IQ world rank by country and which are the smartest nations Author : admin In a home conversation with my wife who is Belarusian and comparison between Bulgarian and Belarusian nation, the interesting question arised - Which nation is Smarter Bulgarian or Belarusian? This little conversation pushed me to intriguing question What is the IQ World rank if compared by country? Since a moment of my life I'm trying to constantly prove to myself I'm smart enough. For years my motivation was to increase my IQ. I had periods when studied hard history, philosophy and literature then I had periods to put all my efforts in music and mysticism then there was my fascination about IT and informatics and hacking, I had periods with profound interest in Biology and neourosciences, then of course psychology and social sciences and since last 10 years as I belived in God, I'm deeply interested in world religions and more particularly in Christniaty. All this is connected with my previous IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and my desire to develop my IQ. I'm quite aware that IQ statistics can never be 100% reliable as there is deviation (standard error) and its a very general way to find out about a person psychology. But anyways it is among the few methods to compare people's intelligence... I've done an IQ test in distant 2008 and I scored about 118 out of 180 - meaning my IQ level is a little bit above average. The IQ conversation triggered my curiousity so I decided to check if my current IQ has changed over the last 6 years. Here is results from test I took March, 2013 on free-iqtest.net 1 / 15
IQtest just prooved, my IQ kept almost same, still a little bit above avarage. Further on, I did investgation online to see if I can prove to my wife the thesis Bulgarians overall IQ is higher than Belarusian. I googled for IQ world rank by Country Here is what I found ; Nations Intelligence as sorted by Country Rank -------- Country ----------------------- % ------------ - 1 Singapore 108 2 South Korea 106 3 Japan 105 4 Italy 102 5 Iceland 101 5 Mongolia 101 6 Switzerland 101 2 / 15
7 Austria 100 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary 7 China 100 7 Luxembourg 100 7 Netherlands 100 7 Norway 100 7 United Kingdom 100 8 Belgium 99 8 Canada 99 8 Estonia 99 8 Finland 99 8 Germany 99 8 New Zealand 99 8 Poland 99 8 Sweden 99 9 Andorra 98 3 / 15
9 Australia 98 9 Czech Republic 98 9 Denmark 98 9 France 98 9 Hungary 98 9 Latvia 98 9 Spain 98 9 United States 98 10 Belarus 97 10 Malta 97 10 Russia 97 10 Ukraine 97 11 Moldova 96 11 Slovakia 96 4 / 15
11 Slovenia 96 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary 11 Uruguay 96 12 Israel 95 12 Portugal 95 13 Armenia 94 13 Georgia 94 13 Kazakhstan 94 13 Romania 94 13 Vietnam 94 14 Argentina 93 14 Bulgaria 93 15 Greece 92 15 Ireland 92 15 Malaysia 92 16 Brunei 91 5 / 15
16 Cambodia 91 16 Cyprus 91 16 FYROM 91 16 Lithuania 91 16 Sierra Leone 91 16 Thailand 91 17 Albania 90 17 Bosnia and Herzegovina 90 17 Chile 90 17 Croatia 90 17 Kyrgyzstan 90 17 Turkey 90 18 Cook Islands 89 18 Costa Rica 89 6 / 15
18 Laos 89 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary 18 Mauritius 89 18 Serbia 89 18 Suriname 89 19 Ecuador 88 19 Mexico 88 19 Samoa 88 20 Azerbaijan 87 20 Bolivia 87 20 Brazil 87 20 Guyana 87 20 Indonesia 87 20 Iraq 87 20 Myanmar (Burma) 87 20 Tajikistan 87 7 / 15
20 Turkmenistan 87 20 Uzbekistan 87 21 Kuwait 86 21 Philippines 86 21 Seychelles 86 21 Tonga 86 22 Cuba 85 22 Eritrea 85 22 Fiji 85 22 Kiribati 85 22 Peru 85 22 Trinidad and Tobago 85 22 Yemen 85 23 Afghanistan 84 8 / 15
23 Bahamas, The 84 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary 23 Belize 84 23 Colombia 84 23 Iran 84 23 Jordan 84 23 Marshall Islands 84 23 Micronesia, Federated States of 84 23 Morocco 84 23 Nigeria 84 23 Pakistan 84 23 Panama 84 23 Paraguay 84 23 Saudi Arabia 84 23 Solomon Islands 84 23 Uganda 84 9 / 15
23 United Arab Emirates 84 23 Vanuatu 84 23 Venezuela 84 24 Algeria 83 24 Bahrain 83 24 Libya 83 24 Oman 83 24 Papua New Guinea 83 24 Syria 83 24 Tunisia 83 25 Bangladesh 82 25 Dominican Republic 82 25 India 82 25 Lebanon 82 10 / 15
25 Madagascar 82 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary 25 Zimbabwe 82 26 Egypt 81 26 Honduras 81 26 Maldives 81 26 Nicaragua 81 27 Barbados 80 27 Bhutan 80 27 El Salvador 80 27 Kenya 80 28 Guatemala 79 28 Sri Lanka 79 28 Zambia 79 29 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 78 29 Nepal 78 11 / 15
29 Qatar 78 30 Comoros 77 30 South Africa 77 31 Cape Verde 76 31 Congo, Republic of the 76 31 Mauritania 76 31 Senegal 76 32 Mali 74 32 Namibia 74 33 Ghana 73 34 Tanzania 72 35 Central African Republic 71 35 Grenada 71 35 Jamaica 71 12 / 15
35 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71 35 Sudan 71 36 Antigua and Barbuda 70 36 Benin 70 36 Botswana 70 36 Rwanda 70 36 Togo 70 37 Burundi 69 37 Cote d'ivoire 69 37 Ethiopia 69 37 Malawi 69 37 Niger 69 38 Angola 68 38 Burkina Faso 68 38 Chad 68 13 / 15
38 Djibouti 68 38 Somalia 68 38 Swaziland 68 39 Dominica 67 39 Guinea 67 39 Guinea-Bissau 67 39 Haiti 67 39 Lesotho 67 39 Liberia 67 39 Saint Kitts and Nevis 67 39 Sao Tome and Principe 67 40 Gambia, The 66 41 Cameroon 64 41 Gabon 64 14 / 15
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) 41 Mozambique 64 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary 42 Saint Lucia 62 43 Equatorial Guinea 59 North Korea N/A - Countries are ranked highest to lowest national IQ score. Above statistics are taken from a work carried out earlier this decade by Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish political scientist. To extract statistics they analized IQ studies from 113 countries. For my surprise it appeared Belarusian (ranking 10th in the world) have generally higher IQ than Bulgarians (ordering 14th). Anyways being 14th in world IQ Ranking is not bad at all as we still rank in the top 20 smartest nations. IQ is a relative way to measure intelligence, so I don't believe these statistics are revelant but they give some very general idea about world IQs. I learned there are some claims that in more developed economies people have higher IQs than less developed. If we take in consideration above statistics its obvious such claims are dubious as you can see there are countries in top 5 countries with highest IQ, and surely Mongolia is not to be ordered in countries with high economic development. There are plenty of other interesting researches like "Does IQ relates to people Income?", Does Religious people score higher than atheists? According to research done in U.S. Atheists score 6 IQ points higher than Religious people. However most "religous" people IQ tested were from protestant origin so results are relative (I'm sure Orthodox Christian would score higher :) ). The IQ nation world ranks fail in a way that, a social, economic and historical factors are not counted. According to Gallups research, the world poorest people tend to be the most religious, a fact supporting well the saying of all saints who say that for saintly life people who preferred deliberately to live as poor people. 15 / 15