Happy City Index:
This ranking covers cities with reliable and comprehensive data available, and looks at 82 indicators across the themes of Citizens (e.g. foreign language competence, knowledge centres, and housing affordability), Governance (e.g. availability of online public services), Environment (e.g. green parks and spaces), Economy (e.g. GDP per person, unemployment rate), Health (e.g. wellbeing in school, safety in public spaces) and Mobility (e.g. air transport availability and road traffic accidents).
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United Nations Human Development Index:
The index looks at the life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling, the GNI per capita, and the difference between GNI per capita and the Human Development ranking.
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US News & World Report:
This ranking draws on surveys of nearly 17.000 people worldwide and scores countries across on the following indicators: Affordable, job market strength, economic stability, family-friendliness, income equality, political stability, safe, well-developed public education system.
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US News & World Report:
This ranking draws on surveys of nearly 17.000 people worldwide and scores countries across on the following indicators: Affordable, job market strength, economic stability, family-friendliness, income equality, political stability, safe, well-developed public education system.
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OECD’s Work-life balance:
This measure is based on time devoted to leisure and personal care, as well as the percentage of employees working very long hours.
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