A European capital knocked the Australian city down to the number two spot.
Every year for the last seven years, Melbourne has ranked top of the Economist’s Most Liveable Cities in the World, which is judged on a mixture of everything economic stability, healthcare, the environment, public transport systems, traffic, and crime levels.
However, 2018 has finally seen the Australian city taken off the top spot and replaced by one of the two European entries on the list instead.
Yep, Vienna is now the World’s Most Liveable City, scoring an impressive 99.1 out of 100 on the above criteria.
Copenhagen joined the Austrian capital as the only other European city to break the top ten, with three cities from both Australia and Canada filling the majority of the rest of the list, and the final two spots going to major Japanese metropolitan areas.
As per the Economist Intelligence Unit, here is the top ten:
1. Vienna, Austria
2. Melbourne, Australia
3. Osaka, Japan
4. Calgary, Canada
5. Sydney, Australia
6. Vancouver, Canada
= 7. Toronto, Canada
= 7. Tokyo, Japan
9. Copenhagen, Denmark
10. Adelaide, Australia
And the bottom ten:
131. Dakar, Senegal
132. Algiers, Algeria
133. Douala, Cameroon
134. Tripoli, Libya
135. Harare, Zimbabwe
136. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
137. Karachi, Pakistan
138. Lagos, Nigeria
139. Dhaka, Bangladesh