Lagos only ranked better than Algiers (171), Tripoli (172) and Damascus (173).
The report, however, said even at the bottom of the rankings, cities such as Lagos (Nigeria) and Algiers (Algeria) have gained ground, with some improvements in their healthcare and education systems.
“Both are in countries that are energy exporters and have to some extent benefited from higher global oil and gas prices.
“Although, corruption continues to be an issue, some additional public funding has been made available for
infrastructure and public services, which have also benefited from the decline in covid cases,” it said.
However, the report stated that war-ravaged Damascus (Syria), the lowest-ranked city in the survey, has seen no improvement in its liveability scores despite the regional political comeback of its president, Bashar al-Assad.
“Contrary to these improvements, the war in Ukraine and the resulting economic and political disruption are affecting liveability in many European cities.
“Unsurprisingly, this is most noticeable in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, which re-joins the survey this year (we were forced to exclude it following Russia’s invasion in 2022).
“However, the city’s score has fallen by 5.9 percentage points since 2021 owing to the damage the war has done to its stability, infrastructure and general liveability. It has now become one of the bottom ten cities in our liveability index,” the report said.
In the report, frequent winner Vienna retains its position as the world’s most liveable city in the 2023 survey.
The Austrian capital slipped down the rankings in 2021, when its famous museums and restaurants faced restrictions to contain the pandemic, but this was a rare slip-up for a city that has now ranked top in eight of the past ten six-monthly surveys.
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