Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and financial hub has been listed among the world’s ‘least liveable’ cities in 2021.
According to ‘The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index’, Karachi has been named as the seventh lease liveable city in the world.
EIU’s statistics show that Asia-Pacific region’s cities have performed poorly in the survey with an average score of 68.6 which was previously recorded at 73.09 prior to COVID-19 pandemic.
Syrian capital Damascus tops the list of world’s least liveable cities, followed by Nigeria’s Lagos, PNG’s Port Moresby, Bangladesh’s Dhaka, Algeria’s Algiers, Libya’s Tripoli, Zibmbabwe’s Harare, Cameroon’s Douala and Venezuela’s Caracas.
Meanwhile, New Zealand’s city of Auckland has been termed as the ‘most liveable’ city in the world – a title held previously by Austrian capital Vienna.
The Liveability Index examines 140 cities worldwide to quantify the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle in the past year, for the first time taking into account this disrupting global event. Each city is assigned a liveability score for more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
