Cost of living, Quality of life and travel for around the world.
Quality of Life Index 2015 Mid Year
22 July 2015 @ 6:20 am
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Quality of Life Index 2015 Mid Year
Worldwide
Top 10Quality of Life Index
Zurich288.36
Canberra286.87
Ottawa279.46
Munich
Cost of Living Index 2014 Mid Year
1 July 2014 @ 8:04 am
Cost of Living Index 2014 Mid Year
(July 1st, 2014)
Numbeo, the world's largest database of user contributed data about living conditions in cities and countries worldwide, released mid year 2014 rankings. The most expensive cities in the world, in mid 2014 are Zurich (CPI index 159.51), Stavanger (156.71) and Geneva (150.43). Indian cities Thiruvananthapuram (22.25), Coimbatore (24.57) and
Indore (25.90) are the least expensive cities in the world.
In Europe, cities in Switzerland and Norway dominate the list of most expensive cities, while the least expensive cities in Europe are Bitola (index 37.88), followed by Chisinau (38.40) and Dnipropetrovsk (40.53). Cities in Europe, out of allThe Most Expensive Cities in 2014 by Numbeo's Cost of Living International Rankings
28 January 2014 @ 11:33 am
The biggest free cost of living database, Numbeo, collected more than 1.1 million data from more than 130000 contributors since 2009. The result of Numbeo's survey, shows, that in the beginning of 2014, the most expensive cities (excluding rent) are Zurich (index 157.47), Trondheim (152.89) and Geneva (162.34). The least expensive are Thiruvananthapuram (21.17), Tiruchirapalli (23.23) and Indore (23.94) in India.
Numbeo is currently tracking the prices of 48 goods and services. In Numbeo's survey, New York is used as the base city for the index and scores 100 points, all cities are compared against New York and currency movements are measured against US Dollar and EURO. Lucerne in Switzerland scores 150.75 points and is nearly three times as costly as Consanta in Romania with an index score of 50.32.
In Europe, many cities in Switzerland and Norway are among the most expensive on the list, followed by Paris (120.68). In
New Numbeo release brings support for mobile phones!
7 October 2013 @ 11:56 am
New www.numbeo.com release brings support for mobile phones. Let me know if you encounter any problem. New mobile version of the website is supposed to load automatically when you access the website from the mobile phone.
BudgetDirect Provides Interesting User Experience over Numbeo Data
2 October 2013 @ 7:11 am
BudgetDirect do provide interesting user experience using Numbeo data in their cost of living tool . I'm interested to hear what do you like and what do you dislike in their tool, especially regarding look&feel.
Numbeo, the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide, has chosen Iceland as the least polluted country in 2013
27 February 2013 @ 12:28 pm
Top 10 the least polluted countries, according to Numbeo are:
- Iceland (pollution index 9.85)
- Estonia (16.38)
- Finland (18.53)
- Sweden (18.79)
- Australia (20.89)
- New Zealand (21.80)
- Switzerland (22.97)
- Norway (23.35)
- Lithuania (25.17)
- Canada (26.52)
The full list is available at:
http://www.numbeo.com/pollution/rankings_by_country.jsp
Top 10 Safest Countries in the World in 2013
27 February 2013 @ 12:28 pm
Japan is the safest country in the world in 2013, according to Numbeo, the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide.
Top 10 safest countries, according to Numbeo are:
- Japan (safety index 86.89)
- Taiwan (83.74)
- Hong Kong (83.43)
- South Korea (82.60)
- United Arab Emirates (81.99)
- Malta (81.46)
- Luxembourg (81.25)
- Georgia (80.43)
- Bahrain (80.21)
- Singapore (80.02)
- Iceland (77.68)
The full list is available at:
http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
Numbeo: Quality of Life Index by City 2013
27 February 2013 @ 12:27 pm
ZURICH is the city with the best quality of life in 2013, according to an annual report by Numbeo, the world's largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. For its quality of life index 2013 it gathered data from more than 76000 people around the world.
The cities which are ranked highest in quality of life are:
- Zurich, Switzerland (score 233.72)
- Canberra, Australia (219.15)
- Adelaide, Australia (214.61)
- Berlin, Germany (213.50)
- Munich, Germany (210.24)
- Edmonton, Canada (208.74)
- Calgary, Canada (202.72)
- Hamburg, Germany (201.55)
- Austin, TX, United States (199.52)
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates (195.49)
Full rankings are available at:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings.jsp
About Numbeo:
Numbeo is the worl
Property Prices Indexes 2013
4 February 2013 @ 11:19 am
Numbeo did publish it's property price indexes for 2013.
Property Price Index by city is available at: http://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings.jsp
Property Price Index by country is available at : http://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_country.jsp
Cost of Living Index for 2013 - Norway, Switzerland and Australia are most expensive
4 February 2013 @ 11:16 am
Based on 48 goods and services, Numbeo's survey for 2013 is made using a data cut on 4th of February 2013. This year data cut contains 367958 entries from 33448 individual contributors worldwide.
The data on city level are showing Norwegian cities Stavanger, Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen on top of the list of most expensive cities. Several cities in Switzerland are also among the most expensive in the world: Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne and Bern. Among the 25 most expensive cities in the world, our list includes also eight Australian cities: Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. Only a few cities which are not in Norway, Switzerland and Australia made their way into the top 25 most expensive list: Luanda in Angola, Stockholm in Sweden, Arhus and Copenhagen in Denmark, Paris in France, Luxembourg and on 25th place Tokyo in Japan.
List with details on city level is available at:
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