Filipinos are among the most stressed people in the world according to a global survey.
The same survey said the Philippines, along with three other countries, also topped the list of most emotional nations last year.
Asked about their feelings the previous day, Gallup’s annual Global Emotions report found 58 percent of Filipinos in 2018 to have experienced stress the day before the survey.
Last year, the Philippines was the most emotional country in Asia and the fourth in the world with 58 percent average “yes” responses to all questions.
Only Greece is more stressed than the Philippines with 59 percent of its population feeling the negative experience.
Tanzania (57 percent), Albania, Iran, Sri Lanka, and the United States of America (55 percent) ranked high on the list of world’s most stressed populations.
More than one in three people said they experienced a lot of stress (35 percent) in the survey of more than 151,000 adults in over 148 countries in 2018.
The study measures life’s intangibles—feelings and emotions—that traditional economic indicators such as GDP were never intended to capture.
A day before the poll was conducted, six in 10 Filipinos said they had experienced positive or negative emotions.
The Philippines, along with Niger, Ecuador and Liberia, had 60 percent average “yes” responses to all questions.
They were followed by Costa Rica, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Peru (59 percent), and Nicaragua, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Guatemala (58 percent).
The report also found that more than one in three people said they experienced a lot of worry (39 percent) and at least one in five experienced sadness (24 percent ) or anger (22 percent).
Chad was the most negative country in the world with a score of 54, followed by regional neighbors Niger and Sierra Leone.
Latin American countries such as Paraguay and Panama (85), Guatemala and Mexico (84) and El Salvador (83) dominated the list of countries with positive experiences.
Survey results were based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults conducted throughout 2018 in 143 countries for the Positive Experience Index and 142 countries for the Negative Experience Index.
The margin of sampling error ranged from ±2.1 to ±5.3 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.