Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ

Including Additional Material
on high Jewish, Chinese and Indian IQs

1      Afghanistan     83 2      Albania     90 3      Algeria     84 4      Angola     69 5      Antigua & Barbuda     75 6      Argentina     96 7      Armenia     93 8      Australia     98 9     Austria     102 10   Azerbaijan     87 11     Bahamas     78 12     Bahrain     83 13     Bangladesh     81 14     Barbados     78 15     Belarus     96 16     Belgium     100 17     Belize     83 18     Benin     69 19     Bhutan     78 20     Bolivia     85 21     Botswana     72 22     Brazil     87 23     Brunei     92 24     Bulgaria     93 25     Burkina Faso     66 26     Burma (Myanmar)     86 27     Burundi     70 28     Cambodia     89 29     Cameroon     70 30    Canada     97 31     Cape Verde     78 32     Central African Rep.     68 33     Chad     72 34     Chile     93 35     China     100 36     Colombia     88 37     Comoros     79 38     Congo (Braz)   73 39     Congo (Zaire)  65 40     Costa Rica     91 41     Côte d’Ivoire 42     Croatia     90 43     Cuba     85 44     Cyprus     92 45     Czech Republic     97 46     Denmark     98 47     Djibouti     68 48     Dominica     75 49     Dominican Republic     84 50     Ecuador     80 51     Egypt     83 52     El Salvador     84 53     Equatorial Guinea     59 54     Eritrea     68 55     Estonia     97 56     Ethiopia     63 57     Fiji     84 58     Finland     97 59     France     98 60     Gabon     66 61     Gambia     64 62     Georgia     93

63     Germany     102 64     Ghana     71 65     Greece     92 66     Grenada     75 67     Guatemala     79 68     Guinea     63 69     Guinea-Bissau     63 70     Guyana     84 71     Haiti     72 72     Honduras     84 73     Hong Kong     107 74     Hungary     99 75     Iceland     98 76     India     81 77     Indonesia     89 78     Iran     84 79     Iraq     87 80     Ireland     93 81     Israel     94 82     Italy     102 83     Jamaica     72 84     Japan     105 85     Jordan     87 86     Kazakhstan     93 87     Kenya     72 88     Kiribati     84 89     Korea, North     105 90     Korea, South     106 91     Kuwait     83 92     Kyrgyzstan     87 93     Laos     89 94     Latvia     97 95     Lebanon     86 96     Lesotho     72 97     Liberia     64 98     Libya     84 99     Lithuania     97* 100    Luxembourg     101 101     Macedonia     93 102     Madagascar     79 103     Malawi     71 104     Malaysia     92 105     Maldives     81 106     Mali     68 107     Malta     95 108     Marshall Islands     84 109     Mauritania     73 110     Mauritius     81 111     Mexico     87 112     Micronesia     84 113     Moldova     95 114     Mongolia     98 115     Morocco     85 116     Mosambique     72 117     Namibia     72 118     Nepal     78 119     Netherlands     102 120     New Zealand     100 121     Nicaragua     84 122     Niger     67 123     Nigeria     67 124     Norway     98

125     Oman     83 126     Pakistan     81 127     Panama     84 128     Papua New Guinea     84 129     Paraguay     85 130     Peru     90 131     Philippines     86 132     Poland     99 133     Portugal     95 134     Puerto Rico     84 135     Qatar     78 136     Romania     94 137     Russia     96 138     Rwanda     70 139     Samoa (Western)     87 140     Sao Tome/Principe     59 141     Saudi Arabia     83 142     Senegal     64 143     Seychelles     81 144     Sierra Leone     64 145     Singapore     100 146     Slovakia     96 147     Slovenia     95 148     Solomon Islands     84 149     Somalia     68 150     South Africa     72 151     Spain     99 152     Sri Lanka     81 153     St. Kitts & Nevis     75 154     St. Lucia     75 155     St.Vincent/Grenadines     75 156     Sudan     72 157     Suriname     89 158     Swaziland     72 159     Sweden     101 160     Switzerland     101 161     Syria     87 162     Taiwan     104 163     Tajikistan     87 164     Tanzania     72 165     Thailand     91 166     Togo     69 167     Tonga     87 168     Trinidad & Tobago     80 169     Tunisia     84 170     Turkey     90 171     Turkmenistan     87 172     Uganda     73 173     Ukraine     96 174     United Arab Emirates     83 175     United Kingdom     100 176     United States     98 177     Uruguay     96 178     Uzbekistan     87 179     Vanuatu     84 180    Venezuela     88 181     Vietnam     96 182     Yemen     83 183     Yugoslavia     93 184     Zambia     77 185     Zimbabwe   66

With the single exception of Ashkanazi Jews (see Endnote), the “yellow races” enjoy the highest IQs in the world, with the Hong Kong Chinese scoring most (107), South Koreans (106), North Koreans (105), Japanese (105). In comparison, the average Caucasian has an IQ of 100 or less.

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – Notes  on Jewish IQ:

ASHKENAZI  JEWS: Unlike the “average” Jew in Israel whose IQ is given above as 94, the Ashkenazi Jew is said to have an average IQ of 110-115, sometimes as high as 117. This is 10 points above the Hong Kong Chinese (107), 20 points above the Canadians (97), 30 points above the Mexicans (87), and 50 points above the Nigerians (67).

“The 2005 paper “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence” by Cochran, Hardy, and Harpending, argued on the basis of inherited diseases and the peculiar economic situation of Ashkenazi Jews in medieval Europe, that Ashkenazi Jews as a group now inherit a cognitive profile that includes higher verbal and mathematical intelligence than other ethnic groups, along with lower spatial intelligence.

One observational basis for inferring that Ashkenazi Jews have high intelligence is their prevalance in intellectually demanding fields. From 1901–2010, 21.5% of Nobel prize winners were Jewish, while Jews make up a much smaller fraction of the population of the countries represented. For example, 36% of Nobel prize winners from the United States have been Jewish, while Jews make up 2.1% of the U.S. population.

G. Cochran, J. Hardy and H. Harpending additionally cite the disproportionately high percentage of Ashkenazi Chess Grandmasters and Fields Medalists in mathematics, as well as winners of the Turing Award in computer science.

Their median IQ is calculated at 117 in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (2000), published by Cambridge University Press. This is 10 points higher than the generally-accepted IQ of their closest rivals—Northeast Asians—and almost 20% higher than the global average.”

“Other researchers who study the Ashkenazim have asserted an IQ number a bit lower than 117, but all have agreed that these children of Abraham are on top of the IQ chart. Plus, contemplate this astounding tidbit: Ashkenazi “visual-spatial” test scores are typically lower than the norm; this means their abilities in the other two categories, language and math, are absolutely astounding.

Nobel Prizes: Since 1950, 29% of the awards have gone to Ashkenazim, even though they represent only 0.25% of humanity. Ashkenazi achievement in this arena is 117 times greater than their population.

Hungary in the 1930s: Ashkenazim were 6% of the population, but they comprised 55.7% of physicians, 49.2% of attorneys, 30.4% of engineers, and 59.4% of bank officers; plus, they owned 49.4% of the metallurgy industry, 41.6% of machine manufacturing, 72.8% of clothing manufacturing, and, as housing owners, they received 45.1% of Budapest rental income. Jews were similarly successful in nearby nations, like Poland and Germany.

USA (today): Ashkenazi Jews comprise 2.2% of the USA population, but they represent 30% of faculty at elite colleges, 21% of Ivy League students, 25% of the Turing Award winners, 23% of the wealthiest Americans, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors.

Israel: In 1922, this swamp and desert land was inhabited by a impoverished population of 752,000. Today there are 7,746,000 residents, with an Ashkenazi majority that have elevated it into a high-tech entrepreneurial nation with the highest per capita income in the region.”

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – The simplest explanation for the huge IQ difference between the fair-skinned Ashkenazi Jews and swarthier Jews of Semitic appearance (e.g., Sephardic Jews) is a so-called conspiracy theory known as the “Khazarian thesis”.

Popularized by Arthur Koestler in The Thirtheenth Tribe and accepted by notable Jewish scholars themselves (e.g. Prof. Shlomo Sand), this basically states that the Ashkenazi Jews are “false Jews” or aliens of an entirely different race masquerading as Semitic Jews. Originating in a region known as “Khazaria”, these Turko-Tartaric tribes converted to Judaism in the 8th century. So they were “Jews” only by religious conversion, not by blood. As such, being essentially “false Jews”, they have no historic link to the Holy Land and no Biblical claim whatever to Palestine.

KHAZARIA: ORIGINAL HOMELAND OF THE ASHKENAZI JEWS

Descended from the Khazars, a Turkic race originally from Central Asia and related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar tribes, the ancestors of the Ashkenazi “Jews” had settled in Khazaria in the Black Sea/Caspian Sea area at some point in the Dark Ages. Of wholly Asiatic origin, they became “Jews” later only by religious conversion in the 8th century. This is controversial.  Because, if true, it means that Ahhkenazi Jews have no ancestral links with the Holy Land. Abraham and Moses were NOT their ancestors. Any claim made to Palestine on Biblical grounds by Ashkenazi Jews—who comprise the bulk of Israel’s population today—would therefore be a spurious claim.

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – The Khazarian thesis of Koestler has been rejected by other notable scholars. Prof. Kevin MacDonald is one of these. He states categorically: “Modern population genetic studies show conclusively that Jews are indeed an ethnic entity and that widely dispersed Jewish groups are more similar to each other than to the peoples they have lived among for hundreds or thousands of years.” (See here).

There are two significant weaknesses with this anti-Khazarian thesis, i.e., with the idea that Ashkenazi Jews and other Jews are pretty much the same and originate from the same “Semitic” race that produced Abraham and Moses.

(1) Studies that show “genetic similarities” between Ashkenazi Jews and other widely dispersed Jewish groups do not necessarily disprove the Khazarian thesis. This is because intermarriage between the Ashkenazis and the non-Askenazi or “Semitic” Jews was frequent in Khazaria from the 8th century onward, and indeed anywhere else in the world where the fair-skinned Khazarian “Jews” (= Jews by conversion) mingled with and married the darker Semitic Jews.

(2)  The huge gap of 23 points between the IQ levels of Israeli Jews (94) and Ashkenazi Jews (117) cannot be satisfactorily explained if we believe, as MacDonald states, “that Jews are indeed an ethnic entity and that widely dispersed Jewish groups are more similar to each other than to the peoples they have lived among for hundreds or thousands of years.”

If we examine the IQs of the Northeast Asians, for example, we note that these genetically related races all have very similar IQs: Hong Kong Chinese (107), South Koreans (106), North Koreans (105), Japanese (105), Taiwanese (104), Mainland Chinese (100). None of these genetically related races is 23 points higher than any of the others, though taken as a whole they are 23 points higher than most of the African races. The conclusion is obvious: the fact that the Northeast Asians and the Africans have such a huge difference in their IQs is a proof, if any were needed, that these races are genetically unrelated.

If we take the European or Caucasian races, we note exactly the same thing: a striking similarity of IQs: Germany (102), Austria (102), Italy (102), Netherlands (102), Sweden (101), Switzerland (101), Belgium (100), UK (100), Spain (99), Hungary (99), Poland (99), France (98), Denmark (98), Norway (98).

Note that not one of these European races is 23 points higher in IQ than any of the others, though taken as a whole they are 23 pints higher than the African nations. The conclusion is again obvious: the fact that the Europeans and the Africans have such a huge difference in their IQs is a proof, if any were needed, that Europeans and Africans are genetically unrelated.

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – From this we arrive at the indisputable conclusion that a huge differences in IQ between one group and another group essentially means that the groups belong to different races. If, for example, every Caucasian nation mentioned above had similar IQs of around 100, but ONE European nation—”Ruritania”, let’s say— had an average IQ of 130, one would have to conclude that the “Ruritarians” did not, and could not, belong to the same Caucasian race as all the others.

It is this that gives credence to Koestler’s Khazarian thesis: that the Ashkenazi “Jews” are not really Jews, and that they are Jews only by conversion to Judaism.

Conclusion: The 23 point difference in IQs between Ashkenazis and non-Ashkenazis would seem to demonstrate conclusively that these people belong to entirely different races. If they belonged to the same “Semitic” race, they would follow the general rule of having similar IQs.

Speaking of anti-Semitism, Koestler was to write that it was based  “on a misapprehension shared by both the killers and their victims.”

The story of the Khazar Empire, he went on to add, gave an entirely new twist to “the distorted view that all Jews were genetically related and belonged to the same Semitic race.”

This began to look, he concluded controversially, “like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.”

UPDATE  ON  JEWISH  IQ – Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – A correspondent writes: “If we look at the Israeli national avg. for IQ, it is only 94. Prof. Lynn in Ireland is the ultimate authority on IQ differences. In a semi-private conversation at an AR conference (Feb. 2001), he said that the Jewish IQ outside of Israel is 103-104 (somewhat expected to graduate from higher education). Prof. Lynn stated: “I don’t understand why there is this push to say 110-115, by my colleagues, when there is no scientific study that proves that.”

SUMMARY

Following are the various human groups and their average IQs :

Highest : East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) – average IQ 105

High : Europeans – average IQ 100.

Mediocre : American Indians, Mestizos, American Blacks (are for 20% mixed with White genes), Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Indians, South East Asians – average IQ 85.

Low : African (full blood) Negroes – average IQ 70.

Lower : Australian Aborigines – average IQ 62

Lowest : Bushmen and Pygmies – average IQ 54.

— Supplied by Franklin Ryckaert

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ Note. It is not clear where Jews should be placed on this list, but they are definitely in the higher-than-average category, although Israeli Jews are given a “mediocre” IQ of only 94.  Conventionally, Ashkenazi Jews are allotted the highest IQs in the world at 110-115, but Professor Lynn ascribes them a lower average IQ of 103-104. (See above, ‘Update on Jewish IQ’). If correct, this would mean that Jews are slightly less intelligent on the whole than the clever East Asians, i.e., the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. (LD)

UPDATE ON INDIAN and Chinese IQ ***

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – It would appear that the “mediocre” IQ in India of 81, though applicable en masse to the population of the subcontinent as a whole, is not applicable to the closely inbred brahminical classes of Bengal and Tamil Nadu (and other such areas) which have been practicing their own highly idiosyncratic form of eugenics for centuries  These high-caste Indians  are reported to have the world’s highest IQs in the 115-120 range.

Franklin Ryckaert offers this comment:

Besides the Ashkenazi Jews with their high average IQ, another interesting group is Indian Brahmins, who have an ancient culture of learning and are strictly endogamic, which would tend to breed for intellect. There is an interesting article touching on this subject on Steve Sailer’s blog. Here the average IQ of North Indian Brahmins is estimated at 115 and that of South Indian Brahmins at 120. If that is true, they would surpass even the Ashkenazis.

LD: If the above details are correct, it would not be unreasonable to apply the same tentative logic to China, leading us to speculate that the IQ of the highly bred  Chinese scholar classes or mandarinate — the equivalent of India’s brahminical caste — may be far higher than the average Chinese IQ of 105.

Which Ethnic Group has the highest IQ – Another point worth noting, in regard to Indian IQ, is that it is hard to believe that the average IQ of Indian immigrants to Western countries is as low as 81. The average IQ of of Indian immigrants certainly equals, and often exceeds by a wide margin, the average IQ (100) of the local white population. Some of the most gifted children in British schools today have highly educated Indian parents. Moreover, even in India itself, the children of the educated classes who attend expensive boarding schools have higher-than average IQs, often going on to Oxford and Cambridge for further education.

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SOURCE OF STATISTICS:
Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by Richard Lynn