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The Most Liveable Cities in 2026: A Look at the Latest EIU Index
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LAST EDITED BY SABA MALAIKA ON DECEMBER 24, 2025.
LAST EDITED BY SABA MALAIKA ON DECEMBER 24, 2025.
GUIDES LAST EDITED BY SABA MALAIKA ON DECEMBER 24, 2025.
Ever wondered what the best city to live in is? The global liveability index score can make it easier for you to decide. This is a composite score that the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) calculates after accounting for the following five different factors of liveability.
Each year, select cities from across the world are analyzed based on the above parameters to identify the most and the least liveable places. In 2022, the EIU ranked a total of 173 cities, of which the following emerged as the top most liveable options.
The following cities made up the bottom of the list in terms of overall liveability.
Yes, indeed. Although European cities have taken up most of the top spots on the list, some cities from India did make it to the list in 2022. Typically, in the previous few years, Delhi and Mumbai were the only two Indian cities featured on the list. In 2022, however, three other Indian cities also found a spot on the global liveability index comparison list.
Check out these cities and their ranking below.
However, all things considered, the concept of liveability can be highly subjective. The EIU’s rankings are just one of the many benchmarks and comparisons used to judge the liveability of a city.
The Indian government itself has its own scoreboard created using the Ease of Living Index, which is calculated for cities in two categories — those with a population of more than one million and those with a population of less than one million. In 2020, Bengaluru emerged as the top city in the million+ category, while Shimla was the top performer in the less-than-one-million segment.
The bottom line is that you may love the city you live in even if it hasn’t found a place on the list of the top most liveable cities in the world. But if you’re still on the lookout for a nice place to settle down after you retire, the global liveability index is one of the metrics that can help you decide.
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As of the most recent Global Liveability Index (2024–2025), Vienna continues to be ranked as the most liveable city in the world. The ranking is published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and evaluates cities across key parameters such as stability, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and culture & environment.
The 5 factors of liveability, which the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) uses to compute the global liveability index, are stability, education, healthcare, infrastructure and culture & environment.
