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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: intelligence; iq
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To: MarlonRando

Of course they are. They’re much more intelligent than any other country along with china? They’re over there killing each other to get a 50 year old corrupt regime out

They had time to stop and check and be honest about how intelligent their people are? I’d like to hear an explanation of or any evidence that the Iranian regime cares or how they actually want their people to be smart

What? They have a great diet? Wonderful early childhood nurturing programs? They do regular intelligence testing? Theyre intelligent enough to contribute to the worlds’ fortune? How? They’re the constant trouble makers.
They are particularly honest about their testing results? They test at all? They let this group, whoever they are, in to test them?

Ok ya they’re the most intelligent people along with the Chinese who reported very honestly on their findings. The Chinese don’t even let their kids play sports. They have no siblings. You meet Chinese kids in an American university - they’re all over the place there- and chat with them. Ask them a normal question what do your siblings do. Everyone stops. They look at each other. Oh yeah. No siblings. That’s intelligent right? That breeds intelligence. To be wandering around the house or with strangers in a day care. No cousins


41 posted on 01/15/2026 2:28:05 PM PST by stanne
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To: jimwatx

The left has been trying to bury and ban that stuff wherever they find it—and cancel anyone who dares write about it—but they are fighting a losing battle.

Information wants to be free—and genetics just will not quit.


42 posted on 01/15/2026 2:30:02 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: MarlonRando

Imagine how much higher America’s average IQ was in 1965 before democrats and RINOs
started loading us up with the Third World’s morons, ignoramuses, criminals and insane.

The white percentage of the U.S. population in 1965 was 84%.

The projected white percentage of the U.S. population for 2025 Is 57.7% and still declining every year.

AVERAGE IQ BY COUNTRY TODAY

Japan IQ - 106

The United States IQ - 99.7

Afghanistan IQ - 82.1

Haiti IQ 82.1

Jamaica IQ - 75.1

Somalia IQ - 67.7


43 posted on 01/15/2026 2:30:21 PM PST by Iron Munro (Pamela Geller: Where Islam dominates democracy and non-muslims perish.)
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To: MarlonRando

Such data might seem interesting at first, but it reality in has no practical value. To the contrary, it’s quite divisive. It can only cause friction.

Hungary: 99.5
Romania: 96.3

I picked that pair on purpose, as I am of Hungarian descent. And Hungary has long-standing territorial disputes with Romania. Should I use those numbers to keep the wound open?


44 posted on 01/15/2026 2:30:22 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“We’re now dropping by the year.”
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Research Confirms It: We Really Are Getting Dumber
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/research-confirms-it-really-are-getting-dumber.htm

IQ has been going downhill since 1975 and they’re not sure why.


45 posted on 01/15/2026 2:30:46 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: BradyLS

So if “politics/government” affects average IQ, how did our governments get to be so good that the average IQ in Europe and the old United States (meaning pre-1965) got to be so high?

Don’t you have the cart before the horse?

IQ is mostly genetic. The environment part - intense schooling, challenging problems - come from high IQ populations creating such a world. From that comes even more intelligent people.


46 posted on 01/15/2026 2:32:59 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: jimwatx

It should be obvious: Importing from “low-skill” countries, completely trashing our educational system, now losing formative minds to tech, and, as I suggested, paying the nonviable to reproduce. Oh, wait, there’s more: fluoride and other poisonings of our children.


47 posted on 01/15/2026 2:33:14 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: stanne

IQ measures what it measures.

It does not measure initiative or common sense or street smarts or social skills or a bunch of other stuff.

It mostly measures the ability to process and retain and repeat and analyze information.

That is particularly helpful in an academic environment—and in many (not all) workplace environments.

The debate about what measures “intelligence” is endless—and no doubt many books have been written on the subject.


48 posted on 01/15/2026 2:33:25 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: jimwatx

Genetics counts more than anything. your genes code for making proteins, and so they literally build you from the ground up. The brain is a energy hog, and so diet and good nutrition also plays a huge role, probably more than your environment. As you get older exercise is also important to keep the blood flowing.


49 posted on 01/15/2026 2:33:48 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MinorityRepublican
Bingo! Somali's are driving expensive cars and homes, without working hard 🙄🙄 or working at all.
50 posted on 01/15/2026 2:33:53 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship! .... Bhagavad Geeta)
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To: cgbg

those tests, though, predict with great accuracy, success in life


51 posted on 01/15/2026 2:34:30 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando
Trolling to find the most egregriously stupid shit in hopes of misdirecting honest Freeper energy.

A site no one has ever heard of, a site that pulls their data via UN data, World Bank, Columbia University, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Who the fuck do you think you are fooling?

52 posted on 01/15/2026 2:34:33 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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To: MarlonRando

Sierra Leone : 45.1


53 posted on 01/15/2026 2:34:47 PM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: CaptainK
Somalia 67.7

I imagine the planning for that fraud went something like this:

"Look, we're bringing you people to America, but we want something in return."
"I don't understand."

"We're going to set you up with some business, really just paperwork, and we can split the money, 80/20. Most of it will fund our political campaigns."
"I don't understand."

"It's simple. Come to America. We will give you money. We get money too. Everybody's happy."
"I don't understand."

"You like money?"
"Money?"

"I give you money."
"Okay. I guess."

54 posted on 01/15/2026 2:35:42 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: MarlonRando
You don’t want half of your population Walking around thinking they’re basically retarded.

Even though we know they really are.

Remember when our government schools used to jump the smart kids up a grade or two and fail to pass the low performers?

They can't / won't do that anymore because it might hurt the feelings of the lowest performers and piss off the libtard white Karens.


55 posted on 01/15/2026 2:36:03 PM PST by Iron Munro (Pamela Geller: Where Islam dominates democracy and non-muslims perish.)
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To: MarlonRando

Correct—and that is because those analytical skills are a big advantage to those who have them—and lack of those skills makes modern life tough sledding.


56 posted on 01/15/2026 2:36:44 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: ek_hornbeck
The average US IQ would be much higher if it weren’t for the black population, which has an average IQ in the 80s. This accounts for why most European countries have a mean IQ a few points higher than ours (though their average IQ is dropping too thanks to immigration from Africa and the Middle East).

There’s not one majority black, black-run country on the face of the earth that is prosperous and modern. Most of a huge, resource-rich continent to themselves and nothing to show for it. The only vestiges of any civilization are holdovers from their colonization by Europeans.

I truly don’t like having to say that, because of course there are many normal, responsible, very nice black people in the world (though mostly living in western countries that already have advanced civilizations), and in God’s eyes none of us is more valuable than any other. But there’s just no escaping the glaring problem of black-perpetrated violence throughout the world, as well as the fact that for some reason all of those black nations in Africa never advanced their civilizations one inch over thousands of years.

I think primitive pagan religions have a LOT to do with it, just as true progress in western countries would not have occurred without Christianity. But there has to be more to it than just that. Look at the Asian countries, for example. Japan, in particular, has the cleanest, safest, most orderly culture on Earth, yet is mostly Shinto or Buddhist, with many of no faith as well. Japan does have problems, though. Mostly the lack of a sense of personal identity and worth, beyond just a role as a cog in the collective. I think that’s why Christianity is growing now in Japan.

I don’t know, just thinking out loud. I truly don’t think of myself as inherently superior to anyone else on Earth as far as intrinsic worth, but the more we see black thugs committing heinous crimes at rates far in excess of their percentage of the population, and doing it not only in the U.S., but in any country where a significant number of them reside, I just get angry that no one wants to address head-on the obvious problem. Those of us who live responsible lives, non-criminal blacks included, shouldn’t have to feel cowed into ignoring the blatant reality. You can’t solve a problem until you admit what is causing it.

57 posted on 01/15/2026 2:38:12 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: MarlonRando
You are so full of shit.


58 posted on 01/15/2026 2:38:45 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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To: MarlonRando

Asian kids are pushed to study harder longer and get great grades ... Meanwhile, US kids are pushed to find their gender identity & use correct pronouns ...


59 posted on 01/15/2026 2:39:04 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cgbg

Well that adds to my question.


60 posted on 01/15/2026 2:39:15 PM PST by stanne
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