The report was still mainly pro-ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ giving the city a score of 94.9 out of 100, meaning that “there are few, if any, challenges to living standards.”
The report was still mainly pro-ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ giving the city a score of 94.9 out of 100, meaning that “there are few, if any, challenges to living standards.”
Those complaining about ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½’s many problems might be validated by the latest worldwide livability rankings.Â
The city had one of the steepest drops in this year’s livability list, which is published by British media company The Economist Group. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ placed 16th this year after ranking 12th in the 2024 edition, the eighth biggest fall of any city.Â
The report was still mainly pro-ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ giving the city a score of 94.9 out of 100, meaning that “there are few, if any, challenges to living standards.”
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The ranking is put together from a score based off more than 30 factors, across the five broad categories of stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. All of the factors are then labelled acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable.
The company says health care strains docked points to many Canadian cities with Calgary getting the worst of it. The city finished fifth in 2024 but was this year’s biggest drop tumbling to 18th on the list.
Vancouver managed to stay in the top 10, placing tenth, but still saw a drop from 2024’s seventh place finish.Â
Copenhagen was deemed the world’s most livable city after finishing second in 2024. Vienna, Zurich and Melbourne rounded out the top five.
“Western Europe remains the best-performing region for liveability, having achieved the top scores in four of the five categories and outpaced only by North America for education,” the report read.
The company studied 173 cities for the ranking.Â
Kristjan Lautens is a staff reporter, working out of the Star’s
radio room in ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½. Reach him via email: klautens@thestar.ca
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