A recent report has ranked Kenya’s capital Nairobi as the most costly city to live in East Africa.
Key considerations in the indexing were factored on cost of inflation for goods and services, currency fluctuations and instability of accommodation prices.
The reserach conducted by Mercer, a global consutancy firm ranked Nairobi at position 145 globaly having desended from position 95 in 2020.
Nairobi was ranked at the 21 position among the most expensive cities in Africa after Zimbabwe’s Harare at position 20 and Egypt’s Cairo at position 19.
Harare and Cairo were ranked at positions 141 and 137 respectively in the global index.
Other East African cties were ranked as follows globally: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 167, Kampala, Uganda 171. Kigali, Rwanda 175.
Lagos, Nigeria 19 th position globally, Libreville, Gabon 20, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire 24 Bangui, Central African Republic 30 and Brazzaville, Congo at 38.
According to the the firm that conducted the global reserach, the survey aims at pointing out the needs individual should meet so as to asses what translates to a fair cost of living on a global scale.
In June 17, a study conducted by Vaay, a German based well being company ranked Nairobi at position 80 out of 100 countries as one of the most stressful cities.
“We carried out some research to determine the most and least stressful cities in the world, based on structural and environmental factors that are often very visible, but sometimes overlooked, and can contribute to a person’s overall level of stress,” the report said in part.
The study looked at governmental factors that dictate levels of inclusion in a city, such as safety and security, gender and minority equality, and socio-political stability.
Nairobi scored fairly in gender equality at 52 points out of a possible 100 and low on safety and security at 24 points.
The city scored high in having low air and light pollution and favorable weather conditions, which anchor its total score of 56.1 out of a possible 100 points.
