Budapest is scoring higher and higher on the livability list
Vienna continues to offer the best quality of life among the world’s big cities, Budapest is among the fastest-improving cities and is in the top five of the list according to this year’s global ranking presented in London by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
One of the world’s largest analytical and forecasting institutes examined the quality of life in 173 large cities again this year in terms of stability, health care, education, culture and environment, as well as infrastructure. The company assigns numerical ratings to these and sums them up with different weightings in a comprehensive quality index ranging from zero to one hundred.
In this year’s EIU global liveability index – Global Liveability Index 2024 – the Austrian capital earned 98.4 points out of a possible 100.
Vienna leads the livability list of the world’s big cities for the third time in a row. The top ten also includes Copenhagen, Zurich, Melbourne, Calgary, Geneva, Sydney, Vancouver, Osaka and Auckland.
The EIU states that Western Europe is the most livable region in the world as a whole. The average score of the 30 Western European cities included in the 2024 quality of life list is 92, although this is 0.3 percentage points lower than last year’s result, primarily due to the weakening of the stability criterion. The company justifies this with crime and the protest demonstrations that have taken place in several large Western European cities, which have caused serious upheavals more than once.
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