Vouchercloud, the compilers of the annual ranking “World’s Smartest Countries”, have announced the list of cleverest states based on range of data including number of Nobel Prizes won (to represent historic intelligence), current average IQ (to represent present intelligence), and educational attainment (the intelligence of the future generation).
Consistently totaling high scores across all three categories, Japan’s Nobel Prize prowess matches its IQ score and pupil points, too. This makes sense in a country with a strong tradition of innovation and a huge emphasis on education.
Rounding out the top 3 is consistently high-performing Switzerland in 2nd and China in 3rd. China, whilst lagging behind in the Nobel rankings, more than makes up for it with the 2nd highest national IQ and the 7th highest performing school kids.
What’s really telling is how incredibly well East Asian countries score in the IQ and school tests. South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore are all in the top 4 for both, but let down by Nobel scores that drag them to 10th and below overall.
In the ranking, Russia occupied the sixth place. According to researchers, Kazakhstan has surpassed all expectations, being in ninth in the list of countries with the smartest children on the planet.
Unfortunately, Uzbekistan is nowhere to be seen in the list.
