Global Habit
Two countries. One number. Higher or lower.
Global Habit is a free higher-or-lower geography game in the browser. Two countries appear on screen with a single statistic between them — population, GDP per capita, peak elevation, Olympic medals, coastline length, average capital-city temperature, and ten more. You guess which figure is higher or lower. Get it right and your streak grows; get it wrong and the round ends. One game takes about a minute.
No signup is required to play. An optional Google or Apple sign-in carries your scores and streak between devices. The whole thing is supported by a single ad shown after each game, which is how the site stays free.
How to play
Pick a category from the home page or play The Daily Five — one curated five-round run that's the same for every player every UTC day. Endless mode lets you keep going until you miss; the leaderboard tracks your longest perfect streak in each category.
14 categories across 196 countries
Every comparison is sourced from authoritative public data — the UN World Population Prospects, the World Bank, the CIA World Factbook, UN Tourism, the IOC, Global Firepower, and Wikipedia. Numbers are refreshed quarterly. The categories cover the most-asked questions in geography: how big a country is, how rich, how mountainous, how visited, how cold its capital gets in January.
- Country population — UN 2024 estimates
- Capital city population — metro area totals
- Country land area — total area in km2
- Capital city area — city-proper land area
- Military firepower — Global Firepower index
- Tourism arrivals — UN Tourism, 2023
- Land neighbors — number of bordering countries
- Capital climate — average annual temperature
- Life expectancy — UN estimates at birth
- Total land border length
- Coastline length
- GDP per capita — World Bank
- Google Trends — relative search popularity
- All-time Olympic medals
- Highest elevation — tallest peak in each country
The Daily Five
Every UTC midnight, a new five-round daily challenge appears. Same two countries, same five categories for every player. Score zero to five. A perfect 5/5 extends your perfect streak; anything lower resets it. The Daily Five is for players who want a tiny ritual rather than an endless leaderboard chase — thirty seconds, then close the tab and come back tomorrow.
Atlas-magazine design
The look borrows from old printed atlases: cream paper, italic display headlines, a single accent color, no gradients. The hope is that a game about the world should feel a little like opening a reference book.