No hardship location for these cities! For the second year in a row, Vienna, Austria, has been ranked by The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) as the world's most livable city. Music, art, the grandeur of architecture, it's amazing coffee culture - all of these played a role in achieving a near perfect score of 99.1 and keeping it at the top of the annual index which ranks 140 cities on 30 different factors that are split into five different categories:
- stability
- health care
- culture and environment
- education and
- infrastructure
After displacing Melbourne last year, it maintained its form and won out in 2019's version of The Global Liveability Index 2019. Here is a list of the top 10:
- Vienna, Austria
- Melbourne, Australia
- Sydney, Australia
- Osaka, Japan
- Calgary, Canada
- Vancouver, Canada
- Toronto, Canada & Tokyo, Japan tied
- Toronto, Canada & Tokyo, Japan tied
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Adelaide, Australia
The cities within this top 10 list did not change from last year except that Sydney bumped itself up into third from fifth last year by improving its environment score as it rolled out a 2030 strategy to address and combat the impact of climate change.
Check out the full list to see where the destinations in your mobility program sit.