Global consultancy Mercer ranked world cities by quality of life in its 2019 Quality of Living Ranking.

It looked at housing, education, public services and transport, natural environment and other factors.

The top 10 cities on the list are shown below.

Businesses around the world are waking up to the fact that attracting and retaining the best people is easier if they locate in places where employees can enjoy a superior quality of life.

Global consultancy Mercer analyzed more than 230 cities around the world, using criteria such as housing, education, public services and transport, natural environment, recreation, and political, and social environment to assemble its 2019 Quality of Living Ranking.

Here are the top 10 cities on its list:represented the largest proportion of online to digital, with a 192 per cent increase provided to the total by the online readers.Overall, the Daily Mail still had the largest combined monthly readership across the board with 18.8 million print and online readers, followed by the Sun with just under 17 million and the Guardian in third. In terms of weekly and daily readers, the Sun remained the most popular newspaper with 12.6 million and 7.2 million combined readers respectively.Elsewhere, The Daily Express experienced a significant rise in its online traffic when compared to the last PADD report for 2012 , increasing more than twofold from 518,000 to 1.3 million, and the Financial Times' online readership reached just over one million, despite the paywall.The only other national newspapers to