Quality of Life Index by City 2016

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Canberra, Australia 241.6 168.7 72.0 83.3 76.2 6.0 18.1 10.5 84.1
Adelaide, Australia 215.5 163.1 59.6 66.6 77.9 5.2 26.7 26.1 90.6
Zurich, Switzerland 213.1 184.9 80.2 70.8 131.0 10.6 31.1 12.4 62.6
Edinburgh, United Kingdom 211.2 131.3 71.4 77.7 74.9 6.8 22.8 15.6 71.0
Munich, Germany 210.9 153.5 84.3 83.6 71.2 10.8 25.7 17.8 47.4
Melbourne, Australia 210.7 153.2 64.2 77.6 75.3 8.5 35.7 25.2 89.1
Wellington, New Zealand 209.6 118.0 68.9 66.0 80.2 6.1 26.5 10.7 88.1
Victoria, Canada 208.7 131.4 63.5 72.9 68.6 5.7 30.2 13.4 77.2
Brisbane, Australia 203.7 140.7 63.9 79.5 76.5 7.7 42.6 21.3 84.3
Geneva, Switzerland 203.6 181.0 64.5 68.9 129.1 10.0 22.0 27.9 73.5
Sacramento, CA, United States 199.9 136.4 57.1 73.8 78.4 3.8 20.0 42.3 90.1
Trondheim, Norway 199.3 113.7 79.8 81.4 108.0 7.9 18.9 11.0 55.4
Seattle, WA, United States 196.1 147.5 59.5 73.0 83.2 5.9 35.4 26.4 71.9
Vienna, Austria 196.0 119.8 72.0 78.8 65.9 16.7 26.3 21.2 75.4
Copenhagen, Denmark 194.1 126.1 73.2 77.3 89.3 7.7 28.0 27.2 67.7
Vancouver, Canada 193.6 121.7 61.1 70.4 65.0 11.3 40.0 22.6 91.3
San Diego, CA, United States 191.9 123.2 62.2 73.3 76.2 6.9 34.8 40.1 97.0
Perth, Australia 190.7 133.2 52.5 70.0 85.1 8.6 33.7 30.2 91.4
Minneapolis, MN, United States 190.5 142.3 57.3 75.7 81.1 3.1 23.8 25.2 45.4
Ottawa, Canada 190.0 147.3 77.3 72.2 63.7 5.9 42.2 20.1 33.2
Hamilton, Canada 189.5 161.5 55.3 78.2 56.0 5.2 40.9 43.7 63.8
Boston, MA, United States 189.0 124.5 60.1 79.0 84.7 7.6 34.7 24.9 72.1
Sydney, Australia 188.3 136.6 56.8 71.7 80.9 11.6 41.4 29.0 88.8
Cape Town, South Africa 187.8 126.9 28.0 73.6 34.2 4.5 42.7 32.8 96.2
Reykjavik, Iceland 186.6 97.1 74.6 76.3 97.0 5.7 19.0 15.5 49.7
Hamburg, Germany 186.3 152.0 51.4 75.5 72.2 8.7 32.9 31.1 59.8
Monterrey, Mexico 185.7 167.4 48.6 56.6 39.1 2.8 27.5 55.1 65.9
Auckland, New Zealand 184.1 118.8 56.9 74.8 80.4 9.9 41.5 30.6 90.4
Calgary, Canada 183.3 162.5 67.6 66.7 70.6 5.1 37.1 31.0 32.5
Denver, CO, United States 182.5 127.5 65.7 83.5 78.2 4.8 41.7 33.3 57.6
Austin, TX, United States 181.7 139.2 58.8 75.6 70.2 5.4 34.8 46.4 68.3
Amsterdam, Netherlands 181.5 122.0 63.9 67.4 76.3 8.8 29.5 38.9 77.0
Portland, OR, United States 181.4 122.0 52.5 55.9 80.0 4.7 30.5 21.6 68.7
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 181.4 184.1 80.3 76.1 50.1 2.3 41.8 68.4 31.7
Stockholm, Sweden 180.5 130.3 57.0 71.1 83.5 14.6 39.9 11.4 60.6
Helsinki, Finland 180.2 129.8 68.7 75.4 79.6 10.2 31.0 21.4 39.4
Bursa, Turkey 179.4 80.7 73.2 78.8 43.6 3.9 40.0 25.7 57.5
Toronto, Canada 177.7 139.0 66.4 69.0 65.9 9.8 43.7 44.6 71.6
Seoul, South Korea 177.5 116.9 85.7 81.5 78.3 16.6 31.4 35.4 53.7
Berlin, Germany 177.4 122.7 61.5 76.0 66.3 8.6 33.5 38.0 62.3
Phoenix, AZ, United States 176.3 199.4 40.9 66.5 70.8 2.1 30.0 67.8 51.8
Thessaloniki, Greece 176.2 82.7 68.9 75.8 52.0 6.1 22.8 57.9 89.8
Gdansk, Poland 176.1 81.9 72.5 64.4 39.3 10.9 26.1 32.7 69.8
Lisbon, Portugal 175.4 76.2 65.2 68.6 50.9 12.1 35.8 34.4 96.1
Tallinn, Estonia 174.6 78.8 73.8 67.4 50.5 11.4 20.3 17.0 44.4
Brno, Czech Republic 172.4 93.7 70.1 72.0 41.7 9.7 26.3 43.3 62.1
Porto, Portugal 171.2 80.3 52.4 72.9 49.3 7.7 31.0 42.5 90.2
Edmonton, Canada 170.5 128.6 59.8 74.8 70.8 5.4 38.0 28.5 33.6
Ljubljana, Slovenia 169.9 91.6 71.9 58.4 53.0 10.6 21.9 33.0 56.1
Montreal, Canada 169.6 130.7 62.0 60.6 61.7 6.5 43.8 35.8 53.6
Atlanta, GA, United States 168.6 139.4 36.0 71.2 75.7 3.4 36.4 55.1 79.7
Pretoria, South Africa 168.4 172.7 19.2 62.9 34.9 1.8 48.5 75.3 95.6
Madrid, Spain 167.7 101.8 68.3 76.2 60.8 11.2 34.6 61.4 88.0
Cluj-Napoca, Romania 166.6 70.3 78.6 62.3 34.7 11.0 32.7 33.2 61.6
Timisoara, Romania 166.1 67.5 76.8 58.8 33.2 10.7 16.9 51.9 75.2
Tokyo, Japan 166.0 113.5 79.7 77.7 85.1 26.0 48.5 34.9 80.3
San Francisco, CA, United States 164.4 105.8 52.1 72.6 103.4 13.7 35.1 44.2 96.8
Prague, Czech Republic 163.9 90.6 68.9 71.7 43.1 12.8 37.5 42.1 65.6
Regina, Canada 163.2 148.4 54.5 63.3 67.2 3.7 30.6 35.8 15.2
Winnipeg, Canada 163.1 133.1 48.5 71.0 63.6 4.4 29.4 36.7 26.9
Oslo, Norway 162.8 126.3 62.0 70.0 96.0 9.4 38.8 25.1 36.1
Izmir, Turkey 162.5 66.7 69.2 84.0 43.5 6.5 37.7 65.5 90.6
Taipei, Taiwan 162.1 126.1 80.3 86.3 56.7 26.0 26.4 43.4 32.9
Dublin, Ireland 160.2 120.2 45.6 48.2 80.3 9.9 35.7 32.7 71.4
Zagreb, Croatia 159.9 70.9 68.5 63.7 49.0 12.3 33.7 37.6 71.6
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 159.2 158.2 83.3 56.7 61.5 5.1 28.9 55.2 0.3
Barcelona, Spain 159.0 111.1 58.2 70.8 62.9 9.8 35.6 71.0 89.3
Los Angeles, CA, United States 157.8 127.1 45.8 65.4 77.8 9.0 36.7 70.8 96.1
Manchester, United Kingdom 157.2 99.0 47.6 73.2 84.8 7.6 38.8 43.6 75.2
Bratislava, Slovakia 156.1 72.0 66.0 62.0 49.8 12.5 28.1 44.2 70.9
Chicago, IL, United States 155.9 127.7 32.7 63.8 85.1 4.3 40.2 39.3 61.0
Philadelphia, PA, United States 155.8 108.2 35.7 66.8 83.6 4.9 28.3 51.6 76.2
Novi Sad, Serbia 154.5 56.1 50.1 49.5 33.2 13.1 18.7 38.7 84.2
Warsaw, Poland 153.1 85.4 73.7 61.6 40.8 12.4 36.6 53.2 63.4
Banja Luka, Bosnia And Herzegovina 152.4 60.4 69.4 50.1 34.6 12.1 24.4 51.4 78.0
Brussels, Belgium 152.1 114.8 45.5 76.5 79.1 7.5 31.0 70.5 77.3
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel 151.6 92.2 68.6 76.4 81.1 18.9 42.3 51.5 80.9
Houston, TX, United States 149.9 138.5 40.7 66.8 75.2 3.3 38.0 69.7 62.6
Miami, FL, United States 149.9 132.1 39.3 60.2 80.0 6.0 45.5 39.1 48.2
Durban, South Africa 148.9 120.0 20.1 43.2 33.3 3.0 38.7 53.6 76.8
Johannesburg, South Africa 148.5 130.0 16.6 60.3 37.6 3.0 44.8 73.7 92.2
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 143.8 129.7 77.2 59.7 70.1 5.6 32.7 58.1 8.4
Brasilia, Brazil 143.2 68.3 34.7 41.4 40.7 14.8 30.8 32.7 84.1
Wroclaw, Poland 142.0 80.1 65.9 56.7 38.8 10.2 44.7 56.6 64.6
Vilnius, Lithuania 141.4 62.2 62.0 69.2 46.7 13.2 29.9 25.4 24.4
Paris, France 141.1 112.5 45.9 74.8 81.6 18.0 37.0 64.7 78.5
Turin, Italy 140.5 99.6 40.5 68.5 68.1 12.3 27.7 78.8 90.6
Krakow (Cracow), Poland 139.7 81.0 64.3 65.7 38.5 12.3 31.7 69.7 62.3
Curitiba, Brazil 139.5 48.8 34.8 49.3 38.3 14.2 35.4 37.4 94.5
Hyderabad, India 138.1 94.6 57.3 73.4 24.1 6.7 42.5 83.7 61.6
Milan, Italy 138.1 93.3 50.2 74.9 73.9 17.0 39.2 63.1 78.1
Bangalore, India 138.0 113.9 50.0 58.4 25.9 8.2 48.9 83.5 75.2
Athens, Greece 138.0 64.7 51.3 52.7 56.0 9.7 35.5 62.7 91.7
Sofia, Bulgaria 137.6 66.0 50.9 53.1 37.6 8.9 31.4 58.3 71.0
Ankara, Turkey 137.2 81.9 53.8 66.9 44.0 6.2 38.2 66.5 58.4
Budapest, Hungary 136.9 60.6 58.9 51.8 42.6 10.1 34.4 52.7 66.9
Pune, India 135.9 109.1 53.4 68.9 26.6 10.2 49.5 81.5 65.1
Doha, Qatar 135.7 144.0 77.2 70.2 70.0 7.2 33.6 82.8 9.3
Santiago, Chile 135.2 68.8 53.1 62.3 46.1 9.5 35.0 78.1 88.9
Buenos Aires, Argentina 132.7 73.8 37.8 76.4 67.8 12.8 46.5 63.7 91.7
Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina 131.8 58.8 49.0 63.1 36.0 12.7 23.3 69.5 72.7
Istanbul, Turkey 130.5 60.2 53.6 71.8 48.7 11.7 59.3 63.8 89.1
Belgrade, Serbia 129.8 47.6 59.4 57.2 36.5 20.2 31.0 61.3 84.2
London, United Kingdom 128.0 94.9 51.6 73.8 94.8 33.5 45.9 54.3 92.6
Tbilisi, Georgia 126.2 30.8 77.8 56.8 29.6 15.7 34.7 74.6 82.2
Montevideo, Uruguay 124.8 52.0 42.4 65.5 57.0 13.9 52.3 56.7 91.9
Bucharest, Romania 123.7 60.0 69.7 52.5 37.4 11.5 38.9 72.4 61.0
Minsk, Belarus 123.3 40.1 75.3 60.0 40.5 22.1 31.1 39.7 35.6
New York, NY, United States 121.6 100.0 49.1 57.3 100.0 21.6 43.4 61.4 76.7
Almaty, Kazakhstan 119.9 61.8 50.3 66.4 31.3 13.1 24.3 72.1 46.0
Rome, Italy 119.7 89.5 44.1 55.3 70.0 20.2 46.4 72.8 91.4
Amman, Jordan 119.5 50.3 50.7 68.5 55.1 9.5 51.3 77.9 89.3
Skopje, North Macedonia 113.6 46.0 57.7 64.2 34.8 16.0 44.1 80.6 78.8
Chisinau, Moldova 110.8 32.1 53.4 52.6 25.9 18.7 35.3 63.2 67.7
Mexico City, Mexico 109.4 64.8 34.0 64.6 39.2 10.8 47.1 84.4 78.4
Porto Alegre, Brazil 109.0 59.0 24.0 51.7 41.6 13.9 40.2 65.2 77.0
Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) 108.3 102.3 79.2 74.3 81.5 37.6 46.4 67.2 39.9
Beirut, Lebanon 106.0 65.4 48.9 71.9 66.4 15.1 39.6 93.0 73.4
Chennai, India 104.5 100.6 54.9 70.3 24.9 12.4 36.4 76.6 -9.5
Bogota, Colombia 100.8 41.4 40.7 70.9 32.4 20.0 47.4 74.8 71.2
Lima, Peru 99.6 53.7 29.9 65.4 41.7 14.2 39.5 88.6 76.7
Shanghai, China 97.6 83.1 68.2 58.0 60.5 30.2 49.5 86.5 63.7
Singapore, Singapore 93.1 110.5 84.2 69.1 83.7 23.2 43.4 38.8 -66.6
Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine 90.6 33.8 58.6 55.3 29.8 26.5 35.7 77.7 55.5
Saint Petersburg, Russia 89.9 57.6 55.2 59.8 42.3 15.4 52.0 70.0 23.7
Tehran, Iran 87.2 47.1 42.9 48.2 44.3 15.6 53.8 87.5 74.6
Moscow, Russia 84.6 64.5 53.6 55.8 44.3 23.4 56.5 63.5 25.3
Beijing, China 84.4 85.7 63.4 55.6 51.4 33.5 46.8 89.1 45.4
Sao Paulo, Brazil 84.0 45.1 24.1 53.4 42.9 20.7 46.2 90.2 90.1
Cairo, Egypt 82.4 39.6 41.7 46.4 37.7 10.4 53.5 99.1 75.6
Delhi, India 77.7 85.3 39.7 64.3 28.7 18.2 53.4 94.1 22.7
Karachi, Pakistan 75.1 50.8 30.3 55.2 28.6 11.1 40.6 88.6 27.5
Davao, Philippines 72.9 42.1 73.3 71.9 34.6 26.6 28.9 67.2 -33.3
Colombo, Sri Lanka 71.3 27.0 52.1 79.4 38.1 21.1 52.9 61.6 -2.2
Kolkata, India 62.9 80.6 51.3 50.5 24.8 10.1 71.5 81.6 -19.9
Jakarta, Indonesia 59.4 37.5 49.6 58.2 43.9 22.6 48.8 82.9 14.8
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 55.9 44.6 22.8 39.0 45.0 24.8 57.4 79.1 52.5
Mumbai, India 54.6 83.2 49.0 61.5 28.9 35.3 68.8 89.6 14.8
Bangkok, Thailand 51.5 50.3 54.7 82.3 48.7 22.3 50.7 73.3 -45.4
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 43.2 96.6 26.8 60.0 42.3 9.6 46.3 74.9 -83.3
Manila, Philippines 41.1 46.5 50.8 63.9 41.5 15.8 60.6 96.1 -20.0
Dhaka, Bangladesh 29.8 43.2 29.6 37.5 38.6 11.6 63.9 91.1 -10.5
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 8.9 25.0 41.4 43.9 42.5 31.7 33.2 94.0 -39.8