Stress metrics

Associated Press
Published January 28, 2005

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Feeling stressed running a business? Entrepreneurs the world over share your pain, according to a survey of more than 6,300 business owners in two dozen countries.

But it's not so bad in the United States, which ranked 18th of the 24 for increased stress over the past year- far behind locales such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mexico and India.

The least stressed nation of business owners? Sweden.

The 2005 International Business Owners Survey, conducted by Grant Thornton International, noted the correlation between "high growth" economies and stress levels. Indeed, the highest stress were in countries where economic development has been expanding exponentially: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Turkey, India, the Philippines, Japan, Russia and South Africa.