LAGOS RANKS 2ND ON WORLD’S LEAST LIVEABLE CITIES
Lagos has been ranked second on the World’s Least Liveable Cities. Lagos ranks 2nd, behind Damascus and ahead of Tripoli and Dhaka on the annual report by the Economist.
On the other spectrum, Melbourne has topped a list of the World’s Most Liveable city for the seventh year running, but terrorism and diplomatic tensions are eroding living conditions worldwide, an annual report from the Economist has found.
The Australian city was ranked number one out of 140 cities, slightly ahead of the Austrian capital Vienna, with the Canadian trio of Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary completing the top five.
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The survey, released Wednesday, scores cities on five broad categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education and infrastructure. The Economist’s Intelligence Unit found that medium-sized cities in wealthy countries fared best.
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“These can foster a range of recreational activities without leading to high crime levels or overburdened infrastructure,” the report said. Major hubs like New York, London, Paris and Tokyo were hives of activity but lost points due to high levels of crime and overcrowded public transport.
Conflict was the main factor for those cities finishing on the bottom of the survey, with Syria’s Damascus at number 140, behind Nigeria’s Lagos, under threat from Islamist groups like Boko Haram and Libyan capital Tripoli, caught up in middle eastern strife.
