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Boko Haram, traffic snarls make Lagos least liveable on earth, says report
The Economist Intelligence Unit annual survey has ticked off Lagos as the least liveable city in the world after Damascus in Syria.
According to the magazine 2017 Global Liveability Report, a decade of declines in the ease of living has now stabilised, although a number of cities have suffered from the “spreading perceived threat of terrorism”.
“Continued threat from groups such as Boko Haram acts as a constraint to improving stability in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city.”
Rankings were calculated using a number of factors including crime, healthcare, climate, corruption and censorship.
Melbourne and Vienna were the most liveable cities in the world.
The five most improved cities over the past five years are Tehran, Dubai, Abidjan, Harare and Colombo; while the biggest decliners are Kiev, Damascus, Tripoli, Detroit and Moscow.
The report said among the poorly scoring cities, 12 continue to occupy the very bottom tier of liveability, where ratings fall below 50% and most aspects of living are severely restricted.
Apart from Lagos and Damascus, other least liveable cities in the world include Kiev, Douala, Harare, Karachi, Algiers, Port Moresby, Dhaka, and Tripoli.
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