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To most people living abroad is the dream – a stress-free life and never-ending holiday. However, from finding a job to organising international health insurance, moving abroad can be a source of anxiety. Experiencing some level of stress when you are relocating is totally normal, but the COVID-19 pandemic has created a much more worrying environment than usual. Mental health problems have got worse across all age-groups in the past year.
Whether you’re already an expat or only thinking of embracing moving abroad, there are places in the world that are less stressful for living and working. That’s why we ranked 73 cities and 38 countries to find the most and least stressful in the world. We also compared the 50 US states to reveal which states are the most and least stressed in the country. Our ranking is based on cleanliness, financial stress, LGBTQ+ safety and suicide rates and we hope it will help you decide where to find your next big – and stress-free – challenge.
1/ Finland
Score: 3.21
- Not only is Finland’s capital, Helsinki, the least stressed city in the world but the country ranks as the least stressed overall in the OECD.
- Studies have shown that increased levels of noise and light are one of the biggest impacting factors on stress levels. Known for being one of the happiest countries in the world, Finland is one of the best countries for low levels of noise and light pollution.
- Breathing dirty air or particulate matter can be linked to increased levels of stress and health complications. Finland has the lowest air pollution index of all OECD countries, at just 12.07.
2/ Sweden
Score: 3.38
- Nordic countries often rank as some of the least stressed in the world, and Sweden is no exception. Sweden ranks among the best 5 countries for air pollution, with an air pollution index of 18.43.
- Sweden ranks as one of the safest OECD countries for the LGBTQ+ community – same-sex marriage has been legal since 2009 and lesbian couples have had equal access to IVF since 2005.
3/ Australia
Score: 3.4
- Research has linked nature to happiness for years, suggesting that exposure to natural green spaces positively impacts both emotional mood and physical health – Australia has the highest rating for quality of green spaces and parks out of all OECD countries, at 87.88.
- Australia also has one of the lowest noise and light pollution levels of all OECD countries, which has been said to impact sleep disturbance and anxiety.
Methodology
Cities
The ranking is based on cleanliness, financial stress, LGBTQ+ safety and suicide rates. Cleanliness includes air pollution, noise pollution, cleanliness rating and quality of green spaces rating.
Financial stress is considered by the % of the population spending greater than 10% of the household income on health costs, the % of the population living in poverty and the estimated monthly cost of living for a single person.
Data on pollution, air pollution, noise and light pollution, quality of green spaces and parks, cleanliness and the estimated monthly living cost of a single person without rent were obtained from Numbeo.
Information on suicide rates per 100,000 was taken from the World Health Organisation.
LGBTQ+ safety ratings were taken from AsherFergusson and The World Bank was used for data on the poverty headcount ratio for each city.
We gave each location a normalised score out of ten for each of these factors, before taking an average across all of the factors to reach our overall stress score out of ten.
Countries
The ranking is based on cleanliness, current health expenditure per capita, cost of living, LGBTQ+ safety and suicide rates. Cleanliness includes air pollution index, noise pollution, cleanliness rating and quality of green spaces rating.
Data on pollution, air pollution, noise and light pollution, quality of green spaces and parks, cleanliness and the estimated monthly living cost of a single person without rent were obtained from Numbeo.
Information on suicide rates per 100,000 was taken from the World Health Organization.
LGBTQ+ safety ratings were taken from AsherFergusson. The current health expenditure per capita was sourced from the World Health Organization.
We gave each location a normalised score out of ten for each of these factors, before taking an average across all of the factors to reach our overall stress score out of ten.
States
The ranking is based on cleanliness, % of land made up of by state or national parks, cost of living index, LGBTQ+ population density and suicide rates. Cleanliness includes average air quality index, CO2 emissions and the number of landfills per 1,000 sq miles.
To find the average daily air quality index, the average daily AQI across all monitoring sites in each state during 2021 was taken from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The % of land comprising state or national parks was sourced from PlaygroundEquipment.
The number of landfills in each state was sourced from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the land area of each state was obtained from Wikipedia.
Information on suicide rates per 100,000 was taken from the National Center for Health Statistics.
The cost of living index for each state was sourced from the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center.
The LGBT population density in each state was sourced from the Movement Advancement Project.
The amount of CO2 gas emissions from large facilities in metric tons was sourced from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
We gave each location a normalised score out of ten for each of these factors, before taking an average across all of the factors to reach our overall stress score out of ten.
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