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Africa's top 5 cities enjoying continent's best quality of life - four are in same country - DAILY EXPRESS
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A country must meet several requirements in order to provide its citizens with a good quality of life.
Some of these include having happy citizens, citizens considered healthy and having access to resources which allow them to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
Other factors include having a good work/life balance, having enough income, decent housing, access to high education, access to leisure and cultural activities, people living in a natural environment they enjoy and feeling relatively safe.
Put simply, quality or disquality of life indicates the experiences that shape the citizens' daily lives whether positive or negative.
When it comes to the quality of life in the African continent, South Africa continues to dominate the top five chart.
A data and research platform known as Numbeo recently spotlighted cities in Africa believed to be providing their residents with the
best quality of life at the start of 2025.
The list was compiled using an aggregate score and considered a host of factors.
This included purchasing power index, healthcare index, safety index, property price to income ratio, healthcare index, pollution index, climate index and traffic commute time.
The higher each city scored the better the quality of life these regions have with a comparative tool evaluating the contrast when it comes to living standards in different places in the world.
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The latest Quality of Life Index by Numbeo clearly indicates that South African cities dominate when it comes to having a higher quality of life, much like in previous years.
This highlights South Africa's stability when it comes to its urban living standards regardless of the country's socio-economic challenges, the data suggests.
Notable changes in this year's Quality of Life Index saw Casablanca in Morocco making its way into the top five, while both Kenya and Nairobi fell off the ranking list when compared to the 2024 ranking.
Another African spot off the top five rankings includes Nairobi, which was previously listed with a score of 97.4.
According to the list, the top 5 cities in Africa with the highest quality of life include:
5 Casablanca in Morocco with a score of 95.2
4 Johannesburg in South Africa with a score of 141.8
3 Durban in South Africa with a score of 149.0
2 Pretoria in South Africa with a score of 157.9
1 Cape Town in South Africa with a score of 160.2
