Happy Places
Last updated: 10 November 2026
Life Satisfaction 🇯🇵🇺🇸
This ranki.gg Rank it uses one measure: Life satisfaction (Cantril ladder, 0–10), in /10. The countries on the card are Costa Rica, Mexico, United States, United Kingdom, Japan. You do not have to recall the numbers from memory. They sit in a column. The job is to match each country to the value that belongs to it, then lock the order in. Five tries. A card in the right spot locks. A card in the wrong spot turns red so you can move it.
Costa Rica and Mexico outscore the richer US and UK. These scores track social support and health more than income.
The countries on the card
| # | Country | /10 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Costa Rica | 7.44 |
| 2 | Mexico | 6.97 |
| 3 | United States | 6.82 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 6.69 |
| 5 | Japan | 6.13 |
Costa Rica leads this table at 7.44 /10. After that: Mexico at 6.97 (0.47 /10 under Costa Rica); United States at 6.82 (0.15 /10 under Mexico); United Kingdom at 6.69 (0.13 /10 under United States); Japan at 6.13 (0.56 /10 under United Kingdom). Costa Rica is 1.214 times Japan. That multiple is the top row divided by the bottom row of this same table. In the wider list of 147 stored on the puzzle, Costa Rica is number 4, Mexico is number 12, United States is number 23, United Kingdom is number 29, Japan is number 61.
The fact says Costa Rica and Mexico outscore the richer United States and United Kingdom, and that these Cantril ladder scores track social support and health more than income. Japan is the low end of this five. The ladder is a 0 to 10 life-satisfaction score in the World Happiness Report, as processed by Our World in Data.
The source line on the puzzle is: World Happiness Report / Wellbeing Research Centre via Our World in Data. The puzzle does not add a separate caveat beyond that source line and the fact above. ranki.gg does not invent a value that is missing from that source. If two countries were so close that the order would depend on rounding, they would not be the pair the card asks you to separate.
When you finish the puzzle, the answer screen repeats the order, the fact, and a link to the source. That link is the same URL cited here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/happiness-cantril-ladder.