Turns out living here isn’t so bad after all.
Stress is very much an individual emotion; there are any amount of factors that cause it and different people feel under stress for a variety of different reasons.
On a collective basis, Bloomberg have attempted to determine the most stressful countries to live in around the world, taking into account seven different variables to come up with a score that reflects how stressful the environment is in particular countries.
The seven variables in question are Annual Homicide Rate, GDP per Capita, Income Inequality, Corruption, Unemployment Rate, Urban Air Pollution and Life Expectancy and out of 74 countries surveyed, Nigeria was deemed to be the most stressful country to live in with a score of 70.1 on a scale of 0-100.
It was followed by South Africa, El Salvador, Mongolia and Guatemala in the top five, with highly-populated countries such as Pakistan (7), India (14) and Brazil (17) also featuring in the top 20.
At the other end of the scale, nine of the ten least stressful countries to live in are located in Europe, with Norway deemed the least stressful with a score of 5.4, ahead of Luxembourg, Switzerland and Sweden.
Ireland fared pretty well with a ranking of 58 in the most stressful table, with the United Kingdom ranked two places above us in 56 and the United States a further two places higher in the list at 54.
There’s certainly nothing for us to get stressed out about as far as the general factors that make up the table are concerned; some might say that what’s happening on the ground is a different story altogether.
The most stressed-out countries:
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- El Salvador
- Mongolia
- Guatemala
- Colombia
- Pakistan
- Jamaica
- Macedonia
- Bolivia
58. Ireland
74. Norway
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