香港位居全球生活成本最昂貴城市榜單第一名

Hong Kong is the world's most expensive city for expats, leapfrogging Angolan capital Luanda in the annual chart compiled by consultancy firm Mercer.

根據諮詢公司美世的年度圖表顯示，對外籍人士而言，香港超越了安哥拉首都羅安達，成爲世界上最昂貴的城市。

Luanda, which had consistently topped the list in recent years, fell in the ranking owing to the weakening of its local currency. Zurich and Singapore were third and fourth on the list, unchanged from a year ago. Tokyo rose to fifth.

羅安達近幾年一直位居榜首，今年由於當地貨幣的貶值而導致排名下滑。蘇黎世和新加坡位居第三及第四位，和去年相比沒有變化。而東京則上升至第五位。

The survey is designed for companies to calculate expat workers' allowances.

這項調查是爲幫助公司計算駐外工作者的生活補助而設計的。

It weighs up the cost of living in 209 cities across the world, comparing the cost of more than 200 items in each location, including housing, transport, food, clothing and entertainment.

該調查評估了世界上209個城市的生活消費水平，廣泛比較了200餘個項目，包括住房、食品、交通、服裝和娛樂。

Kinshasa was ranked sixth, appearing in the top 10 for the first time, followed by Shanghai, Geneva, N'Djamena, and Beijing.

金沙薩排名第六，這是該城市第一次出現在前十名當中，接下來依次是上海，日內瓦，恩賈梅納和北京。

Mercer said that rankings were affected by "volatile markets and stunted economic growth in many parts of the world".

美世諮詢公司表示，此排名受到了“波動的市場和世界許多地方停滯的經濟增長”的影響。

The world's least expensive cities for expats, according to the cost of living survey, is the Namibian capital Windhoek, followed by Cape Town.

而據生活消費調查顯示，世界上對外籍人士來說最便宜的城市是納米比亞首都溫得和克，其次是開普敦。