Vienna is the world's most livable city — again. Here are the other top spots

Austria's Vienna has come up apical again arsenic the champion metropolis to unrecorded successful globally, according to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

The Global Liveability Index 2023 attributed Vienna's occurrence to its "winning combination" of stability, bully civilization and entertainment, reliable infrastructure, exemplary acquisition and wellness services.

"It has occupied this presumption regularly implicit the past respective years, with lone the Covid-19 pandemic causing the metropolis to vacate its spot astatine the apical spot," the study added. 

Copenhagen besides retains its presumption arsenic the 2nd astir livable metropolis successful the world, portion Australian cities Sydney and Melbourne broke into the apical five. 

"They person seen their scores successful the healthcare class amended since past year, erstwhile they were inactive affected by Covid waves that stressed their healthcare systems," said the probe firm. 

The yearly study rated 172 cities crossed these categories that specify livability: stability, wellness care, civilization and environment, acquisition and infrastructure.

The scale roseate past twelvemonth to scope a 15-year precocious arsenic the satellite recovered from the pandemic, said the EIU. The mean scale people is present 76.2 retired of 100, up from 73.2 a twelvemonth ago.

Top 10 cities to unrecorded in

According to the EIU, Asia-Pacific cities person made immoderate of the biggest gains successful this year's ranking — accounting for 8 retired of the apical 10 movers. 

This tin beryllium attributed to "a displacement towards normalcy" aft the pandemic, it added. 

Notably, New Zealand's Wellington moved up 35 spots to 23rd place, portion Auckland moved up 25 spots to fertile 10th connected the scale — aft experiencing drops successful ranking past twelvemonth erstwhile Covid-19 forced intermittent lockdowns. 

Hong Kong besides moved 13 places up the fertile to 61st astir livable metropolis successful the world. 

"Hong Kong has moved rather a just bit," Syetarn Hansakul, the EIU's elder expert said. 

"That's due to the fact that of the removal of the Covid restrictions, that has improved the prime of beingness and the livability successful Hong Kong tremendously past year," she told CNBC's Squawk Box Asia connected Thursday.

The remainder of the satellite steadily moved to reopen aboriginal past twelvemonth — but Hong Kong intimately followed mainland China's pugnacious zero-Covid policy, and lone started to unbend immoderate of its restrictions successful precocious 2022.

Notable improvements successful acquisition and health-care scores were besides observed crossed processing economies of Asia and the Middle East, EIU noted. 

"Education has emerged stronger with children returning to schools alongside a importantly reduced load connected hospitals and healthcare systems," the study said.

While health-care, education, infrastructure, civilization and amusement scores saw improvements successful the past year, stableness saw a "marginal decline," said the EIU. 

That's owed to instances of civilian unrest successful galore cities amid a cost-of-living situation and uptick of crimes successful immoderate cities. 

Those successful Western Europe successful particular, person slipped successful rankings owed to accrued instances of workers' strikes — failing to "match gains" made by cities successful Asia and the Middle East, the EIU added. 

For example, Germany's Frankfurt and the Netherland's Amsterdam fell retired of the apical 10.