Average natural gas prices have been flattish:
Average oil prices are up:
Besides, Russia is a vast storehouse of native talent. Where is Russia's Huawei? Where is Russia's Alibaba? Why isn't Tupolev shaking up the world of civilian aviation? Why hasn't it given Bombardier and Embraer a run for their money? Why is Russia a glorified petrostate? Russians have a 10 IQ point advantage over Arabs. Why isn't that advantage showing up in Russia's industrial stats vs Arab petrostates?
Flag | Country | IQ | Population 2019 |
Singapore | 108 | 5,804,337 | |
Hong Kong | 108 | 7,436,154 | |
South Korea | 106 | 51,225,308 | |
Japan | 105 | 126,860,301 | |
China | 105 | 1,433,783,686 | |
Taiwan | 104 | 23,773,876 | |
Italy | 102 | 60,550,075 | |
Iceland | 101 | 339,031 | |
Mongolia | 101 | 3,225,167 | |
Switzerland | 101 | 8,591,365 | |
Luxembourg | 100 | 615,729 | |
Norway | 100 | 5,378,857 | |
Austria | 100 | 8,955,102 | |
Netherlands | 100 | 17,097,130 | |
United Kingdom | 100 | 67,530,172 | |
Estonia | 99 | 1,325,648 | |
Finland | 99 | 5,532,156 | |
Sweden | 99 | 10,036,379 | |
Belgium | 99 | 11,539,328 | |
Canada | 99 | 37,411,047 | |
Poland | 99 | 37,887,768 | |
Germany | 99 | 83,517,045 | |
Andorra | 98 | 77,142 | |
Latvia | 98 | 1,906,743 | |
Denmark | 98 | 5,771,876 | |
Hungary | 98 | 9,684,679 | |
Czech Republic | 98 | 10,689,209 | |
Australia | 98 | 25,203,198 | |
Spain | 98 | 46,736,776 | |
France | 98 | 65,129,728 | |
United States | 98 | 329,064,917 | |
Malta | 97 | 440,372 | |
Belarus | 97 | 9,452,411 | |
Ukraine | 97 | 43,993,638 | |
Russia | 97 | 145,872,256 | |
Slovenia | 96 | 2,078,654 | |
Uruguay | 96 | 3,461,734 | |
Moldova | 96 | 4,043,263 | |
Slovakia | 96 | 5,457,013 | |
Israel | 95 | 8,519,377 | |
Portugal | 95 | 10,226,187 | |
Armenia | 94 | 2,957,731 | |
Georgia | 94 | 3,996,765 | |
Kazakhstan | 94 | 18,551,427 | |
Romania | 94 | 19,364,557 | |
Vietnam | 94 | 96,462,106 | |
Bulgaria | 93 | 7,000,119 | |
Argentina | 93 | 44,780,677 | |
Ireland | 92 | 4,882,495 | |
Greece | 92 | 10,473,455 | |
Malaysia | 92 | 31,949,777 | |
Brunei | 91 | 433,285 | |
Cyprus | 91 | 1,198,575 | |
Lithuania | 91 | 2,759,627 | |
Sierra Leone | 91 | 7,813,215 | |
Cambodia | 91 | 16,486,542 | |
Thailand | 91 | 69,625,582 | |
Albania | 90 | 2,880,917 | |
Bosnia And Herzegovina | 90 | 3,301,000 | |
Croatia | 90 | 4,130,304 | |
Kyrgyzstan | 90 | 6,415,850 | |
Chile | 90 | 18,952,038 | |
Turkey | 90 | 83,429,615 | |
Suriname | 89 | 581,372 | |
Mauritius | 89 | 1,269,668 | |
Costa Rica | 89 | 5,047,561 | |
Laos | 89 | 7,169,455 | |
Serbia | 89 | 8,772,235 | |
Samoa | 88 | 197,097 | |
Ecuador | 88 | 17,373,662 | |
Mexico | 88 | 127,575,529 | |
Nauru | 87 | 10,756 | |
Guyana | 87 | 782,766 | |
Turkmenistan | 87 | 5,942,089 | |
Tajikistan | 87 | 9,321,018 | |
Azerbaijan | 87 | 10,047,718 | |
Bolivia | 87 | 11,513,100 | |
Uzbekistan | 87 | 32,981,716 | |
Iraq | 87 | 39,309,783 | |
Myanmar | 87 | 54,045,420 | |
Brazil | 87 | 211,049,527 | |
Indonesia | 87 | 270,625,568 | |
Seychelles | 86 | 97,739 | |
Tonga | 86 | 104,494 | |
Kuwait | 86 | 4,207,083 | |
Philippines | 86 | 108,116,615 | |
Kiribati | 85 | 117,606 | |
Fiji | 85 | 889,953 | |
Trinidad And Tobago | 85 | 1,394,973 | |
Eritrea | 85 | 3,497,117 | |
Cuba | 85 | 11,333,483 | |
Yemen | 85 | 29,161,922 | |
Peru | 85 | 32,510,453 | |
Marshall Islands | 84 | 58,791 | |
Micronesia | 84 | 113,815 | |
Vanuatu | 84 | 299,882 | |
Belize | 84 | 390,353 | |
Solomon Islands | 84 | 669,823 | |
Panama | 84 | 4,246,439 | |
Paraguay | 84 | 7,044,636 | |
United Arab Emirates | 84 | 9,770,529 | |
Jordan | 84 | 10,101,694 | |
Venezuela | 84 | 28,515,829 | |
Saudi Arabia | 84 | 34,268,528 | |
Morocco | 84 | 36,471,769 | |
Afghanistan | 84 | 38,041,754 | |
Uganda | 84 | 44,269,594 | |
Colombia | 84 | 50,339,443 | |
Iran | 84 | 82,913,906 | |
Nigeria | 84 | 200,963,599 | |
Pakistan | 84 | 216,565,318 | |
Bahrain | 83 | 1,641,172 | |
Oman | 83 | 4,974,986 | |
Libya | 83 | 6,777,452 | |
Papua New Guinea | 83 | 8,776,109 | |
Tunisia | 83 | 11,694,719 | |
Syria | 83 | 17,070,135 | |
Algeria | 83 | 43,053,054 | |
Lebanon | 82 | 6,855,713 | |
Dominican Republic | 82 | 10,738,958 | |
Zimbabwe | 82 | 14,645,468 | |
Madagascar | 82 | 26,969,307 | |
Bangladesh | 82 | 163,046,161 | |
India | 82 | 1,366,417,754 | |
Maldives | 81 | 530,953 | |
Nicaragua | 81 | 6,545,502 | |
Honduras | 81 | 9,746,117 | |
Egypt | 81 | 100,388,073 | |
Barbados | 80 | 287,025 | |
Bhutan | 80 | 763,092 | |
El Salvador | 80 | 6,453,553 | |
Kenya | 80 | 52,573,973 | |
Guatemala | 79 | 17,581,472 | |
Zambia | 79 | 17,861,030 | |
Sri Lanka | 79 | 21,323,733 | |
Qatar | 78 | 2,832,067 | |
Nepal | 78 | 28,608,710 | |
Comoros | 77 | 850,886 | |
South Africa | 77 | 58,558,270 | |
Cape Verde | 76 | 549,935 | |
Mauritania | 76 | 4,525,696 | |
Senegal | 76 | 16,296,364 | |
Namibia | 74 | 2,494,530 | |
Mali | 74 | 19,658,031 | |
Ghana | 73 | 30,417,856 | |
Tanzania | 72 | 58,005,463 | |
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines | 71 | 110,589 | |
Jamaica | 71 | 2,948,279 | |
Central African Republic | 71 | 4,745,185 | |
Sudan | 71 | 42,813,238 | |
Antigua And Barbuda | 70 | 97,118 | |
Botswana | 70 | 2,303,697 | |
Togo | 70 | 8,082,366 | |
Benin | 70 | 11,801,151 | |
Rwanda | 70 | 12,626,950 | |
Burundi | 69 | 11,530,580 | |
Malawi | 69 | 18,628,747 | |
Niger | 69 | 23,310,715 | |
Ethiopia | 69 | 112,078,730 | |
Djibouti | 68 | 973,560 | |
Somalia | 68 | 15,442,905 | |
Chad | 68 | 15,946,876 | |
Burkina Faso | 68 | 20,321,378 | |
Angola | 68 | 31,825,295 | |
Saint Kitts And Nevis | 67 | 52,823 | |
Dominica | 67 | 71,808 | |
Guinea Bissau | 67 | 1,920,922 | |
Lesotho | 67 | 2,125,268 | |
Liberia | 67 | 4,937,374 | |
Haiti | 67 | 11,263,077 | |
Guinea | 67 | 12,771,246 | |
Gabon | 64 | 2,172,579 | |
Cameroon | 64 | 25,876,380 | |
Mozambique | 64 | 30,366,036 | |
Saint Lucia | 62 | 182,790 | |
Equatorial Guinea | 59 | 1,355,986 |
An intelligent critique of IQ as a measure of personal success is given by Black Swan author, Nassim Taleb in the essay:
All the lowest IQ’s are in Africa? That racist just because it’s true!
Thanks for your excellent charts.
I know it takes extra effort and time to locate them and post them, and I appreciate that.
I only watch natural gas prices in the USA, so I did not realize how much higher they are internationally.
I also had a complete black out on high oil prices from 2010 to 2015 - probably because my Exxon stock has been going down for almost 5 years.
The IQ chart is very interesting.
Just this afternoon I read a long report on a discrimination lawsuit brought against Harvard by Asian students.
Harvard won the case, but it was forced to release a lot of a data I’m sure they did not want in the public domain.
For instance - intellectual ability. The percentage of applicants who were ranked in the highest category was:
Asian applicants - 60%
White applicants - 46%
Hispanic applicants - 17%
Black applicants - 9%