Seasonal and annual mean wind-stress values on the world ocean have been recomputed from wind data compilations that have become available since Hidaka's 1958 computations. The newer data have the advantage of including wind-speed frequency distributions, and are geographically more extensive. The annual latitudinal mean zonal stresses of this study agree rather well with the stresses deducible from Buch's Northern Hemisphere momentum transports for 1950.