Global survey ranks Lagos third least liveable city



Lagos has been ranked third among the ten least liveable cities in the world.
This was contained in the 2018 Global Liveability Index released by The Economist Intelligence Unit and World Bank.

The report, which rated Lagos 138th of the 140 cities on earth, said it based the report on five parameters.


Lagos has been ranked third among the ten least liveable cities in the world.
This was contained in the 2018 Global Liveability Index released by The Economist Intelligence Unit and World Bank.

The report, which rated Lagos 138th of the 140 cities on earth, said it based the report on five parameters.


It cited the criteria to be political and social stability, education, culture, environment, infrastructure and access to healthcare.

In the report obtained by The Guardian yesterday, Lagos was rated 37.5 per cent and 33.3 per cent in healthcare and education.

It said Lagos recorded 53.5 per cent in culture and environment and 46.4 per cent in infrastructure.

According to the report, the only cities, which were scored lower than Lagos on the ranking, were Syria and Bangladesh, while Vienna, the Austrian capital, was ranked the most liveable city in the world

The report also noted that unavailability of adequate infrastructure and conflicts, among others were responsible for many of the lowest scores, adding that stability indicators have the highest single scores.

“Conflict will not just cause disruption in its own right, it will also damage infrastructure, overburden hospitals and undermine the availability of goods, services and recreational activities.

“This is particularly visible in the ranks of cities like Dhaka (Bangladesh, 139th), Harare (Zimbabwe, 135th), Douala (Cameroon, 133rd) and Dakar (Senegal, 131st).

“Nevertheless, the impact of stability indicators, especially those related to crime, cannot be understated for some of these cities.



“The Middle East, Africa and Asia account for the ten lowest-scoring cities in the survey where violence, whether through crime, civil insurgency, terrorism or war, has played a strong role.”

The report disclosed that the concept of liveability assessed in locations around the world, provide the best or the worst living conditions.

This, it, said stretches from benchmarking perceptions of development levels, to assigning a hardship allowance as part of expatriate relocation packages.

“The Economist Intelligence Unit’s liveability rating quantifies the challenges that might be presented to an individual’s lifestyle in any given location, and allows for direct comparison between locations.

“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 said.

It added that each factor in a city is rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. For qualitative indicators, a rating was awarded, based on the judgment of in-house analysts.

Even without a single Gun shot fired , Lagos now ranking with cities ravaged with unending civil wars in terms of livability like Damascus.

I disagree.

Lagos is overall worst in the world.

SLAP44:
I disagree.

Lagos is overall worst in the world.

Lagos is now Ranking with war torn Cities like Syria and Bangladesh

kettykin:



Lagos is now Ranking with war torn Cities like Syria and Bangladesh

And Agadez

SLAP44:


And Agadez

Even Tripoli that has been under very serious gun firein the last couple of years is now rated higher then Lagos in the Livability index.

Lagos will soon witness unprecedented levels of refugees from across afonja land fleeing the jihadists.

this is about the state of the Former capital of Nigeria that has been seriously bastardised and ibadanised by the midgetic vision and ideas of an oudated fellow

kettykin:
this is about the state of the Former capital of Nigeria that has been seriously bastardised and ibadanised by the midgetic vision and ideas of an oudated fellow

Lagos rot started with Jakunde and Tinubu took up the challenge to turn it into a 5 star sh!thole.

Lagos is about growth without development.
https://www.naijiant.com/articles/lagos-case-study-growth-without-development/

RevDesm0ndJuju:


Lagos rot started with Jakunde and Tinubu took up the challenge to turn it into a 5 star sh!thole.

The Rot under the APC Goverment is so unprecedented , some parts of Victoria Island is now breaming with filth while the roads in Lagos are now filled with port holes and pit holes , the drainage issues are something else , i really pity the real lagos indigenes . Lagos is owing more debts than some sovereign countries and might never pay back the loan .

Naijiant:
Lagos is about growth without development.
https://www.naijiant.com/articles/lagos-case-study-growth-without-development/

The Only thing growing in lagos seems to be the population and a handful of infrastructure which is not matching with population growth

kettykin:


The Rot under the APC Goverment is so unprecedented , some parts of Victoria Island is now breaming with filth while the roads in Lagos are now filled with port holes and pit holes , the drainage issues are something else , i really pity the real lagos indigenes . Lagos is owing more debts than some sovereign countries and might never pay back the loan .

I just don't understand what people see in Lagos.

I have since left and never ever going back to that cess pit.

No wonder cursed n forsaken lost jew from Biafra keep trooping their after their cursed PDP governors have looted their God given poto redmud region in a hellhole not compatible to any shithole in the entire universes.

kettykin:
Even without a single Gun shot fired , Lagos now ranking with cities ravaged with unending civil wars in terms of livability like Damascus.

Is Bangladesh a city?


Is Syria a city?

kettykin:



Lagos is now Ranking with war torn Cities like Syria and Bangladesh

How can Syria be a city?

There’s also a curious anti-urban slant in these assessments of urban qualities. How can one judge a city of just 400,000 located in one of the world’s richest countries by the same metrics as places like Beijing, Bangkok, or Tokyo—a megacity of almost 10 million souls that is ranked right behind it on the Monocle list? Celebrating the enviable living conditions in Copenhagen (number four) or Helsinki (six) may offer inspiration to those trapped in less-prosperous places, but it’s hard not to wonder why these rankings tend to tap wealthy, smaller cities when larger, less wealthy ones may be making more radical, transformative improvements in life quality.


More reading:


City rankings are thus a window onto the projected tastes of a highly specific elite—even if the cities that suit this elite would also suit other people well enough, should they manage to get there. 



https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/06/best-cities-to-live-list-monocle-ranking-zurich-vienna/592492/

Nemesis909:


How can Syria be a city?

The quote compared Lagos Livability with what is obtainable with war torn Countries ,
The Same way Some people some few months ago were comparing the economy of Lagos to that of Some African Countries like Cameroon , Ghana, Ivory Coast , Kenya and Rwanda .
my apologies if the title of the report is offensive, but the message seems clear enough.

Give it to Vienna anytime,

That city is not part of this world.

No wonder it houses lots of world/un power houses.


As per Lagos, even if I was giving a free house in lekki, I jump and pass. That city produces the highest number of mentally unstable people in this world.
U don't have to be mad and roaming the street b4 u are termed mentally unstable

Check them out on nairaland.
Even with the money, they are naturally frustrated and angry.
That,which made them human is no longer there.
They reason like animals most of the time
Screaming at every little opportunity.
Lagos effect. It's not their fault.
Glorified slum.

kettykin:


The Rot under the APC Goverment is so unprecedented , some parts of Victoria Island is now breaming with filth while the roads in Lagos are now filled with port holes and pit holes , the drainage issues are something else , i really pity the real lagos indigenes . Lagos is owing more debts than some sovereign countries and might never pay back the loan .

Chukwudi no be you I see for road along mile 2 selling gala and pure water?

Lagos no matter how bad it looks still remains the tourist destination of people in the potopoto region.

Your ladies get wet just by the mention of bringing them to Lagos, infact Lagos is like America to your brethren.

YorubaHero12:

Chukwudi no be you I see for road along mile 2 selling gala and pure water?

Lagos no matter how bad it looks still remains the tourist destination of people in the potopoto region.

Your ladies get wet just by the mention of bringing them to Lagos, infact Lagos is like America to your brethren.

ok

Tinubu's Lagos

kettykin:



Lagos is now Ranking with war torn Cities like Syria and Bangladesh

So Syria and Bangladesh are cities?

Well,I think Lagos' major problem is over population.

It seems the whole country is now affected