100 Best places to live in the World
We ranked 9294 cities in 197 countries by quality & cost of living (13 factors assessed) to find the 100 best places in the world to live and work for singles and families.
7 indicators are country-specific:
- Human Freedom Index (The Cato Institute)
- Gross Domestic Product per capita (The World Bank)
- GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (The World Bank)
- Life expectancy (The World Bank)
- Homicide rate (WHO, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
- Mortality caused by road traffic injury (The World Bank)
- Corruption Perceptions Index (transparency.org)
6 indicators are city-specific:
- Average salary (our data)
- Average salary divided by cost of living (our data)
- Cost of living (our data)
- Annual average air quality (iqair.com)
- Distance adjusted airports score (ourairports.com)
- Distance adjusted universities score (edurank.org)
The last point reflects observation that good cities tend to have good universities.
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