IQ Update 2012 - Singapore highest followed by China and Korea

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These are calculated using both formal IQ tests and the very large international student assessment tests such as the TIMSS and PISA which correlate highly with IQ. Figures in brackets were estimated from neighboring countries. Note that the scores reflect that many countries are not racially homogenous and that the average IQs of the different races in a country often differ significantly from the average country IQ.

Singapore has the highest IQ (107.1), followed by China (105.8), Hong Kong (105.7), Korea and Taiwan (both 104.6), and Japan (104.2)

Race/Population group by IQ:

East Asia: 105

European/White: 99

Arctic Natives: 91

Latino Americans: 89

Southeast Asians: 87

American Indian: 86

Pacific Islanders: 85 (Maori in New Zealand have a mean IQ of 90)

African-Americans/Black British: 85

Middle Eastern/North African: 84

South Asians: 82

Sub-Saharan Africans: 67

Australian Aborigines: 62

Pygmies: 53

A full listing of the IQ's by country here: https://lesacreduprintemps19.files....l-sciences-richard-lynn-and-tatu-vanhanen.pdf

 

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It should also be noted that this is for the 'native' populations of each population group/race (except the African-America/Black British category)

For example, Indians in India have a mean IQ of 82, but Indian-Americans have a mean IQ of around 112. Selection bias means that such immigrants are both high-IQ, and high caste, in Indian terms.

Also, the Ashkenazi Jewish IQ is around 110, the highest of any single ethnicity in the world, though the mean Jewish IQ is around 103 (due to lower IQ Mizrahim and Sephardi Jews).