Global Liveability Index

• 05 Sep 2019

Indian cities have not fared too well in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index for 2019.

• New Delhi with 118^th rank has regi stered the biggest decline in Asia whereas Mumbai also fell two places since last year to rank 119^th.
• The decline in Mumbai’s rank was mainly due to a downgrade in its culture score.
• New Delhi has fallen in the index because of downgrades to its culture and environment score as well as fall in the stability score owing to rising crime rates.
• The list is topped by Vienna (Austria) for the second consecutive year.
• Asian cities overall have scored slightly below the global average.
• Among the ten least liveable cities globally, three are from Asia which are:
  
  • Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea (135^th)
  • Pakistan’s Karachi (136^th)
  • Bangladesh’s Dhaka (138^th)
• Among the BRICS countries, Suzhou from China was ranked highest at 75, while India’s capital New Delhi was ranked lowest at 118^th.

Global Liveability Index

• The Economic Intelligence Unit considered 140 cities for rankings.
• The ranking is based on a particular country’s scores in five broad categories, namely:
  
  • Stability
  • Healthcare
  • Culture and Environment
  • Education
  • Infrastructure
• Each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, ncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable.

Source:TH