Dutchies have a reason to celebrate this morning as the Netherlands has the second-highest quality of life in the whole WORLD.
On top of that, the Netherlands is the proud host to four of the top 10 cities with the highest quality of life!
Considering factors such as the cost of living, healthcare, climate, and more, Numbeo has compiled data for over 84 countries and 195 cities, placing the land of tulips and bicycles in second place.
Top 10 countries for quality of life
So, who defeated the Netherlands for the top spot? The answer may surprise you:
| Rank | Country |
| 1 | Luxembourg |
| 2 | The Netherlands |
| 3 | Iceland |
| 4 | Denmark |
| 5 | Finland |
| 6 | Oman |
| 7 | Switzerland |
| 8 | Norway |
| 9 | Austria |
| 10 | Estonia |
Luxembourg maintains a comfy eight-point lead ahead of the Netherlands in quality of life, ranking much higher in the Purchasing Power index (no surprise there).
The rest of the top 10 is dominated by other European countries, except for Oman, ranking in sixth place.
Dutch domination in the top 10 cities
In even better news, a whopping FOUR Dutch cities have made the top 10 for quality of life and landed the two top spots:
| Rank | City |
| 1 | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2 | Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 3 | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| 4 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 5 | Valencia, Spain |
| 6 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 7 | Helsinki, Finland |
| 8 | Madrid, Spain |
| 9 | Vienna, Austria |
| 10 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
While we love to complain about the housing shortage and overall cost of living, we can’t help but be a little proud that nearly half of the top 10 cities are from the Netherlands.
For the second year in a row, The Hague scored the number one city for the highest quality of life (and we’re still not surprised), while Eindhoven, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam follow in 2nd, 4th, and 6th place.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg also made an appearance in the top three, while the Scandinavian cities seem to be more scarce, only boasting Helsinki, Finland and Copenhagen, Denmark this year.
Are you surprised about these rankings? Tell us in a comment below!
I’m a bit surprised by the city ranking in the Netherlands. Of those cities I would have thought Eindhoven would be first. The other three lots lower on the list because of housing costs, crime rate etc.
Our son and family love living there. Healthy markets, healthy air, and activities galore.
I’m highly doubting the results of numbeo, it is not trustworthy so this ranking says nothing. And no, the Netherlands doesn’t have so good quality of life and I have many reasons to doubt.
I agree with you . Because Numbeo is a non reliable source to decide this . First see the rating of the website. It is itself poor how it’s figures can decide the outcome 😂
We moved to The Hague 3 years ago with our kids, couldn’t be happier !
Our kids cycle to school themselves, it is very safe compared to the USA.
We make decent income, healthcare extremely cheap compared to US.
Everybody here speaks very good english, so there’s no language shock.