2010 Quality of Living global city rankings – Mercer survey

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Eco-City Ranking* 2010

Base City: New York, USA (=100)

Rankings City Country Eco-City Index

1 Calgary Canada 145.7
2 Honolulu United States 145.1
3 Ottawa Canada 139.9
3 Helsinki Finland 139.9
5 Wellington New Zealand 138.9
6 Minneapolis United States 137.8
7 Adelaide Australia 137.5
8 Copenhagen Denmark 137.4
9 Kobe Japan 135.6
9 Oslo Norway 135.6
9 Stockholm Sweden 135.6
12 Perth Australia 135.3
13 Montreal Canada 133.6
13 Vancouver Canada 133.6
13 Nurnberg Germany 133.6
13 Auckland New Zealand 133.6
13 Bern Switzerland 133.6
13 Pittsburgh United States 133.6
19 Zurich Switzerland 133.5
19 Aberdeen United Kingdom 133.5
21 Canberra Australia 133.3
22 Singapore Singapore 132.4
23 Brisbane Australia 131.6
23 Washington United States 131.6
25 Melbourne Australia 131.5
25 Geneva Switzerland 131.5
25 Boston United States 131.5
28 Dusseldorf Germany 130.7
28 Munich Germany 130.7
30 Cape Town South Africa 129.4
30 Belfast United Kingdom 129.4
32 Lyon France 129.3
33 Dublin Ireland 128.9
34 Hamburg Germany 128.8
34 Stuttgart Germany 128.8
34 Philadelphia United States 128.8
37 Yokohama Japan 128.7
38 Victoria Seychelles 128.5
39 Toronto Canada 127.1
39 Amsterdam Netherlands 127.1
41 Brussels Belgium 126.8
41 Leipzig Germany 126.8
43 St. Louis United States 126.6
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44 Vienna Austria 126.2

44 Luxembourg Luxembourg 126.2
46 Sydney Australia 125
47 Glasgow United Kingdom 124.7
48 Muscat Oman 124.2
49 Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe 123.8
50 Frankfurt Germany 123.1
50 Nagoya Japan 123.1
50 Osaka Japan 123.1
53 Berlin Germany 122.8
54 Johannesburg South Africa 122.4
55 Miami United States 121.3
55 Seattle United States 121.3
57 Barcelona Spain 121
57 Madrid Spain 121
59 Tokyo Japan 120.8
60 San Francisco United States 119.5
61 Detroit United States 119.3
62 Noumea New Caledonia 118.7
63 London United Kingdom 117.6
64 Birmingham United Kingdom 117.4
United Arab
65 Abu Dhabi Emirates 116.6
United Arab
65 Dubai Emirates 116.6
67 Paris France 115.4
68 Prague Czech Republic 114.9
69 San Juan Puerto Rico 114.5
70 Montevideo Uruguay 113.6
71 Panama City Panama 111.8
72 Port Louis Mauritius 111.7
73 Windhoek Namibia 111
74 Lisbon Portugal 110.7
75 Budapest Hungary 109.8
76 Tallinn Estonia 109.6
77 Chicago United States 109.4
78 Rome Italy 108.8
79 Limassol Cyprus 108.5
80 Manama Bahrain 108.4
81 Tel Aviv Israel 108
82 Vilnius Lithuania 107.9
83 Buenos Aires Argentina 107.8
84 Milan Italy 107.6
85 Doha Qatar 106.2
86 Ljubljana Slovenia 106
87 Tunis Tunisia 105.9
88 Kuwait City Kuwait 105.6
88 Dallas United States 105.6
90 Asuncion Paraguay 103.7
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91 Gaborone Botswana 103.6

92 Riga Latvia 102.4
93 Seoul South Korea 102.2
94 Warsaw Poland 100.5
95 Nassau Bahamas 100.4
96 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 100.3
97 Blantyre Malawi 100.2
98 New York City United States 100
99 Atlanta United States 98.9
100 Houston United States 98.8
101 Busan South Korea 98.2
102 Rabat Morocco 97.2
103 Zagreb Croatia 96.7
104 Johor Baharu Malaysia 95.9
105 Bratislava Slovakia 95.7
106 Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei 94.7
107 Sofia Bulgaria 94.5
108 Skopje Macedonia 92.7
109 Brasilia Brazil 92.6
110 Harare Zimbabwe 90.7
111 Los Angeles United States 90.3
112 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 89.2
113 Casablanca Morocco 88.6
114 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 88.3
115 San Jose Costa Rica 88.1
116 Kingston Jamaica 87.5
117 Amman Jordan 87.4
118 Lima Peru 86.9
119 La Paz Bolivia 86.4
Laos, People's
119 Vientiane Dem. Republic of 86.4
121 Istanbul Turkey 85.2
122 Minsk Belarus 84.2
122 Lusaka Zambia 84.2
124 Taipei Taiwan 83.6
125 Yangon Myanmar 83.4
126 Libreville Gabon 83.1
127 Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire 83
127 Islamabad Pakistan 83
129 Tripoli Libya 82.9
130 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 82.5
131 Colombo Sri Lanka 82.1
132 Guatemala City Guatemala 81.3
Bosnia-
133 Sarajevo Herzegovina 80.8
134 Bogota Colombia 80.1
135 Bishkek Kyrgyzstan 79.6
136 Belgrade Serbia 79
137 Hanoi Vietnam 78.7
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138 Athens Greece 78.6

139 Qingdao China 78.4
140 Bucharest Romania 77.5
141 Havana Cuba 77.4
142 Hong Kong Hong Kong 77
142 Damascus Syria 77
144 Santiago Chile 76.9
145 Tirana Albania 76.8
146 Banjul Gambia 76.6
147 Dakar Senegal 76.5
148 Sao Paulo Brazil 75.7
149 Jilin China 74.4
150 Chengdu China 74.3
Trinidad and
151 Port of Spain Tobago 74
152 Shanghai China 73.9
Dominican
153 Santo Domingo Republic 73.7
154 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 73.6
155 Accra Ghana 72.2
156 Algiers Algeria 71.8
157 Monterrey Mexico 71.7
158 Phnom Penh Cambodia 71
158 Cairo Egypt 71
160 Djibouti Djibouti 70.9
161 Nairobi Kenya 70.1
162 Cotonou Benin 69.6
163 Lahore Pakistan 68.9
164 Shenzhen China 68.7
165 Quito Ecuador 68.2
166 Nanjing China 68
167 Guangzhou China 67.4
167 Shenyang China 67.4
169 Managua Nicaragua 65
170 Niamey Niger 63.5
171 Tehran Iran 62.9
172 Manila Philippines 62.8
173 Jakarta Indonesia 62.2
174 Dushanbe Tajikistan 62.1
174 Tashkent Uzbekistan 62.1
176 Ashkhabad Turkmenistan 61.9
Dem. Rep. of the
177 Kinshasa Congo 61.4
178 Lome Togo 61.1
179 Karachi Pakistan 61
180 Kampala Uganda 60.1
181 Beijing China 59.8
182 Yerevan Armenia 59.7
183 Tegucigalpa Honduras 59.5
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184 Khartoum Sudan 59.2

185 Douala Cameroon 58.8
186 Luanda Angola 58.7
186 Almaty Kazakhstan 58.7
Central African
188 Bangui Republic 58.5
189 San Salvador El Salvador 58.3
190 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 58.1
191 Bangkok Thailand 57.8
192 Nouakchott Mauritania 56.8
193 Yaounde Cameroon 56.7
Yemen Arab
194 Sana'a Republic 55.1
195 Kigali Rwanda 54.9
196 Maputo Mozambique 54.7
197 Kiev Ukraine 54.1
198 Bengaluru India 53.4
199 Conakry Guinea Republic 53.3
200 Beirut Lebanon 53.2
201 St. Petersburg Russia 52.8
202 Chennai India 52
203 Moscow Russia 50.9
204 Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 50.6
205 N'Djamena Chad 50.5
205 Bamako Mali 50.5
207 Tbilisi Georgia 49.4
208 Brazzaville Congo 47.8
209 Caracas Venezuela 47.6
210 Abuja Nigeria 45.6
211 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 43.9
212 Lagos Nigeria 43.5
213 New Delhi India 43.4
214 Baghdad Iraq 40.5
215 Mumbai India 40.4
216 Mexico City Mexico 40
217 Antananarivo Madagascar 39.7
218 Kolkata India 39.2
219 Baku Azerbaijan 31.9
220 Dhaka Bangladesh 30.9
221 Port-au-Prince Haiti 27.8
* Mercer’s Eco-City Ranking 2010 includes the following criteria: Water Availability, Water
Potability, Waste Removal, Sewage, Air Pollution and Traffic Congestion.