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The Economist names Vienna the world’s most liveable city for 2023, while Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto remain in the top 10

2023-07-22 /

Vienna has retained its crown as the world’s most liveable city, according to Economist’s annual index.

The 2023 Global Liveability Index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The 2023 Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual ranking has also included three Canadian cities among the worlds top 10 most liveable. Australia and Switzerland each have 2 entries. Denmark, Japan, and New Zealand each had one city in the top rankings.

1. Vienna 🇦🇹
2. Copenhagen 🇩🇰
3. Melbourne 🇦🇺
4. Sydney 🇦🇺
5. Vancouver 🇨🇦
6. Zurich 🇨🇭
7. Calgary 🇨🇦 (tie)
7. Geneva 🇨🇭 (tie)
9. Toronto 🇨🇦
10. Osaka 🇯🇵 (tie)
10. Auckland 🇳🇿 (tie)

The Global Liveability Index 2023: optimism amid instability

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Top 10 Freest Countries on Earth

2023-07-01 /

Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or nonstate actors.

  • 🇳🇴 Norway » Global Freedom Score 100
  • 🇫🇮 Finland » 100
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden » 100
  • 🇳🇿 New Zealand » 99
  • 🇨🇦 Canada » 98
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark » 97
  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands » 97
  • 🇺🇾 Uruguay » 97
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland » 97
  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg » 97

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Three Canadian cities — Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto — ranked among world’s top 10 most livable

2023-06-23 /

Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto ranked in the top 10 according to a long-running Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest survey, the Global Liveability Index 2023 ranking of 173 metropolises.

For 2023, the world’s 10 most livable cities according to the EIU are:

  1. Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
    For the second year, the Austrian capital took the title of world’s most liveable city in the world.
  2. Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
  3. Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
  4. Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
  5. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
  6. Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
  7. Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦
  8. Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭
  9. Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
  10. Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵  and Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿 (tie)

Least liveable of the cities ranked include Douala, Cameroon; Kyiv, Ukraine; Harare, Zimbabwe; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Karachi, Pakistan; Lagos, Nigeria; Algiers, Algeria; Tripoli, Libya; Damascus, Syria.

Read the report » Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2023

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