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Average IQ by Country, 2026
World Population Review ^ | 1-15-26 | Staff

Posted on 01/15/2026 1:56:49 PM PST by MarlonRando

A chart for 2026 showing the average IQ of the nations.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldpopulationreview.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: iq
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I don’t believe any of the numbers that ever come out of China. Any of the numbers regarding their military or their economy or their IQ or testing scores any of that. Their numbers are always phony. I won’t believe that they’ve given IQ test to all billion people in their country, including The millions upon millions upon millions of illiterate farmers. That being said, intelligence varies from group to group. I’m not really a huge fan of Chinese intelligence. It doesn’t do anything for me. It’s not really creative. I will admit, however, that they’ve managed to hold the civilization together for thousands of years. The fact that China and Japan and Korea are primarily Monolithic when it comes to genes, I think that’s the secret to their high average scores. In the United States, there’s so much blending with people that come from lower scoring countries. That drags our score down into the gutter.
1 posted on 01/15/2026 1:56:49 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando

That’s pretty impressive for the US considering how many dopes there are running around in Minnesota and the big cities.


2 posted on 01/15/2026 2:00:49 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

I know. A testimony to how many bright people are still wandering around to make up for all of the others. Although honestly, I don’t know if IQ testing is very popular in the United States anymore. I think it’s pretty much taboo, for obvious reasons. You don’t want half of your population Walking around thinking they’re basically retarded.


3 posted on 01/15/2026 2:02:18 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Somalia 67.7


4 posted on 01/15/2026 2:02:18 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: MarlonRando

I’d like to see demographic data behind this


5 posted on 01/15/2026 2:03:09 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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I don’t believe any of the numbers that ever come out of China.

100% correct

NO ONE just goes into China to do a survey or test on the local population. Never gonna happen without top-down CCP, approval, control and input. The CCP is more than happy to engage and use all these UN/Multi-lateral organizations, but on their terms.

It's like those reports we constantly see about high school math scores across nations. China is happy to participate. The local cadres will make sure the top schools in Shanghai and Beijing are included. No chance for embarrassment.

6 posted on 01/15/2026 2:03:12 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Jeff Chandler

I am throwing the BS Flag. These map numbers are off by 25 points in India and China.


7 posted on 01/15/2026 2:03:31 PM PST by MMusson ( )
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To: MMusson

I put India in the same boat as China. I mean just the logistics of testing over 1 billion people, that’s just not going to happen especially when most of them are completely impoverished living in impoverished areas. IQ testing is something that you do when you have a lot of time on your hands, and they’re just busy trying to feed themselves.


8 posted on 01/15/2026 2:05:16 PM PST by MarlonRando
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Somalia 67.7

They were able to scam us.

So maybe we are the morons.

9 posted on 01/15/2026 2:05:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

White liberals are the stupidest people on the planet.


10 posted on 01/15/2026 2:06:27 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Iran? Em. They even let people in to test? They gave their own score?


11 posted on 01/15/2026 2:06:47 PM PST by stanne
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To: MarlonRando

China based firm completed this research.

IQ and education - Two sides of the same coin. NOT!! Go back and think this through before you hit ‘print’.

I thought that Togo was in the Pacific?


12 posted on 01/15/2026 2:07:27 PM PST by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: MarlonRando

I would have thought that Sweden’s and Israel’s numbers would be higher. And I would have thought that South Korea and Japan would be #1 and #2.


13 posted on 01/15/2026 2:08:57 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: MarlonRando

I took an IQ test once in Reader’s Digest magazine and my sister did the same, beat me by two points.


14 posted on 01/15/2026 2:09:12 PM PST by kawhill (I'll start...the sweeter wind is finally found)
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To: stanne

just for the people I’ve met in my life from Iran. I would say they’re actually fairly intelligent.


15 posted on 01/15/2026 2:09:14 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MinorityRepublican

They list Palestine. What the hell is Palestine?

And the Marshall Islands. The Marshallese are all in North West Arkansas. We contaminated their country. Who is there taking these tests?


16 posted on 01/15/2026 2:09:41 PM PST by Celerity
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To: MarlonRando

Somalia 67.7. That is on retarded level


17 posted on 01/15/2026 2:10:38 PM PST by albie
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To: MarlonRando

I tend toward the “Idiocracy” prediction.


18 posted on 01/15/2026 2:11:19 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Jeff Chandler

Somalia at 67.7…”typically scoring below 70 on an IQ test, indicating difficulties with reasoning, problem-solving, and learning”


19 posted on 01/15/2026 2:11:40 PM PST by albie
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To: MarlonRando

United States: 99.7
India: 99.1
Israel: 99.1
*Homeschoolers: 110

*jk


20 posted on 01/15/2026 2:11:49 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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