copenhagen, a similarly sized city with many of the same characteristics, is second. Melbourne, a fixture at the top of the ranking in the past, comes in third. In all, nine of the top ten cities are small to mid-sized; all ten, and indeed most of the top 50, are in rich countries.
