CEOWORLD magazine New Zealand’s capital Wellington has been named as the best city in the world when it comes to quality of life, according to Deutsche Bank’s Mapping the world’s prices report 2017, while New York, Paris and London fail to make top 25.
Edinburgh in the UK is named as having the world’s second highest quality of life, followed by Vienna, Melbourne, and Zurich.
The highest-ranking cities in Asia are Tokyo (27), Bangalore (34), Hong Kong (36), Shanghai (37) Moscow (38), Singapore (39), New Delhi, (41), Beijing (42), Jakarta (44), Mumbai in India (45), Kuala Lumpur (46), Manila (47) respectively.
The ranking is based on 8 factors including Cost of living, climate, health-care, property price to income ratio, purchasing power, safety, traffic commute time, and pollution.
Without further ado, here were the top 47 major cities in the world for quality of life. Is your city on the list?
These 47 major cities have the highest quality of life in the world, 2017
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Vienna, Austria
- Melbourne, Australia
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Ottawa, Canada
- Boston, United States
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sydney, Australia
- Helsinki, Finland (TIE)
- Berlin, Germany (TIE)
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Toronto, Canada
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Madrid, Spain
- Cape Town, South Africa
- San Francisco, United States
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Dublin, Ireland
- Chicago, United States
- Warsaw, Poland
- Brussels, Belgium
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Oslo, Norway
- Tokyo, Japan
- New York, United States
- Milan, Italy
- Paris, France
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Athens, Greece
- London, United Kingdom
- Bangalore, India
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai, China
- Moscow, Russia
- Singapore
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- New Delhi, India
- Beijing, China
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Mumbai, India
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Manila, Philippines