Whether it is quality of life, universities or globalisation, Switzerland regularly excels in international rankings. SWI swissinfo.ch digs into recent global surveys to analyse the results. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Switzerland has one of the world’s most liveable cities – Zurich – according to a recent study in Nature Cities. In the country’s largest city (population 430,000), 99.2% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of essential services such as healthcare and education. The “15-minute city” is a concept used by scientists and urban planners. Sprawling North American cities with a high dependency on cars, such as Dallas, Atlanta and Detroit, ranked poorly. “Zurich feels extraordinarily walkable to me, coming from the US,” Luke Harris, a landscape architect from Portland, Oregon, told The Guardian newspaper. “Most of the things you need are within walking distance – and if they’re not, it’s easy to take public transport.” Zurich regularly …