Global Liveability Survey picked Australian city Melbourne as the World’s most Liveable City

Aug 31, 2011, 15:40 IST

International Current Affairs August 2011. According to the Global Liveability Survey, Australian city Melbourne found to be the world’s most liveable city

According to the economic intelligence unit’s new Global Liveability Survey, Australian city Melbourne was found to be the world’s most liveable city, while India’s business capital Mumbai was placed at 116th position. The annual survey assessed living conditions in 140 global cities.


Melbourne surpassed Vancouver to become the best city in the world to live. The Canadian capital city, Vancouver had topped the survey since 2002. However vancouver fell to third place in 2011 behind Vienna which was at the second place.


 According to the report, India’s commercial hub Mumbai is ranked 116th, one place up from its previous year‘s ranking. In 2010, Mumbai was ranked 117th while Delhi was at 113th position.


Other Australian cities in the top 10 included Sydney, placed at 6th, while Perth and Adelaide ranked 8th and 9th.
The top 10 cities included Toronto at (4th), Calgary (5th), Helsinki (7th) and Auckland (10th). London was ranked 53, while at 26 Honolulu was the top US city.


The worst to live in among the 140 locations were Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh’s Dhaka and Zimbabwe’s Harare.

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