Mercer 2018 Quality of Living Survey

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Mercer has just released the Quality of Living City rankings for 2018.

Mercer is a leading provider of data on quality of living for employees sent to work abroad. Ongoing research on the practicalities of daily life for these expatriate employees and their families forms the basis of their annual ranking of the quality of living in many prevalent assignment locations.

Melbourne and Sydney have held onto their top 20 positions in Mercer’s annual Quality of Living ranking 10th and 16th respectively.

Mercer evaluates local living conditions in more than 450 cities surveyed worldwide. Living conditions are analysed according to 39 factors, grouped in 10 categories:

• Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc.).
• Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services).
• Socio-cultural environment (media availability and censorship, limitations on personal freedom).
• Medical and health considerations (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc.).
• Schools and education (standards and availability of international schools).
• Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transportation, traffic congestion, etc.).
• Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports and leisure, etc.).
• Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc.).
• Housing (rental housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services).
• Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters). 

The scores attributed to each factor, which are weighted to reflect their importance to expatriates, permit objective city-to-city comparisons. The result is a Quality of Living index that compares relative differences between any two locations evaluated. 

2018 CITY RANKINGS

 

Other cities outside the top 25

29 Adelaide

30 Canberra

37 Brisbane

41 London

46 Edinburgh

50 Birmingham