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Ranking of leading 20 smart cities globally in 2023, by human development index (HDI) score

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April 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2023

Supplementary notes

Source does not give numerical score values to the city ranking aside from 1-20 but assigns alphabetical rankings. To illustrate comparative ranking the United Nations HDI index is added to the Smart City Index. Inconsistencies between the rankings and the HDI number are where the Smart City Index evaluates the city higher than the HDI score.

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In 2023 Zurich was both the leading smart city based on the IMD smart city index as well as the city with the highest human development index score, making it one of the premier places on earth to live in. Notable exceptions to the HDI to IMD index score were Beijing, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. Beijing is a notable outlier because although it ranked 12th on the digital smart cities ranking it was nearly 90 points lower than Zurich on the HDI score. This is compared to Munich, Germany, which was the 20th digital city but had a HDI score of ***.

Smart tech is watching.

CCTV cameras powered by artificial intelligence have become a significant growing market in the modern city. These are predominantly residential, with half the market catering to residential applications of CCTV cameras. However, commercial and business-related CCTV cameras have also seen significant growth, with the market reaching over *** million U.S. dollars in 2023.

Digital cities need data and data needs infrastructure.

The leading issue with AI infrastructure is data management. AI is a strong influence on how digital cities work and requires a considerable amount of infrastructure to be effective. Storage of AI software is a minor concern, accounting for less than ** percent of challenges globally in 2023.