Living Green: Ranking the best (and worst) countries

Just because a country or place is environmentally “fit” doesn’t mean you’d want to spend your life there – think jungles or the Antarctic. But finding the perfect balance between what’s green and what’s livable could lead you to paradise. Aiming for that ideal, we researched the world’s greenest countries while also ensuring they were ones where people could thrive. Along the way, we also unearthed the worst places in the world to live.

We analysed data from top sources covering 141 nations to rank the planet’s greenest, most livable places.

How Countries Rate

1 Finland
2 Iceland
3 Norway
4 Sweden
5 Austria
8 Australia
19 New Zealand
23 USA

Bottom 5

137 Chad
138 Burkina Faso
139 Sierra Leone
140 Niger
141 Ethiopia

The world’s greenest, most livable cities

Using different data, we analysed 72 major international cities, ranking them in terms of being green and livable.

5 Best

1 Stockholm
2 Oslo
3 Munich
4 Paris
5 Frankfurt

5 Worst

68 Bangkok
69 Guangzhou
70 Mumbai
71 Shanghai
72 Beijing
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Worldwide Quality of Living Survey 2007

Mercer Human Resource Consulting Worldwide Quality of Living Survey 2007 Top 50 (Source: www.mercer.com)
				Base City: New York, USA (=100)
Rank 2007		Rank 2006		City		Country		Index 2007		Index 2006
1		1		ZURICH		Switzerland		108.1		108.2
2		2		GENEVA		Switzerland		108.0		108.1
3		3		VANCOUVER		Canada		107.7		107.7
3		4		VIENNA		Austria		107.7		107.5
5		5		AUCKLAND		New Zealand		107.3		107.3
5		6		DUSSELDORF		Germany		107.3		107.2
7		7		FRANKFURT		Germany		107.1		107.0
8		8		MUNICH		Germany		106.9		106.8
9		9		BERN		Switzerland		106.5		106.5
9		9		SYDNEY		Australia		106.5		106.5
11		11		COPENHAGEN		Denmark		106.2		106.2
12		12		WELLINGTON		New Zealand		105.8		105.8
13		13		AMSTERDAM		The Netherlands		105.7		105.7
14		14		BRUSSELS		Belgium		105.6		105.6
15		15		TORONTO		Canada		105.4		105.4
16		16		BERLIN		Germany		105.2		105.1
17		17		MELBOURNE		Australia		105.0		105.0
18		18		LUXEMBOURG		Luxembourg		104.8		104.8
18		18		OTTAWA		Canada		104.8		104.8
20		20		STOCKHOLM		Sweden		104.7		104.7
21		21		PERTH		Australia		104.5		104.5
22		22		MONTREAL		Canada		104.3		104.3
23		23		NURNBERG		Germany		104.2		104.1
24		25		CALGARY		Canada		103.6		103.6
24		26		HAMBURG		Germany		103.6		103.4
26		31		OSLO		Norway		103.5		102.8
27		24		DUBLIN		Ireland		103.3		103.8
27		27		HONOLULU, HI		United States		103.3		103.3
29		28		SAN FRANCISCO, CA		United States		103.2		103.2
30		29		ADELAIDE		Australia		103.1		103.1
30		29		HELSINKI		Finland		103.1		103.1
32		31		BRISBANE		Australia		102.8		102.8
33		33		PARIS		France		102.7		102.7
34		34		SINGAPORE		Singapore		102.5		102.5
35		35		TOKYO		Japan		102.3		102.3
36		37		LYON		France		101.9		101.6
36		36		BOSTON, MA		United States		101.9		101.9
38		37		YOKOHAMA		Japan		101.7		101.6
39		39		LONDON		United Kingdom		101.2		101.2
40		40		KOBE		Japan		101.0		101.0
41		44		BARCELONA		Spain		100.6		100.2
42		45		MADRID		Spain		100.5		100.1
42		51		OSAKA		Japan		100.5		99.6
44		41		WASHINGTON, DC		United States		100.4		100.4
44		41		CHICAGO, IL		United States		100.4		100.4
46		43		PORTLAND, OR		United States		100.3		100.3
47		53		LISBON		Portugal		100.1		98.9
48		46		NEW YORK CITY, NY		United States		100.0		100.0
49		51		MILAN		Italy		99.9		99.6
49		47		SEATTLE, WA		United States		99.9		99.9

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