{"id":12386,"date":"2023-06-23T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2025-03-30T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:36:16","slug":"global-liveability-index-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-liveability-index-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Liveability Index 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Global Liveability Index 2023:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The index <strong>quantifies the challenges presented<\/strong> to an individual\u2019s lifestyle in 173 cities worldwide.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was given considering five metrics namely; <strong>healthcare, culture, environment, education, and stability.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This ranking offers insights into the cities that excel in providing an exceptional quality of life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key highlights of the report<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top cities to live:<\/strong>\u00a0 Vienna (Austria), Copenhagen (Denmark), Melbourne and Sydney (Australia)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bottom 3 Liveable cities:<\/strong> Algiers (Algeria), Tripoli (Libya) and Damascus (Syria)<\/li>\n<li>From Asia, Japan\u2019s Osaka was ranked number 10 in the rankings.<\/li>\n<li>The index rose last year to reach a 15-year high as the world recovered from the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The average index score is now 76.2 out of 100, up from 73.2 a year ago.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Despite overall growth in the index score, <strong>stability saw a marginal decline.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Those in <strong>Western Europe<\/strong> in particular, have slipped in rankings <strong>due to increased instances of workers\u2019 strikes failing t<\/strong>o \u201cmatch gains\u201d made by cities in Asia and the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li>The cities which are plagued by ongoing civil unrest and military conflicts, amongst other issues, remained at the bottom of the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Culture?<\/h3>\n<p>Culture encompasses the shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a particular group or society. It is a complex and dynamic system that shapes the way people think, behave, and interact within a community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/lifestyle\/destination-of-the-week\/most-livable-cities-in-the-world-2023-8679205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>These are the world\u2019s most liveable cities for 2023<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Liveability Index 2023 quantifies the challenges presented to an individual\u2019s lifestyle in 173 cities worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}