The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2017 study has ranked Harare the 8th worst city to live in out of 140 cities. Some of the cities which are deemed worse than Harare are Damascus, Tripoli , Dakar and Karachi. Harare had a rating of 42.6 out of 100.
The cities were rated on 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five categories
- Stability
- Healthcare
- Culture and Environment
- Education
- Infrastructure
Each factor was rated as
acceptable
tolerable
uncomfortable
undesirebale
intolerable
The most liveable cities according to the rankings are
- Melbourne
- Vienna
- Vancouver
- Toronto
- Calgary
- Adelaide
- Perth
- Auckland
- Helsinki
- Hamburg
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