Mercer released their 2015 Quality of Living Rankings, with Vancouver coming on top for North America and 5th place worldwide. The rankings are based on Mercer's Quality of Living Survey of expatriates in 230 cities around the world. Toronto and Ottawa followed, at 15 and 16 respectively, and San Francisco (27) and Boston (34) were top amongst US cities on the list.
2015 City Rankings
RankCityCountry
1ViennaAustria
2ZurichSwitzerland
3AucklandNew Zealand
4MunichGermany
5VancouverCanada
6DusseldorfGermany
7FrankfurtGermany
8GenevaSwitzerland
9CopenhagenDenmark
10SydneyAustralia
11AmsterdamNetherlands
12WellingtonNew Zealand
13BernSwitzerland
14BerlinGermany
15TorontoCanada
16HamburgGermany
16MelbourneAustralia
16OttawaCanada
19LuxembourgLuxembourg
19StockholmSweden
21StuttgartGermany
22BrusselsBelgium
22PerthAustralia
24MontrealCanada
25NurnbergGermany
26SingaporeSingapore
27AdelaideAustralia
27ParisFrance
27San FranciscoUnited States
30CanberraAustralia
31HelsinkiFinland
31OsloNorway
33CalgaryCanada
34BostonUnited States
34DublinIreland
36HonoluluUnited States
37BrisbaneAustralia
38BarcelonaSpain
39LyonFrance
40LondonUnited Kingdom
41LisbonPortugal
41MilanItaly
43ChicagoUnited States
44New York CityUnited States
44SeattleUnited States
44TokyoJapan
47KobeJapan
48Los AngelesUnited States
48YokohamaJapan
50WashingtonUnited States
51MadridSpain
52BirminghamUnited Kingdom
52RomeItaly
54PittsburghUnited States
55GlasgowUnited Kingdom
55PhiladelphiaUnited States
57AberdeenUnited Kingdom
58OsakaJapan
59LeipzigGermany
60MinneapolisUnited States
61NagoyaJapan
62DallasUnited States
63BelfastUnited Kingdom
64HoustonUnited States
65MiamiUnited States
66AtlantaUnited States
67St. LouisUnited States
68PragueCzech Republic
69Pointe-a-PitreGuadeloupe
70DetroitUnited States
70Hong KongHong Kong
72San JuanPuerto Rico
72SeoulSouth Korea
74DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
75BudapestHungary
75LjubljanaSlovenia
77Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates
78MontevideoUruguay
79VilniusLithuania
79WarsawPoland
81BratislavaSlovakia
82Port LouisMauritius
83TaipeiTaiwan
84Kuala LumpurMalaysia
85AthensGreece
85DurbanSouth Africa
87LimassolCyprus
88TallinnEstonia
89RigaLatvia
90BusanSouth Korea
91Buenos AiresArgentina
91Cape TownSouth Africa
93SantiagoChile
94JohannesburgSouth Africa
95Panama CityPanama
96VictoriaSeychelles
97ZagrebCroatia
98CheonanSouth Korea
99TaichungTaiwan
100WroclawPoland
101ShanghaiChina
102Bandar Seri BegawanBrunei
103Johor BahruMalaysia
104MuscatOman
105Tel AvivIsrael
106San JoseCosta Rica
107BrasiliaBrazil
108DohaQatar
109MonterreyMexico
110BucharestRomania
111NoumeaNew Caledonia
112NassauBahamas
113TunisTunisia
114AsuncionParaguay
115SofiaBulgaria
116RabatMorocco
117BangkokThailand
118BeijingChina
119Rio de JaneiroBrazil
120Sao PauloBrazil
121GuangzhouChina
122AmmanJordan
122IstanbulTurkey
124LimaPeru
125Kuwait CityKuwait
126Mexico CityMexico
127ManausBrazil
128CasablancaMorocco
129QuitoEcuador
130ManamaBahrain
131BogotaColombia
132ColomboSri Lanka
133ChengduChina
133WindhoekNamibia
135Santo DomingoDominican Republic
136ManilaPhilippines
137NanjingChina
138HyderabadIndia
139ShenzhenChina
140JakartaIndonesia
141BelgradeSerbia
142Xi'anChina
142ChongqingChina
144GaboroneBotswana
145PuneIndia
146BangaloreIndia
147Port of SpainTrinidad and Tobago
147QingdaoChina
149LusakaZambia
150Guatemala CityGuatemala
151ChennaiIndia
152MumbaiIndia
153Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam
154HanoiVietnam
154New DelhiIndia
156KingstonJamaica
156La PazBolivia
156ShenyangChina
159SkopjeMacedonia
160KolkataIndia
161SarajevoBosnia-Herzegovina
162DakarSenegal
163RiyadhSaudi Arabia
164LibrevilleGabon
165AccraGhana
166JeddahSaudi Arabia
167MoscowRussia
168JilinChina
169KampalaUganda
170CairoEgypt
171VientianeLaos
172San SalvadorEl Salvador
173ManaguaNicaragua
174Saint PetersburgRussia
175AlmatyKazakhstan
176KievUkraine
177BlantyreMalawi
178MaputoMozambique
179CaracasVenezuela
180TiranaAlbania
181BeirutLebanon
182CotonouBenin
183YerevanArmenia
184BanjulGambia
184TegucigalpaHonduras
186NairobiKenya
187AlgiersAlgeria
188DjiboutiDjibouti
189KigaliRwanda
189MinskBelarus
191IslamabadPakistan
192YaoundeCameroon
193HavanaCuba
194TbilisiGeorgia
195Phnom PenhCambodia
196DoualaCameroon
197BakuAzerbaijan
198Dar es SalaamTanzania
199LahorePakistan
200LuandaAngola
201YangonMyanmar
202KarachiPakistan
203TehranIran
204LomeTogo
205Addis AbabaEthiopia
206HarareZimbabwe
206TashkentUzbekistan
208BishkekKyrgyzstan
209AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire
210AshkhabadTurkmenistan
211DhakaBangladesh
211LagosNigeria
213AbujaNigeria
214DushanbeTajikistan
215OuagadougouBurkina Faso
216TripoliLibya
217AntananarivoMadagascar
217NiameyNiger
219BamakoMali
220DamascusSyria
221NouakchottMauritania
222ConakryGuinea
223KinshasaCongo, Democratic Republic of
224BrazzavilleCongo, Republic of
225Sana'aYemen
226N'DjamenaChad
227KhartoumSudan
228Port au PrinceHaiti
229BanguiCentral African Republic
230BaghdadIraq
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