Quality of Life Index by City 2017

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Canberra, Australia 223.0 141.6 73.9 81.0 77.5 5.8 23.3 14.7 79.6
Raleigh, NC, United States 217.9 147.0 71.4 76.2 72.7 2.6 30.7 20.0 77.6
Wellington, New Zealand 213.7 120.3 70.1 69.5 77.3 5.8 25.1 11.2 87.8
Victoria, Canada 202.8 118.1 65.6 67.9 73.8 5.4 27.3 12.5 75.4
Edinburgh, United Kingdom 200.5 100.2 71.0 80.6 72.0 7.1 20.6 15.6 69.7
Adelaide, Australia 199.8 110.8 66.3 73.3 80.2 6.0 29.9 22.0 89.3
Eindhoven, Netherlands 196.4 116.8 74.6 87.4 70.3 5.1 30.4 20.5 50.9
Vienna, Austria 195.8 98.5 78.2 81.1 68.6 13.7 25.5 19.0 75.4
San Diego, CA, United States 194.8 128.9 63.4 74.7 77.9 5.8 43.1 34.6 95.3
Melbourne, Australia 193.7 127.4 59.0 75.2 80.3 7.6 35.9 29.6 89.1
Brisbane, Australia 192.7 118.9 64.0 79.7 79.8 7.0 42.4 21.7 79.8
Zurich, Switzerland 192.0 134.5 81.9 73.6 130.0 10.4 33.8 14.1 61.0
Munich, Germany 191.9 123.5 84.3 82.7 71.8 12.3 33.6 17.4 44.6
Dallas, TX, United States 191.4 163.5 56.5 68.1 70.2 2.3 40.0 43.9 72.3
Sacramento, CA, United States 189.0 122.2 53.4 71.3 80.3 3.8 22.7 43.4 90.1
Bursa, Turkey 188.5 67.1 78.6 86.5 35.3 4.6 37.6 30.1 76.6
Salt Lake City, UT, United States 188.1 152.5 74.3 69.1 68.5 3.0 38.0 54.3 68.5
Luxembourg, Luxembourg 187.7 117.1 75.5 74.5 79.8 11.9 33.5 20.4 62.8
Cork, Ireland 187.3 116.8 67.6 62.0 74.2 6.1 39.5 18.5 70.1
Portland, OR, United States 186.8 117.8 55.9 70.7 80.6 5.2 29.7 22.5 69.1
Perth, Australia 186.4 113.7 54.9 71.5 85.7 6.5 36.7 27.8 90.9
Columbus, OH, United States 186.2 120.7 55.5 69.1 71.7 2.6 26.0 24.9 58.2
Copenhagen, Denmark 184.1 102.2 78.8 70.0 88.0 8.3 30.9 24.5 67.1
Ottawa, Canada 183.5 126.3 77.7 69.0 68.5 6.0 37.8 15.8 31.4
Boston, MA, United States 183.5 131.7 64.2 73.4 89.4 7.6 47.6 24.6 70.0
San Jose, CA, United States 182.8 152.9 49.0 63.5 82.8 5.8 33.4 55.9 96.1
Austin, TX, United States 181.8 126.8 65.3 71.6 74.1 4.6 40.3 36.3 67.1
Denver, CO, United States 180.7 139.9 63.6 77.8 82.6 4.1 36.5 37.9 51.9
Geneva, Switzerland 179.0 121.1 72.5 68.8 132.8 11.2 23.0 28.7 70.4
Leeds, United Kingdom 178.0 106.2 56.6 79.1 65.5 4.7 33.0 38.5 70.9
Gothenburg, Sweden 177.9 112.1 54.1 63.5 76.0 10.3 20.7 20.5 60.3
Seattle, WA, United States 177.8 119.8 60.5 73.2 90.5 6.0 43.4 31.4 74.1
Hamilton, Canada 177.7 130.2 51.9 80.0 61.5 5.8 38.2 41.4 65.0
Minneapolis, MN, United States 177.6 119.8 53.2 79.6 82.9 3.2 34.3 19.4 42.4
Vancouver, Canada 177.4 91.3 64.2 73.3 72.7 13.1 43.3 25.5 91.6
Tampa, FL, United States 176.2 100.2 55.4 68.8 75.8 3.8 32.1 23.3 62.7
Amsterdam, Netherlands 176.2 90.4 67.4 72.8 78.0 10.4 27.9 32.1 77.0
Glasgow, United Kingdom 175.6 103.5 52.7 87.4 68.9 5.0 45.1 29.9 68.3
Sydney, Australia 174.8 109.2 59.8 72.0 86.0 12.4 42.3 28.7 84.6
Helsinki, Finland 174.7 110.6 72.8 74.6 78.3 10.3 36.0 18.0 40.4
Berlin, Germany 174.7 116.1 63.3 78.7 64.2 8.8 32.4 42.1 62.3
Halifax, Canada 174.1 94.9 54.2 75.3 76.5 5.8 27.0 21.7 55.9
Auckland, New Zealand 172.5 102.2 54.4 69.7 83.9 10.1 39.9 28.6 84.8
Toronto, Canada 171.7 115.9 65.1 72.6 70.3 8.5 42.4 41.5 70.4
Gdansk, Poland 171.5 72.1 68.8 62.9 39.1 10.1 26.4 31.0 69.8
Reykjavik, Iceland 170.9 77.4 75.9 66.8 111.6 6.4 20.6 12.0 44.5
Frankfurt, Germany 170.6 114.9 60.9 71.5 75.2 8.9 27.6 37.3 56.2
Mangalore, India 169.5 106.4 82.5 78.8 21.9 5.1 30.9 18.5 -17.1
Calgary, Canada 169.1 116.7 67.2 69.6 75.2 5.7 37.1 24.7 33.5
Hamburg, Germany 168.7 106.9 52.0 82.9 75.8 9.6 33.8 27.5 53.5
Ljubljana, Slovenia 168.4 72.2 75.9 64.4 58.7 11.5 25.7 27.5 60.5
Porto, Portugal 167.7 66.3 56.1 75.3 48.7 9.3 31.8 40.5 89.8
Lisbon, Portugal 167.5 61.3 66.9 68.0 50.5 14.7 34.3 34.3 94.3
Rotterdam, Netherlands 166.8 100.4 59.1 77.6 71.9 5.8 31.8 40.7 58.7
Atlanta, GA, United States 166.5 148.4 35.2 65.6 76.1 2.7 39.0 54.6 74.5
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 166.5 148.3 79.2 70.1 47.8 2.4 40.3 71.1 38.0
Brno, Czech Republic 166.4 75.8 71.5 75.9 41.2 10.5 26.2 46.3 65.4
Tallinn, Estonia 165.6 68.8 77.0 68.4 51.4 11.4 28.5 21.2 44.6
Las Vegas, NV, United States 165.1 145.2 44.2 64.4 71.6 2.4 38.5 50.1 57.2
Taipei, Taiwan 165.1 119.8 84.2 84.7 66.2 15.6 31.5 47.7 35.2
Madrid, Spain 164.9 85.2 68.5 78.3 60.5 11.3 38.1 54.9 88.6
Zagreb, Croatia 164.2 67.1 71.4 68.1 48.6 11.1 31.3 36.4 70.4
Cape Town, South Africa 163.8 86.1 29.1 73.1 44.1 6.2 42.1 40.0 96.6
San Francisco, CA, United States 163.5 96.8 49.7 68.6 99.1 12.1 39.8 36.3 97.0
Montreal, Canada 163.4 103.2 65.0 61.9 71.2 6.5 40.9 32.3 55.2
Phoenix, AZ, United States 162.2 146.5 43.1 73.1 69.1 2.6 29.2 62.2 50.5
Houston, TX, United States 161.4 150.2 37.3 74.4 75.4 1.9 43.5 57.1 59.4
Philadelphia, PA, United States 161.1 129.7 40.9 69.9 86.3 2.6 41.7 50.9 70.8
Prague, Czech Republic 161.0 76.6 70.2 70.9 43.6 14.3 37.1 37.6 66.9
Cluj-Napoca, Romania 160.8 51.8 80.9 67.3 36.8 12.6 29.2 36.1 62.7
Stockholm, Sweden 160.2 102.0 54.2 68.0 83.4 15.4 39.4 16.3 55.4
Seoul, South Korea 160.2 90.9 76.2 87.0 79.8 17.8 34.2 37.5 53.6
Edmonton, Canada 158.8 113.8 59.3 76.1 72.7 5.6 35.2 27.6 18.7
Los Angeles, CA, United States 158.6 124.3 45.3 60.2 80.7 5.7 45.0 62.1 95.9
Bratislava, Slovakia 157.2 70.9 70.3 63.3 47.6 11.4 36.1 41.9 70.6
Orlando, FL, United States 156.3 107.5 45.0 64.2 79.5 2.8 39.7 37.7 57.7
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 155.9 136.1 84.5 58.4 66.0 4.8 25.6 54.5 6.0
Dublin, Ireland 154.9 99.0 47.2 51.1 79.7 8.0 36.9 33.0 71.4
Manchester, United Kingdom 154.4 97.0 46.8 76.7 69.1 6.0 41.9 52.3 74.1
Muscat, Oman 153.2 119.4 74.8 58.1 54.4 3.5 15.2 49.4 -0.6
Chicago, IL, United States 152.0 123.0 34.6 65.4 84.5 3.5 45.2 39.8 57.9
Warsaw, Poland 151.6 74.3 73.8 60.8 40.8 11.8 38.6 46.9 62.4
Timisoara, Romania 151.5 49.7 76.8 63.0 35.4 12.0 21.0 58.7 73.4
Banja Luka, Bosnia And Herzegovina 150.8 51.2 72.7 51.7 34.7 12.8 26.9 48.3 77.4
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel 150.2 90.0 68.7 75.6 80.1 18.3 40.2 52.9 78.6
Thessaloniki, Greece 150.1 50.4 66.1 67.2 55.9 9.1 24.6 63.0 89.1
Honolulu, HI, United States 150.0 85.6 63.6 65.5 99.5 10.0 39.4 42.9 71.9
Monterrey, Mexico 149.5 91.0 49.3 58.8 32.9 4.2 27.2 65.4 65.9
Brussels, Belgium 148.2 95.8 45.5 77.2 75.9 7.5 32.9 65.0 77.3
Barcelona, Spain 147.6 83.1 60.4 73.0 61.1 11.8 35.5 69.4 86.2
Regina, Canada 145.5 115.2 46.6 64.3 72.1 4.7 28.8 36.5 16.6
Izmir, Turkey 144.2 54.2 73.4 77.1 36.1 8.3 40.4 64.8 67.7
Johannesburg, South Africa 142.3 111.7 21.5 60.1 45.0 2.8 46.4 72.7 92.6
Novi Sad, Serbia 141.9 39.3 55.0 47.3 34.3 17.0 18.5 41.7 81.2
Oslo, Norway 141.8 101.5 51.2 70.3 106.9 10.3 40.4 24.7 31.8
Durban, South Africa 140.9 98.4 21.4 46.3 40.9 2.7 36.1 55.7 77.0
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 139.7 113.3 79.2 61.2 71.5 5.8 34.8 56.0 10.2
Riga, Latvia 139.5 52.0 62.7 58.1 49.2 10.5 29.0 33.9 43.0
Krakow (Cracow), Poland 138.7 73.9 68.9 63.2 38.6 11.1 32.3 68.9 60.6
Winnipeg, Canada 137.9 88.0 48.4 66.4 70.2 5.2 32.1 40.3 28.4
Curitiba, Brazil 137.0 50.7 34.8 57.0 49.7 11.8 39.0 43.4 93.4
Pune, India 136.9 103.5 54.2 65.7 27.2 8.4 50.0 77.4 65.1
Vilnius, Lithuania 136.7 54.1 67.6 69.6 47.2 15.3 29.8 25.8 20.6
Iasi, Romania 136.6 49.6 74.7 65.5 33.9 12.7 34.6 61.3 61.7
Tokyo, Japan 136.4 98.6 80.4 75.5 91.0 19.9 44.2 43.8 31.9
New York, NY, United States 135.9 100.0 52.4 65.1 100.0 12.9 48.2 59.4 80.5
Wroclaw, Poland 135.3 69.2 64.4 56.2 38.4 9.7 41.4 60.3 62.4
Sofia, Bulgaria 134.2 57.2 54.4 54.0 37.7 9.3 29.9 61.0 69.8
Medellin, Colombia 133.9 38.0 49.3 73.6 33.9 15.9 35.0 64.8 96.0
Turin, Italy 133.8 80.0 45.0 66.5 65.0 10.4 29.0 75.7 82.0
Budapest, Hungary 132.9 52.3 61.4 53.1 43.9 11.6 35.8 52.3 66.5
Guadalajara, Mexico 132.0 50.4 46.1 78.4 29.4 7.3 48.6 71.2 84.8
Doha, Qatar 131.3 111.7 83.4 65.6 69.0 6.4 33.0 73.9 9.3
Miami, FL, United States 130.9 90.4 46.1 55.7 86.2 6.6 42.1 40.1 42.0
Buenos Aires, Argentina 130.0 56.9 38.9 72.4 54.7 13.3 43.7 60.6 90.7
Hyderabad, India 129.9 74.1 62.7 69.6 24.1 7.1 40.4 80.5 53.7
Ankara, Turkey 129.5 62.0 57.2 70.2 37.3 7.0 35.5 73.5 58.5
Brasilia, Brazil 129.0 48.7 35.5 41.2 56.1 16.1 30.3 34.7 81.7
Milan, Italy 128.8 76.9 52.8 71.0 76.8 17.9 37.6 63.6 75.5
Belgrade, Serbia 127.7 40.3 62.9 55.6 36.3 21.2 33.4 58.5 84.2
Paris, France 127.5 95.4 47.2 72.7 83.2 16.8 41.6 68.5 73.0
Istanbul, Turkey 126.4 55.2 49.8 69.7 41.6 11.8 55.7 65.8 86.9
Athens, Greece 125.5 51.3 49.3 49.8 58.6 10.3 36.6 67.5 91.5
Tbilisi, Georgia 124.4 32.2 80.0 52.6 28.0 12.5 39.1 79.0 81.6
Yerevan, Armenia 124.2 33.3 70.8 51.7 34.6 14.7 28.9 60.1 61.9
Santiago, Chile 124.0 56.3 47.4 62.8 53.6 11.3 36.6 77.7 89.4
Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina 123.7 48.9 51.5 63.0 37.6 13.0 27.9 70.5 69.2
Bucharest, Romania 123.0 53.6 71.1 51.6 38.5 11.0 37.8 71.3 61.0
London, United Kingdom 120.9 83.3 53.8 69.3 81.6 27.8 47.3 55.7 75.7
Minsk, Belarus 119.6 36.4 78.6 58.9 34.7 18.8 28.0 42.3 20.1
Coimbatore, India 117.6 51.6 63.3 72.7 23.5 9.8 51.7 63.9 38.3
Bangalore, India 117.3 96.1 52.7 68.5 27.1 8.1 52.1 83.0 40.0
Amman, Jordan 116.8 41.7 55.2 71.6 61.8 8.4 50.3 81.6 88.4
Jeddah (Jiddah), Saudi Arabia 114.3 112.0 71.2 56.7 50.1 3.5 43.9 78.9 -1.5
Rome, Italy 114.0 72.4 44.5 58.4 74.1 23.0 46.7 66.6 90.1
Skopje, North Macedonia 112.1 39.7 55.7 63.2 34.5 15.9 34.3 82.0 75.5
Montevideo, Uruguay 108.9 32.4 44.3 67.2 70.2 20.0 51.8 56.6 89.1
Ahmedabad, India 106.7 61.7 71.3 70.6 26.0 8.9 39.5 72.3 0.5
Almaty, Kazakhstan 105.8 49.6 49.7 65.8 32.7 12.6 26.6 77.2 37.3
Porto Alegre, Brazil 105.7 47.5 23.0 56.2 52.8 13.6 43.9 59.6 77.1
Gurgaon, India 104.8 110.2 37.5 75.2 31.4 7.9 49.4 88.7 19.5
Beirut, Lebanon 104.2 51.8 50.8 67.7 64.3 15.1 35.2 87.4 69.4
Chiang Mai, Thailand 104.1 32.4 67.3 86.7 43.5 17.1 29.7 77.6 30.4
Mexico City, Mexico 103.0 58.2 33.9 66.9 33.6 10.0 54.1 88.0 77.0
Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) 94.5 81.5 79.3 68.0 80.0 36.1 42.2 69.9 29.7
Bogota, Colombia 94.4 36.7 36.4 65.2 38.3 21.1 46.0 74.1 73.3
Baku, Azerbaijan 93.5 30.6 72.5 35.9 28.6 20.1 39.8 86.7 68.1
Lviv, Ukraine 92.9 24.4 59.1 54.3 24.3 25.9 44.7 55.3 43.7
Saint Petersburg, Russia 92.3 50.1 57.7 61.3 44.4 14.7 52.1 62.4 20.2
Shanghai, China 90.9 74.2 65.4 59.0 54.4 32.6 45.9 87.3 59.2
Moscow, Russia 88.0 57.4 54.7 57.3 47.8 20.8 54.4 62.9 28.5
Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine 87.3 29.9 49.9 53.4 27.7 23.5 37.0 71.9 49.1
Lahore, Pakistan 87.2 47.3 48.9 59.3 32.3 13.6 40.3 80.1 27.5
Lima, Peru 87.2 44.4 31.7 60.0 43.0 15.2 45.4 89.3 71.2
Singapore, Singapore 86.5 92.7 83.4 69.9 82.4 21.6 43.4 37.0 -71.5
Sao Paulo, Brazil 85.7 42.5 27.8 54.6 57.9 18.7 46.1 86.1 87.3
Tehran, Iran 85.3 39.9 44.6 52.2 42.1 15.3 55.3 87.2 71.5
Karachi, Pakistan 85.0 43.2 35.8 57.3 28.6 8.5 40.8 95.3 50.2
Cairo, Egypt 82.5 28.1 44.1 42.5 22.8 10.8 52.4 96.0 75.6
Chennai, India 81.3 79.5 55.3 74.3 26.9 12.6 44.9 78.8 -29.9
Delhi, India 80.1 77.8 39.2 65.8 29.2 14.8 52.8 92.9 23.9
Colombo, Sri Lanka 78.9 24.9 68.1 79.2 38.2 22.6 56.5 59.2 2.4
Yekaterinburg, Russia 77.9 50.1 48.8 65.2 38.7 11.7 33.3 78.0 -8.9
Beijing, China 75.2 70.9 58.4 66.1 48.9 33.8 51.5 93.3 45.4
Panama City, Panama 74.6 35.1 53.9 57.9 64.2 12.4 35.1 65.6 -6.2
Davao, Philippines 63.8 35.6 71.6 71.9 31.8 25.9 31.1 60.0 -54.3
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 60.7 43.3 22.1 37.1 58.1 19.6 56.9 70.4 48.2
Jakarta, Indonesia 57.4 41.4 47.2 63.0 48.4 16.9 57.2 86.4 9.6
Bangkok, Thailand 57.3 49.1 51.4 82.2 49.6 19.5 50.7 72.3 -36.0
Kolkata, India 52.2 57.9 48.9 55.5 26.5 11.1 71.6 81.0 -22.8
Nairobi, Kenya 50.1 28.6 36.1 58.7 42.4 59.4 62.6 74.2 91.6
Mumbai, India 50.1 72.0 52.2 63.3 30.2 32.9 63.1 87.5 -2.6
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 35.1 81.4 30.4 62.1 42.9 8.9 44.6 75.6 -94.6
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 32.2 32.5 41.9 52.4 43.3 21.7 30.6 94.6 -28.0
Manila, Philippines 31.4 47.8 39.1 68.3 40.4 12.2 57.6 92.5 -47.7
Dhaka, Bangladesh 24.1 38.6 30.9 38.9 37.3 14.9 62.3 95.4 -10.5
Caracas, Venezuela 0.0 3.0 13.4 35.7 38.8 254.1 49.5 77.4 91.2