Average IQ for each Country

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RANK - NATION - AVERAGE IQ
1 Hong Kong 107
2 South Korea 106
3 Japan 105
4 Taiwan 104
5 Singapore 103
6 Austria 102
6 Germany 102
6 Italy 102
6 Netherlands 102
10 Sweden 101
10 Switzerland 101
12 Belgium 100
12 China 100
12 New Zealand 100
12 United Kingdom 100
16 Hungary 99
16 Poland 99
18 Australia 98
18 Denmark 98
18 France 98
18 Norway 98
18 United States 98
23 Canada 97
23 Czech Republic 97
23 Finland 97
23 Spain 97
27 Argentina 96
27 Russia 96
27 Slovakia 96
27 Uruguay 96
31 Portugal 95
31 Slovenia 95
33 Israel 94
33 Romania 94
35 Bulgaria 93
35 Ireland 93
37 Greece 92
37 Malaysia 92
39 Thailand 91
40 Croatia 90
40 Peru 90
40 Turkey 90
43 Colombia 89
43 Indonesia 89
43 Suriname 89
46 Brazil 87
46 Iraq 87
46 Mexico 87
46 Samoa 87
46 Tonga 87
51 Lebanon 86
51 Philippines 86
53 Cuba 85
53 Morocco 85
55 Fiji 84
55 Iran 84
55 Marshall Islands 84
55 Puerto Rico 84
59 Egypt 83
60 India 81
61 Ecuador 80
62 Guatemala 79
63 Barbados 78
63 Nepal 78
63 Qatar 78
66 Zambia 77
67 Congo 73
67 Uganda 73
69 Jamaica 72
69 Kenya 72
69 South Africa 72
69 Sudan 72
69 Tanzania 72
74 Ghana 71
75 Nigeria 67
76 Guinea 66
76 Zimbabwe 66
78 Democratic Republic of the Congo 65
79 Sierra Leone 64
80 Ethiopia 63
81 Equatorial Guinea 59


woooop!!!!!
Go Asia!!

Well at least the U.S is in 18th place. Much better than I was hoping.

 

[jEnus]

the south is really dragging us down, that and movie stars.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Is Honk Kong actually a nation? I thought it got rolled back into China after the treaty ran out in 99.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Me smarter than Hong Kong! Woohoo!


Not that I believe this list, those Nigerians are wily!

 

[Descartes]

I call total shens and 1000% bs. All of the poor countries with a large illiterate population are at the bottom and all those with extreme academic demands are at the top. Some might say that's ok until you acknowledge that an IQ test measures intelligence and not education/knowledge.

I'd like to see a link, but I'm guessing this was in no way a standard test like the Stanford-Binet or similar.

 

[TehMac]

Who gives a shit what some academic shit in an office compiling meaningless numbers has to say?

 

[dbk]

Singapore kinda dropped a bit

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I call total shens and 1000% bs. All of the poor countries with a large illiterate population are at the bottom and all those with extreme academic demands are at the top. Some might say that's ok until you acknowledge that an IQ test measures intelligence and not education/knowledge.

I'd like to see a link, but I'm guessing this was in no way a standard test like the Stanford-Binet or similar.

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarter?

EDIT: Spelt smarter wrong. 🙁

 

[Kev]

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[venkman]

I'M SMARTER THAN EVERY COUNTRY ON THE PLANET!!!!!!!!

thats all the proof i need to switch careers to megalomania.

 

[Kirby]

Makes sense. All the Koreans and Japs I've known were really fucking smart.




I asked you nicely to remove that derogatory term and you did not.

Enjoy your week off.


esquared
Anandtech Senior Moderator

 

[Newfie]

18 United States 98
23 Canada 97

LIES!!!!!!

 

[BALIstik916]

grr why is India so low, they have that little kid who claims he can cure cancer

 

[eits]

wouldn't the average iq for each country, by definition, be 100? 😉

 

[Imdmn04]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Descartes
I call total shens and 1000% bs. All of the poor countries with a large illiterate population are at the bottom and all those with extreme academic demands are at the top. Some might say that's ok until you acknowledge that an IQ test measures intelligence and not education/knowledge.

I'd like to see a link, but I'm guessing this was in no way a standard test like the Stanford-Binet or similar.

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarted?

Intelligence and education are two separate things, but sometimes people uses both to describe a "smart" person.

Intelligence = raw smartness, i.e. solving rubiks cube, puzzles, raw logical and analytical ability. IQ test measures this.

Educated = taught knowledge, having lots of knowledge does not necessarily mean you have a high IQ. But it does provide you a good basis for you to make your logical decision on.

The highest IQ person in the world is some bartender in Norway.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Descartes
I call total shens and 1000% bs. All of the poor countries with a large illiterate population are at the bottom and all those with extreme academic demands are at the top. Some might say that's ok until you acknowledge that an IQ test measures intelligence and not education/knowledge.

I'd like to see a link, but I'm guessing this was in no way a standard test like the Stanford-Binet or similar.

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarted?

Interesting thought, but I'd have to disagree. Smart humans are probably produced evenly throughout the world, but in third world countries they are unable to develop their gifts.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Haha, Iraq is as dumb as Mexico.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Descartes
I call total shens and 1000% bs. All of the poor countries with a large illiterate population are at the bottom and all those with extreme academic demands are at the top. Some might say that's ok until you acknowledge that an IQ test measures intelligence and not education/knowledge.

I'd like to see a link, but I'm guessing this was in no way a standard test like the Stanford-Binet or similar.

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarted?

Intelligence and education are two separate things, but sometimes people uses both to describe a "smart" person.

Intelligence = raw smartness, i.e. solving rubiks cube, puzzles, raw logical and analytical ability. IQ test measures this.

Educated = taught knowledge, having lots of knowledge does not necessarily mean you have a high IQ. But it does provide you a good basis for you to make your logical decision on.

The highest IQ person in the world is some bartender in Norway.

Err, that's what I said.

Maybe they have good education because they are smarted.

I didn't say they are smarter because they have good education.

 

[Black88GTA]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarted?

...so...how's life in Equatorial Guinea?

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarted?

...so...how's life in Equatorial Guinea?

🙁

 

[miketheidiot]

i once read (in national geographic, i think) that malaria is singularly responsible for 10 points off the average iq's of subsuharan africa countries. That said evenaverage iq's in the 80's doesn't make sense.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Imdmn04

Originally posted by: RocksteadyDotNet

Originally posted by: Descartes
I call total shens and 1000% bs. All of the poor countries with a large illiterate population are at the bottom and all those with extreme academic demands are at the top. Some might say that's ok until you acknowledge that an IQ test measures intelligence and not education/knowledge.

I'd like to see a link, but I'm guessing this was in no way a standard test like the Stanford-Binet or similar.

What if it's actually a corrolation? The reason the countrys at the top have better education and infrastructure is because they are smarted?

Intelligence and education are two separate things, but sometimes people uses both to describe a "smart" person.

Intelligence = raw smartness, i.e. solving rubiks cube, puzzles, raw logical and analytical ability. IQ test measures this.

Educated = taught knowledge, having lots of knowledge does not necessarily mean you have a high IQ. But it does provide you a good basis for you to make your logical decision on.

The highest IQ person in the world is some bartender in Norway.

Err, that's what I said.

Maybe they have good education because they are smarted.

I didn't say they are smarter because they have good education.

Having been to several third world countries on the bottom of that list, I can assure you they are not on the bottom of the list for lack of intelligence.

The archetypal example is Ramanujan, though I'd put the likes of Michael Faraday, Alfred Brendel (a largely self-taught pianist) or even Galileo in this category. They weren't destitute by any means, but their output far exceeded the capacity implied by formal education.

Or maybe I still didn't understand what you meant 🙂

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Haha, Iraq is as dumb as Mexico.

I'm not sure you could correlate this directly to Iraq, but the Arabs did give us zero, the current place-value system (from the Indians I think?), algebra and a lot of developments in geometry.

And the Mexicans gave us Al Pastor tacos. I think that's beyond genius.

 

[Ballatician]

A lot of this seems out of whack. Iraq higher than India?

Is there a link?

 

[CKent]

If only IQ meant anything... I test at 140, those who know me realizes that pretty much debunks any credibility the idea had 😛