Cities similar to Metro Manila

Ranked by how close each city sits to Metro Manila across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

Bogota is the closest match, 15.6 percentile points from Metro Manila across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on places to eat, universities and clean air. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 18.4 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. None of the 10 are in Philippines. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Metro Manila because both score badly on the same things.

921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.

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BogotaColombia15.610places to eat, universities, clean air
Dar es SalaamTanzania15.910salary against local costs, green space, city-centre rent
JakartaIndonesia16.610local salary, green space, universities
NairobiKenya16.610local salary, salary against local costs, clean air
ValparaísoChile16.910safety, universities, city-centre rent
AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire17.410universities, clean air
QuitoEcuador17.710places to eat, safety, cost of living
BucaramangaColombia17.810salary against local costs, clean air, local salary
SkopjeNorth Macedonia17.810green space, women aged 20–39
MedanIndonesia18.410salary against local costs, universities, green space

Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.

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