Lagos Ranked 3rd Worst City To Live In

Nigeria’s commercial centre, Lagos, has been named the third worst city to live in according to reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The reports analyzed stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure in 140 different cities of the world and globally it was seen to have improved, increasing from 74.8 per cent last year to 75.7 per cent in 2018.

In the EIU’s 2018 ranking of the world’s most livable cities, Lagos overtook Syria and Bangladesh as it was ranked 138.

Japan’s Osaka and Tokyo were seen to move up into the top ten, coming in third and seventh place respectively in the ranking published on Monday.

In the same manner, Vienna, the Austrian capital, took the title from Melbourne, as world’s most livable city after a seven-year reign.

“Every city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure,” the report read.

“Each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. For qualitative indicators, a rating is awarded based on the judgment of in-house analysts and in-city contributors.”

It will be recalled that in 2017, Lagos was ranked the second worst city to live in after Damascus.

Other countries that were ranked amongst the worst categories are Dakar in Senegal; Algiers in Algeria; Douala in Cameroon; Tripoli in Libya and Harare in Zimbabwe, which came 131st, 132nd, 133rd, 134th and 135th, respectively.