1 best place to live in the world: Vienna, Austria. Vienna, Austria, ranked first as the best place to live in the world.
For the third time in five years, Vienna has topped the list of most livable cities.
Top 10 Countries in Which to Live (World Happiness Report 2022): Finland — 7.821. Denmark — 7.636. Iceland — 7.557.
For the third time in the past five years, Vienna captured the first spot in the 2022 Global Liveability Index, the annual report published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Melbourne has been named Australia's most liveable city and the 10th in the world in the Global Liveability Index 2022 . Released by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the title is awarded to the city with the highest score for stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Monocle's Quality of Life Survey
The 2022 Monocle Survey determined the world's most livable city was Copenhagen, followed by Zurich, Lisbon and Helsinki.
The capital of Estonia, Tallinn, is known as the cleanest city in the world. It has 430,000 people, and it's one of the most livable cities in Europe. The capital's high level of education means that its streets are spotless, and almost every household recycles their waste paper to reduce landfill levels.
This famous capital city in Thailand ranks as the top-visited city in the world. Bangkok welcomed 22 million visitors in 2021! Imagine 22 million people flocking to one city, crazy!
Melbourne is considered by some to be the best city to live in Australia, and has even been ranked as the world's most livable city more than once. It's home to a thriving live music scene, late-night bars and laneways dotted with cafés and coffee shops.
1. Melbourne. The Global Liveability Index 2022 has ranked Melbourne as the 10th most liveable city in the world and top of the most liveable cities in Australia.
1 in the World. Quality of life factors as most important for rankings.
The safest town in the U.S. is Yorktown Town, New York, a suburb of New York City. Yorktown also has the lowest violent crime rate per capita among small cities and towns. Yorktown was previously the ninth safest small city. Small cities and towns are safer than big cities.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the smallest Pacific nation is the world's least visited country. Nauru is just 21 square kilometres, taking just 30 minutes to drive around the entire kidney-bean shaped island, or it can be walked in less than a day.
But now, for the second year running, Paris has held onto the top spot in the Top 100 City Destinations Index 2022, while eight out of the top 10 cities are its European neighbors.
Melbourne has clean air quality and doesn't suffer from high levels of air pollution that are common to other major cities around the world. Skies are clear on most days in Melbourne (apart from the odd cloud).
Finland ranks first in the world for Environmental Health (99.3) and Air Quality (98.8), as well as achieving perfect 100s for Sanitation & Drinking Water and Heavy Metals Exposure.
It's often called our superpower, and it's envied the world over. Australians live in a safe and stable country with a friendly and relaxed culture that makes it easy to achieve a work–life balance.