Costa Rica vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Costa Rica converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 7.1 points of conversion residual (Costa Rica -6.5 vs United States -13.6).

MetricCosta RicaUnited States
Health 76.7 73.3
Time & work–life 40.8 65.0
Economic security 29.1 46.4
Safety 49.6 73.4
Social connection 52.5 59.1
Environment 60.4 85.3
Composite (W) 49.3 65.9
Conversion residual -6.5 -13.6

Bold = higher score. Higher is better for every row (conversion residual: higher = delivers more wellbeing than its wealth predicts).

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