The war in Ukraine will have widespread implications on the security of cities, the report suggests, while a potential new wave of COVID-19 cases may affect the liveability ranking of high- and middle-income cities. The report makes a variety of predictions about factors that could impact global liveability over the next few years. Germany’s Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Dussesdolf were the three cities to move most significantly up over the past 12 months. As a result, Perth and Adelaide have lost ground since last year.” “In Australia, some states were slower to lift restrictions than others. "Although New Zealand’s lockdowns ended in December, before our survey period, its cities no longer have a COVID-19 advantage over well-vaccinated European and Canadian cities,” the report explained. This year, however, Wellington, Auckland, Adelaide, Perth, and Brisane were among the largest “fallers,” dropping dozens of points each. In 2021, cities in New Zealand and Australia benefited from strict border lockdowns, which kept COVID-19 out and livability high - especially when much of the rest of the world saw floods of confirmed cases. While the easing of COVID-19 restrictions saw scores improve for some, it did the opposite for others. “ Encouragingly, however, all of the bottom 10, apart from Tripoli, have seen their score improve in the past year as COVID-19 restrictions have eased, with both Dhaka in Bangladesh and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea moving up three places each.”Īustralian cities fall in global liveability index, Vienna returns to top spot "Wars, conflicts, and terrorism are the biggest factors weighing down the 10 lowest-ranked cities, of which seven are from the Middle East and Africa,” the report reads. Tripoli in Libya, Algiers in Algeria, and Karachi in Pakistan round off the bottom five.Ĭities in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Iran similarly all feature in the index’s bottom 10.
Lagos, in second-to-last place, ties with Damascus on stability while ranking worse for health care and education. Damascus - the capital of Syria - sits squarely in last place as social unrest, terrorism, and conflict hold back education and health care access.
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