Dhaka retains 4th least livable city position in Global Livability Index

Dhaka city has retained its fourth least liveable city position among 140 cities in the world in this year's Global Livability Index.Dhaka is only ahead of Tripoli of Libya, Lagos of Nigeria and Damascus of Syria.

The top 6 shifts in #liveability according to the latest ranking released today: https://t.co/svgAlldjsR#Liveability17 pic.twitter.com/X3B8b9fiSb

— The EIU Cities (@TheEIU_Cities) August 16, 2017

The capital of Bangladesh moved two steps up last year from 137th to 139th. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit-endorsed index, Dhaka was the second least livable city in the world in 2014 and 2015. [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srcpg_CI0_Q" /] The city scored 38.7 out of the ideal score of 100, unchanged from last year's. Dhaka has stuck in the same score since 2011.

On stability, Dhaka scored 50 while in healthcare, the score is 29.2, culture and environment 43.3, education 41.7 and infrastructure 26.8.

The rating, part of the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, quantifies the challenges that might be presented to an individual's lifestyle across five broad categories of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

#SriLanka #Colombo among biggest improvers during five years: Global Liveability Report https://t.co/jp317nDRwb#Liveability17— The EIU Cities (@TheEIU_Cities) August 16, 2017

Melbourne in Australia remains the most liveable of the 140 cities surveyed for the seventh consecutive years, followed by the Austria’s Vienna.

Here is the summary report for anyone's perusal-

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