Average IQ by Country, 2026

World Population Review ^ | 1-15-26 | Staff

[MarlonRando]

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

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: iq

[MarlonRando]

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.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

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

[MarlonRando]

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.

[Jeff Chandler]

Somalia 67.7

[mrmeyer]

I’d like to see demographic data behind this

[PGR88]

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.

[MMusson]

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

[MarlonRando]

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.

[MinorityRepublican]

Somalia 67.7

They were able to scam us.

So maybe we are the morons.

[dfwgator]

White liberals are the stupidest people on the planet.

[stanne]

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

[Delta 21]

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?

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[kawhill]

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

[MarlonRando]

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

[Celerity]

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?

[albie]

Somalia 67.7. That is on retarded level

[Da Coyote]

I tend toward the “Idiocracy” prediction.

[albie]

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

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

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

*jk