{"id":3987,"date":"2019-09-06T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:38:08","slug":"these-are-asias-least-liveable-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/en\/these-are-asias-least-liveable-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"These are Asia\u2019s least liveable cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two populous hubs in the Indian subcontinent represent the region\u2019s worst in annual EIU ranking<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3988\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1161331861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1161331861.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1161331861-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_1161331861-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drone shot of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Lumenite\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cities in Bangladesh and Pakistan are the least liveable in Asia, according to the newest annual Global Liveability Index by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).<\/p>\n<p>With a rating of just 39.2, Dhaka sits just two spots below war-torn Damascus as the world\u2019s least liveable urban centre. The Bangladeshi capital, home to 18.2 million people in its metropolitan area, ranks 138th on the 140-city index.<\/p>\n<p>Ranking fifth-least liveable on earth is Karachi, assigned a score of 40.9. Like Damascus, and along with Nigeria\u2019s Lagos, Karachi scored 20 in the metric of stability\u2014the lowest among the bottom 10 cities in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Karachi has around 15 million inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/cambodias-farewell-to-everything-but-arms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>More: Cambodia\u2019s farewell to Everything But Arms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dhaka fared a little better in the stability metric with a score of 55. However, the densely populated city scored just 26.8 in the infrastructure metric: the lowest among the 10 least liveable cities.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangladeshi city also left a lot to be desired in the culture and environment metric. \u201cA slew of cities in emerging markets that are among the most exposed to the effects of climate change have seen their scores downgraded. These include New Delhi in India, which suffers from appalling air quality, Cairo in Egypt (where air quality is also a major issue) and Dhaka in Bangladesh,\u201d EIU researchers noted.<\/p>\n<p>Cities on the EIU ranking are judged according to the categories of stability, infrastructure, culture and environment, healthcare, and education.<\/p>\n<p>Tripoli, Port Moresby, Harare, Douala, Algiers and Caracas round out the 10 least liveable cities. On the other end of the ranking,\u00a0Vienna took the top spot for the second consecutive year, with Osaka ranking most liveable in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubs in the Indian subcontinent represent region\u2019s worst in EIU ranking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[481,482],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eiu","tag-liveability","news_country-asia","news_author-property-report"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>These are Asia\u2019s least liveable cities | Asia Property Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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