Drilling down Manila’s quality of life index

I DISCUSSED in last week’s column the annual research paper published by Deutsche Bank relative to its mapping of world prices. The Quality of Life (QoL) index is part of the paper’s table of exhibits. The index lists the ranking of major cities in the world arranged from that with the highest quality of life to the lowest.

In 2019, the Philippines (represented by Manila) ranked 54th place out of 56 participating cities in the world. In the mid-year 2020 report Manila, Philippines is no longer in 54th place because there are now 249 cities included in the research for the current Quality of Life Index.  Manila, Philippines is now at the bottom of the list at No. 249 (index of 45.53 as compared to 205.92 of first placer Adelaide, Australia).