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Top 25 Cities with the Lowest Quality of Life in 2026

1. 🇳🇬 Lagos, Nigeria
2. 🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines
3. 🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka
4. 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh
5. 🇮🇷 Tehran, Iran
6. 🇵🇭 Cebu, Philippines
7. 🇳🇵 Kathmandu, Nepal
8. 🇮🇩 Jakarta, Indonesia
9. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
10. 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt
11. 🇻🇪 Caracas, Venezuela
12. 🇵🇰 Karachi, Pakistan
13. 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14. 🇮🇳 Mumbai, India
15. 🇱🇧 Beirut, Lebanon
16. 🇪🇬 Alexandria, Egypt
17. 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru
18. 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
19. 🇮🇳 Delhi, India
20. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, Vietnam
21. 🇧🇷 Recife, Brazil
22. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
23. 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
24. 🇲🇦 Casablanca, Morocco
25. 🇰🇪 Nairobi, Kenya

Note: Quality of Life Index reflects overall well-being using key factors like Safety, Health Care, Cost of Living, Climate, and More.

Source: Numbeo Quality of Life Index 2026


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Giant of Africa indeed

Useless country with no future, Spit

Morbeta11:
https://x.com/i/status/2025599216278761722

Once you guys loose an election the next thing is to start scouting online for negative news or statistics about nigeria , I have been expecting threads like this since last night after the shelacking you guys received at the hands of wike and apc .

I hope they know Anambra wasn't considered as a city here.

We have seen this severally. Do you guys celebrate mediocrity?

I was in lekki for a few months believe u me the air quality was the poorest I have experienced

Not even port Harcourt when soot was a think was this bad

The smell? Funny thing the estate has lots of trees, but yet the smell was crazy

Hankim:
Useless country with no future, Spit

Just...let out the pain.

2026 that is just starting

We know immediately your groundnut politics failed in Abuja, Obidients will start looking for fake statistics to massage their battered ego.

benardtotti:
Once you guys loose an election the next thing is to start scouting online for negative news or statistics about nigeria , I have been expecting threads like this since last night after the shelacking you guys received at the hands of wike and apc .

a rigged election actually calls for such statistics. The rigger prides himself as the builder of Lagos but our best is among worlds worse. We are undeniably world's poverty capital but APC managed to rig themselves back in and now are going for another major rigging in 2027.

How can your best be among world's worse? How?

Eko for show

If 44 fit push portable story to fp. Make e push this one too make people learn

So all those people wey dey form big boys and big girls for Island na low quality life una dey live?

Lagos, a country in Nigeria.

I thought Tinubu has transformed lagos 😀😀😀

This is not true and can never be thru. Lagos is better than some places listed

I laugh..

No city on earth is as interesting to live as Lagos

Tinubu development in progress. Lagos that is the Dubai of some people smh

To those that always make comparisons of ghetto sides of the US to Lagos all in a bid to support useless leadership. Can you see no US ghetto made the list?

No surprise there
The place is a complete shambles
🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️

soothers always embarrass us

Same Lagos that Gbola Tinumboo the political fraudster built?

lordm:
I hope they know Anambra wasn't considered as a city here.

Anambra is not a city. It is a state.

No Anambra city was ever the federal capital of Nigeria, unlike Lagos since 1914, which remained commercial capital after the FCT was moved to Abuja.

Moreover, Anambra does not have the population that generates IGR from tax burden on the people like Lagos, with its trillions annual budget that does not translate to basic services and utilities. This is quite unlike the situation 46 years ago under progressive UPN government.

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

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eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Shame... we always carry first as long as it has to do with unfavourable statistics...this is lagos tinubu built from the ocean

PulaPower:
I laugh..

No city on earth is as interesting to live as Lagos

Mpama. Keep deceiving yourself.

Those who claimed Tinubu transformed Lagos should also see how their messiah left the legacy of low quality of life in Lagos. Abi una wan deny this record? No be me talk oh - according to Falz de bad guy.

What is your source?
IPOB

Why do you people always look for news against lagos? Well at leat it's still a city while una na village. That can never be mentioned. Abegi.......

Sheuns:
To those that always make comparisons of ghetto sides of the US to Lagos all in a bid to support useless leadership.

Can you see no US ghetto made the list?

It's quite interesting that city boy CLAIMS to have lived in Chicago as confirmed by his documentary filmmaker, Reno.

The question is whether Chicago residents drink shitty, smelling water from boreholes despite 100 times increase in budget over 27 years as is the case with Lagos state.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

What is Rio de Janeiro doing on the list? That city is almost like Miami in Florida.

Nigeria never disappoints when it comes to Negative ranking.