Colourful Singapore
Just in today, Singapore is ranked 4th most liveable city in Asia (after Osaka, Tokyo, and Hong Kong). It also ranks first in South-east Asia. Worldwide, it’s ranked 54th. This result is from this year’s liveability survey done by the Economist Intelligence Unit (the short article from the Economist is here and the full survey can be bought for a whooping $250).
The survey takes into account 5 broad categories (with 30 different factors): stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. It then scores each city from 1 (intolerable) to 100 (ideal). Cities with rating above 80 should have few challenges to their living standards. Singapore scores 88.5.
Acknowledgment: Photo is courtesy of swisscan, licensed under Creative Commons.