Look at the top 6 countries! All Asian. The first entry from a non-Asian country, Finland, is over 3 points behind. Plenty of the usual suspects here but props to Liechtenstein (10th) and Mongolia (12th) for outperforming all expectations.
Ranking | Country | Average IQ |
1 | Singapore | 107.1 |
2 | China | 105.8 |
3 | Hong Kong | 105.7 |
4 | South Korea | 104.6 |
4 | Taiwan | 104.6 |
6 | Japan | 104.2 |
7 | Finland | 100.9 |
8 | Canada | 100.4 |
8 | Netherlands | 100.4 |
10 | Liechtenstein | 100.3 |
11 | Switzerland | 100.2 |
12 | Mongolia | 100 |
13 | Macao | 99.9 |
14 | Estonia | 99.4 |
15 | Belgium | 99.3 |
16 | Australia | 99.2 |
17 | UK | 99.1 |
18 | Austria | 99 |
19 | Czech Republic | 98.9 |
19 | New Zealand | 98.9 |
21 | Germany | 98.8 |
22 | Sweden | 98.6 |
22 | Iceland | 98.6 |
24 | France | 98.1 |
24 | Hungary | 98.1 |
Children are the future and it's clear the future belongs to the 4-letter continent, with the top 5 countries being Asian. It's clear this represents a major shift in global intellectual power: as time goes by, we're going to see proportionally more innovation from the East, with Western ideas not dominating as they have done before.
Russia represents Europe in 6th whilst its neighbour Kazakhstan, hitherto famous only for Borat and being annexed by the Soviet Union, smashes expectations with the 9th smartest schoolchildren in the world. Could this be the rise of a new intellectual superpower? ALL HAIL THE KAZAKHS.
Ranking | Country | % of Students Achieving Advanced Scores |
1 | Singapore | 71.37 |
2 | South Korea | 66.85 |
3 | Hong Kong | 66.66 |
4 | Taiwan | 63.21 |
5 | Japan | 58.01 |
6 | Russia | 38.46 |
7 | China | 38.27 |
8 | Macao | 37.02 |
9 | Kazakhstan | 32.64 |
10 | Liechtenstein | 32.06 |
11 | Switzerland | 31.93 |
12 | Ireland | 30.03 |
13 | US | 29.84 |
14 | Hungary | 29.40 |
15 | Israel | 29.19 |
16 | Belgium | 28.76 |
17 | Estonia | 27.97 |
18 | Denmark | 27.51 |
18 | Portugal | 27.51 |
20 | Norway | 27.49 |
21 | Poland | 26.83 |
22 | Lithuania | 25.47 |
23 | Finland | 25.29 |
24 | Netherlands | 25.15 |
25 | Cyprus | 25.02 |
Western countries tend to dominate here, the Nobel being a Western institution and all. Only Japan (6th), Israel (15th), India (18th), South Africa (18th) and China (21st) fall outside of this bracket. Expect radical shifts as Asia catches up in the coming years.
Ranking | Country | Number of Nobel Prizes |
1 | USA | 368 |
2 | UK | 132 |
3 | Germany | 107 |
4 | France | 62 |
5 | Sweden | 30 |
6 | Japan | 26 |
6 | Switzerland | 26 |
8 | Russia | 23 |
8 | Canada | 23 |
10 | Austria | 21 |
11 | Netherlands | 20 |
11 | Italy | 20 |
13 | Denmark | 14 |
14 | Norway | 13 |
15 | Australia | 12 |
15 | Poland | 12 |
15 | Israel | 12 |
18 | Belgium | 10 |
18 | India | 10 |
18 | South Africa | 10 |
21 | China | 9 |
21 | Hungary | 9 |
23 | Spain | 8 |
24 | Ireland | 7 |
25 | Czech Republic | 5 |
25 | Argentina | 5 |
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