Official IQ Test

Take the official Worldwide IQ Test to find out your IQ score fast with our validated and culture-fair online test and compare your results against the world.

IQ Score Distribution in the United States

There are a lot of intelligent citizens living out in the United States. Our website ranks the United States in position 75 on our list of countries with the highest average intelligence quotient. The average score is 96.57, which is great!

By comparison, Canada is currently in position 48 with an average score of 99.44.

Our test currently has a global mean of 99.60 and a standard deviation of 14.98 among all the people who have challenged their cognitive abilities with our test. We aim to calibrate the test to a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 to provide every test taker with the most accurate results possible. This is a fully standardized test that is presented in exactly the same way to everyone, no matter which country they are in.

Which countries have the most intelligent people in the world? We decided to publish some of our data on a country-by-country basis to show exactly how the general intelligence of your country compares to others.

For simplicity, the symmetrical Gaussian curve has been used in the drawing of the graphs even though, in some cases, the skew-normal distribution would describe some countries' results better.

 

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The results may not reflect the country's real average IQ and intellectual ability due to the distortion present in the sample.

Most Intelligent Countries in the World in 2024

The Worldwide IQ Test website ranks the countries with the highest average IQ in the world based on our official IQ test results. By far the most intelligent countries in the world are Japan having an astonishing average IQ score of 112.30 among the test-takers, with the citizens of Hungary (111.23), Taiwan (111.20), and Italy (110.81) close behind.

World IQ

The results may not reflect the country's real average IQ due to the distortion present in the sample - not everyone in the country will have taken our IQ test. However, the results indicate which country generally has the most brilliant population on average. The cognitive ability of the test taker along with abstract reasoning skills, spatial reasoning ability, and skill at problem-solving will reveal your IQ level.

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# Country Average IQ Standard Deviation αCronbach's alpha
1. Japan 112.30 12.35 0.83
2. Hungary 111.23 14.38 0.85
3. Taiwan 111.20 11.58 0.80
4. Italy 110.81 15.90 0.86
5. South Korea 110.69 14.43 0.84
6. Serbia 110.56 16.76 0.87
7. Iran 110.15 14.08 0.84
8. Finland 109.66 18.69 0.88
9. Hong Kong 109.59 13.15 0.82
10. Vietnam 108.79 13.66 0.83
11. Slovenia 108.38 14.02 0.85
12. Turkey 107.82 17.07 0.85
13. Croatia 107.52 13.63 0.82
14. Montenegro 107.44 14.69 0.83
15. Czech Republic 107.33 14.99 0.86
16. Austria 107.18 14.86 0.85
17. Norway 106.83 18.95 0.87
18. Sweden 106.63 16.79 0.86
19. Slovakia 106.48 13.35 0.82
20. Romania 106.43 14.94 0.84
21. Switzerland 105.69 14.49 0.84
22. Cyprus 105.67 16.02 0.84
23. Israel 105.21 15.62 0.84
24. Germany 105.15 14.58 0.84
25. Greece 104.90 15.40 0.84
26. Bosnia and Herzegovina 104.66 14.19 0.80
27. Bulgaria 104.06 14.09 0.83
28. Singapore 103.95 14.60 0.84
29. Mongolia 103.00 13.21 0.79
30. Poland 102.86 15.78 0.85
31. Spain 102.71 13.87 0.83
32. Peru 102.65 13.11 0.81
33. Denmark 102.47 14.76 0.85
34. Sri Lanka 102.36 12.85 0.79
35. Netherlands 102.25 13.65 0.82
36. Luxembourg 102.20 14.45 0.80
37. Belgium 102.09 13.19 0.82
38. Malaysia 102.07 13.23 0.81
39. Macedonia 101.32 13.38 0.82
40. Syria 100.96 11.66 0.76
41. New Zealand 100.64 14.14 0.83
42. Estonia 100.56 13.15 0.83
43. France 100.37 12.96 0.81
44. Lebanon 100.02 12.42 0.81
45. Iraq 99.76 12.90 0.79
46. Belarus 99.68 12.46 0.79
World 99.60 (100) 14.98 (15) 0.83
47. Morocco 99.53 12.92 0.80
48. Canada 99.44 12.86 0.81
49. Tunisia 99.41 12.25 0.76
50. India 99.40 11.39 0.77
51. Albania 99.34 12.75 0.80
52. Portugal 99.18 12.03 0.79
53. Lithuania 98.87 14.50 0.82
54. Qatar 98.76 11.53 0.75
55. Argentina 98.69 13.87 0.83
56. Egypt 98.61 12.19 0.80
57. Ireland 98.60 11.19 0.78
58. Myanmar 98.45 9.68 0.66
59. Russia 98.38 12.29 0.80
60. Nepal 98.29 11.09 0.75
61. Georgia 98.16 12.66 0.80
62. Algeria 98.15 12.83 0.83
63. Ecuador 98.12 12.23 0.78
64. Chile 98.10 13.25 0.81
65. Australia 98.08 12.32 0.80
66. Cuba 97.72 9.86 0.80
67. United Kingdom 97.66 12.44 0.80
68. Jordan 97.57 12.62 0.80
69. Bolivia 97.37 12.14 0.81
70. Azerbaijan 97.36 12.17 0.80
71. Uruguay 97.09 12.08 0.84
72. United Arab Emirates 96.98 12.71 0.79
73. Venezuela 96.88 11.47 0.77
74. Latvia 96.76 11.83 0.76
75. United States 96.57 12.68 0.80
76. Armenia 96.57 11.61 0.81
77. Kuwait 96.55 13.18 0.80
78. Philippines 96.54 11.40 0.79
79. Moldova 96.50 11.97 0.78
80. Saudi Arabia 96.48 11.52 0.77
81. Mexico 96.28 12.67 0.82
82. Cambodia 96.27 11.42 0.73
83. Bangladesh 96.22 11.35 0.76
84. Ethiopia 95.94 10.44 0.77
85. Colombia 95.78 12.80 0.83
86. South Africa 95.66 11.78 0.79
87. Kazakhstan 95.48 11.60 0.76
88. Oman 95.29 8.99 0.69
89. Ukraine 94.94 11.70 0.76
90. Kenya 94.57 9.37 0.73
91. Cameroon 94.56 10.79 0.67
92. Brazil 94.55 12.79 0.81
93. Tajikistan 94.42 10.32 0.71
94. Costa Rica 94.31 11.42 0.81
95. Guatemala 93.98 8.43 0.76
96. Indonesia 93.95 11.03 0.74
97. Nicaragua 93.71 8.14 0.73
98. Uzbekistan 93.64 10.97 0.72
99. Pakistan 93.48 10.37 0.70
100. Nigeria 93.26 10.40 0.65
101. Dominican Republic 93.20 8.73 0.64
102. Honduras 92.94 10.18 0.72
103. Thailand 92.62 12.97 0.77
104. Kyrgyzstan 92.49 11.03 0.72
105. Panama 91.39 13.16 0.75
106. El Salvador 91.30 13.72 0.79
107. Laos 90.99 11.24 0.65
108. Angola 90.93 10.38 0.68
109. Paraguay 90.52 11.92 0.78
110. Mozambique 90.06 12.56 0.68