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.
“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.”
A very good point. What’s happened is that our nation has been overwhelmed by foreigners; too many, too quickly to properly assimilate. We’ve in addition been indiscriminate about who we let in. The result is a permanent underclass of angry misfits, which is destabilizing as all hell.
I share that view as well. History agrees.
Hey, they forgot Denver. :)
I spent a fair amount of time in Australia a few years ago.
Most of the time was with friends who had immigrated their in the 1960’s when only people of European heritage were encouraged to immigrate.
Essentially, what happened is the country was run by the party of country people, and the powerful politicians were those with large farms/ranches/stations who made their wealth from agriculture.
After the 1970’s the labor party was able to guilt trip the country party into allowing vast numbers of non-European heritage people to immigrate to the cities. By the middle of the 1980’s, the votes had shifted to the cities. The Left became the dominant power, and the governance of Australia went downhill fast.
My experience is Australian prices are about 1.5-3 times prices in America (a few years ago), and they tend to follow the trajectory of England. Very sad.
Where did you see the word “muslim” in my post ???
You have never been to Vancouver. Asian gangs having gunfights in the street are *not* well assimilated. Both south and east asians.
There's a joke that's not very funny that goes: "What's the name of the river that separates India from China?"
The Fraser!
If this is true, why is everyone on the planet trying to get into America? Just asking for a friend.
Does this include most liveable gor babies in their momma?
Didn’t think so. Go get a pedicure.
Australia ranks ahead of the United States in:
OECD Better Life Index
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/tools/oecd-better-life-index.html
Legatum Prosperity Index
https://index.prosperity.com/rankings
Freedom House Index
https://freedomhouse.org/country/australia
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states
Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index
https://www.heritage.org/index/pages/country-pages/australia
https://www.heritage.org/index/pages/country-pages/united-states
However, none of these measures includes your important variable of how white is the population. Australia is becoming, like the U.S. and Canada, a country with a large Asian minority; and those Asians are as good or better than we Europeans in a lot of ways. They have intact families, raise their children well, obey the law, and they have strong work and save ethics.
Take a look at the 2024 U.S. Math team - the world champion math team.
https://maa.org/news/usa-first-at-imo/
Vancouver?
Oriental gangs and rampant crime and hard drug use.
No way it should be on the list.
Every previous such “finding” focused on issues like: free healthcare for immigrants, $$ for fighting global warming, inclusion of non-assimilating cultures, Gender rights, etc, etc etc.
Those issues are buried in these findings. Don’t trust anything like this without digging into the details for the criteria they used.
I saw a cool riot between Kurds and Turks in Vienna.
I’ve also been to Zurich and it was insanely expensive.
Sydney on the other hand was very affordable and the people there were very friendly.
Never saw more bums in my life than I saw in Vancouver.
Actually, you’re much better off in Bratislava, an hour away from Vienna. Much cheaper, and much less ‘diverse’.
If you can’t raise chickens, cows, and grow vegetables you can’t live there.
My ranking did not have anything to do with how “white” they are. It is about how bad the government has become.
It has become much more socialist, much more restrictive, much more concerned with some sort of “restorative justice”.
Electricity is becoming more of an expense than mortgages, for many people.
A couple of examples:
You cannot carry a pocket knife, except if you can tell a policeman what “legitimate purposes you are carrying it for”.
It is easier to obtain a permit to have a rifle (which takes some effort) than to have a slingshot.
I cannot be sure the immigration of non-European types was the crucial key to the vote-power change, but it was coincident with it.
The rankings cited, as with all such things, are very subjective.
“Take a look at the 2024 U.S. Math team - the world champion math team. https://maa.org/news/usa-first-at-imo/“
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level (Wikipedia).
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship (Wikipedia).
My impression is that the MAA is the more political (e.g., DEI) of the two.
I apologize. Iwas Not talking to you directly. Referring to article.
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