global liveability index 2018 indian cities

While New Delhi has been given an overall score of 56.3, Mumbai has got 56.2, while top-ranked Vienna has scored 99.1 and least-ranked Damascus (Syria) has got 30.7 points.Ī score between 50-60 points, which is the case for India, indicates constrained liveability conditions. But these improvements are under serious threat from an increasingly adverse climate,” EIU’s global forecasting director Agathe Demarais said. “In recent years liveability has generally been rising, thanks to improvements in stability and better education and healthcare provision in cities within emerging markets. “We expect problems relating to climate change to put increasing pressure on liveability scores in the coming years and for the number of cities affected to grow. Each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. The EIU said its ranking of 140 cities is based on their scores in five broad categories - stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Several cities, such as New Delhi in India and Cairo in Egypt received substantial downgrades on their scores owing to problems linked to climate change, such as poor air quality, undesirable average temperatures and inadequate water provision,” the report said.

“This year we also note the demonstrable impact of the effects of climate change on liveability. The EIU said decline in Mumbai’s rank was mainly due to a downgrade in its culture score, while 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 study said that Asian cities overall have scored slightly below the global average while three Asian cities - Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea (135th), Pakistan’s Karachi (136th) and Bangladesh’s Dhaka (138th) - are among the ten least liveable globally. The EIU also flagged “an escalation in abuses against journalists in recent years” in India, citing a decline in the country’s ranking in Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index where India now sits in the bottom quartile of countries.

Global liveability index 2018 indian cities