According to the EIU’s Summary of the Liveability Ranking and Overview for 2015, Damascus has suffered the sharpest fall in liveability over the last five years of any of the cities globally that it considered. Its score fell 27.0 points to 29.3(out of 100 – based on stability, healthcare, culture/entertainment, education and infrastructure) and it is the least liveable of the 140 cities in the ranking. The EIU assesses that most aspects of living are ‘severely restricted’. The other four least liveable cities and their latest scores are Tripoli (40.0), Lagos (39.7), Port Moresby (38.9) and Dhaka (38.7).

Source : August 2015/EIU/Damascus/GEN