Posted on 07/11/2025 10:12:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every year, The Economist ranks cities around the world on livability, based on factors including crime and conflict to public transportation and education.
This map, via Visual Capitalist's Kayla Zhu, shows the 10 most livable cities in the world, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index 2025.
The index ranks cities on over 30 factors across five categories to determine their overall livability. Factors include:
Stability: Prevalence of crime, terror, military conflict, civil unrest/conflict
Healthcare: Availability and quality of private and public healthcare, general healthcare indicators
Culture and environment: Humidity/temperature rating, cultural and sporting availability, social or religious restrictions
Education: Availability and quality of private education, public education indicators
Infrastructure: Quality of road network, public transport, international links, availability of good housing
Below, we show the 10 most livable cities in the world according to The Economist, and their livability scores.
Copenhagen was ranked the most livable city in the world, ending Vienna’s three-year streak at the top of the rankings.
Denmark’s capital city scored perfect 100s across stability, education, and infrastructure, with an overall score of 98.
Vienna and Zurich tied for second with scores of 97.1. Switzerland—which had two cities rank in the top 10 for livability—also ranked first as the top migration destination to live and work in for 2025.
Vienna saw its scores for stability drop dramatically in the wake of a bomb threat before a Taylor Swift concert (later cancelled), and a planned attack on a city train station in 2025.
Overall, cities in Western Europe and Asia-Pacific continue to dominate the top of the rankings.
Vancouver, Canada is now the only North American city in the top 10, after Calgary saw the biggest drop in ranking, falling from fifth in 2024 to 18th in 2025 due to declines in its healthcare scores.
The average score for livability in 2025 was 76.1 out of 100, the same as 2024. However, scores in the stability category have continue to decline amid widespread geopolitical tension and civil unrest around the world.
To compare this list with last year’s livability rankings, check out the 2024 graphic here.
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White countries without the scourge of unassimilated immigrants.
The Economist was once a great magazine with little to no bias. Today is has become hopelessly left wing.
Osaka ? ; )
Over the past 15 years...I’ve been to seven of the ten listed. I’ll just say that buying into housing in each of the seven...is a problem and mostly unaffordable. I’ll add that crime is not a problem in the seven I visited (fairly safe to walk around after dark).
But, but, I thought diversity was our strength
Japan is a western country, but not a white country.
Aside from Osaka, all the cities in the top ten have large numbers of immigrants:
Melbourne (also Sydney and Adelaide) 51% (the figure is for Australia),
Vancouver 42%,
Zurich (also Geneva) 40% (the figure is for Switzerland),
Vienna 30%,
Copenhagen 27% (the figure is for Denmark), and
Auckland 23% (the figure is for New Zealand).
The problem isn’t race or immigration, it’s illegal aliens and migrants who don’t learn the national language and who don’t support themselves through work or otherwise.
thank you, pepsi.
The other side of the coin of a great city is affordability.
Here, in a small town, I live in a McMansion for a fraction of the cost of a studio apartment in New York City (and New York City, with its crime and filth, is no longer a great city).
If you’re uber rich, you can afford both a decent-sized condo in a city and a country estate. But, if you’re middle class and especially if you have children, you have to really think about cost and/or commuting time.
I don’t see LA on it?
Amazing how some of those “most liveable cities” are also cripplingly-expensive from top to bottom... (I’m especially looking at YOU, Vancouver!)
“Most Liveable” Cities only apply to those, who can AFFORD to actually live there.
Google those countries number of migrants, refugees and illegal aliens arriving in their borders compared to the US.
or San Fran.
Definite lack of diversity noted
This is pure BS
I looked it up.
Population is roughly around 600,000
150,000 are Muslim
Muslims make up more crime than the natives.
he city of Vienna, Austria, has a population of over 2 million residents. Specifically, the population is estimated to be around 2,005,760, according to Data Commons.
About 18% are Muslims
Information from 2024 police statistics in Austria indicates that nearly half of all crimes recorded involved non-Austrian suspects, amounting to roughly 157,000 individuals out of 336,000 suspects identified.
This of course false. These European listed countries are being overtun by migrants who commit more crime than the localsl
There’s not a city in the world you could pay me to live in. They all suck.
If you live in Denmark you have to be careful not to cross the border to Sweden.
Its like saying during the cold war, West Berlin is a nice city to live in, but beware crossing that wall.
My kind of talk.
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