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Top 5 worst city to live in the world, Pakistani economic capital making in the list

Top 5 worst city to live in the world, Karachi and Dhaka is in the list


Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, in the Global Liveability Index 2019 published on Wednesday, reports said that Pakistani economic capital Karachi is one of the 10 worst to live in. 

This year, Karachi has been ranked 136th on the list - the fifth least liveable city in the world, only managing to fare better than Damascus in Syria, Lagos in Nigeria, Dhaka in Bangladesh and Tripoli in Libya.

Other countries included in the list of the 10 least liveable cities include Caracas in Venezuela, Algiers in Algeria, Douala in Cameroon, Harare in Zimbabwe and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. 


The Global Liveability Index looks at digital, infrastructure, health and personal security before including a country in the ranking list. Karachi was ranked 52nd in digital security, 59th in health security, 55th in infrastructure security and 58th in personal security.

Karachi was also one of the most unsafe city in world. It was ranked 6th back in 2013 but they have managed well to ho past 50.


Vienna is the best city to live dethroning Melbourne  for the first time in last 8 years.

Meanwhile, Austrian capital Vienna retained its ranking as the world`s most liveable city. Vienna once again came ahead of Australia`s Melbourne, which had held the top ranking for seven years until losing it to Vienna in 2018.



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