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People wait to commute as an overloaded bus approaches on a street after office hours during Ramadan in Dhaka.
Cities with major conflicts tended to score the lowest. Military and political conflicts weigh heavily on livability because they adversely affect many other factors as well: infrastructure is destroyed; hospitals are supersaturated with the wounded and dead; and economic productivity drops.
The survey notes that it's "designed to address a range of cities or business centers that people might want to live in or visit", and consequently, they have excluded hotspots such as Kabul, Afghanistan and Baghdad, Iraq.