National Distribution of Geniuses

Estimating the amount of European Geniuses

I have decided to look over the “Elite Human Capital” ranking of various European countries in an effort to maximize internal European division by arguing who is superior than who. And it is certainly a difficult undertaking, Emil Kierkegaard went over a review of the smart fraction theory and even arrived at some results yet these results were mostly related to the 95th+ percentile and the ability of that percentile to dictate politics. My undertaking is more descriptive, and focused on the absolute gigachad genius demographic which wins Nobel Prizes and troons out after watching anime.

Now, when it comes to genius, it is not “just IQ”, although it is overwhelmingly IQ. First and foremost, a genius needs an environment that is receptive to his expression, and secondly a genius, according to Jensen must posses a combination of the following three traits:

1. High general intelligence (two standard deviations above the mean)

2. High Creativity Traits (two standard deviations above the mean)

3. High Productivity (two standard deviations above the mean)

Genius = High Ability X High Productivity X High Creativity.

Given that it is very difficult, if not impossible to arrive at the last two criteria of a genius for European countries, given the low quality of the data and questionable methodology (are we looking at average amount of hours spent working? the unemployment rate?), I have focused only on the high IQ part. That said, even Jensen himself, living in the Western world, may have overlooked certain cultural or economic predispositions that foster the expression of genius.

For instance, three thousand years ago, Europeans were on average more intelligent than today, yet they clearly haven’t put it to any proper use, just as North Koreans possess one of the highest IQs in their world, yet, economically they perform on par with the lowest Sub-Saharan African countries.

Anyways, here is my methodology:

I calculated the number of individuals within a country’s population who fall into the 130 and 145 IQ ranges by combining population figures with average national IQs and applying standard statistical methods.

I have taken the most accurate national estimate of IQ developed by Emil Kierkegaard and Sebastian Jensen. It is an improved version of the highly cited Lynn’s estimate, equipped with newer data. Its correlation with national development approaches (r = .9), while Lynn’s data fluctuated between 0.64 and 0.82, depending on a year.

So when it comes to IQ averages my work certainly shines best except for few edge cases. For example, the IQ estimates were taken before the start of mass scale migration into the West following the Covid-pandemic. For example, the data for Canadian IQ was collected when Canada’s population was much smaller than it is today, and so with the recent influx of Indian Human Capital, I expect Canada’s IQ to decline to about 99-98, thus significantly downgrading their 145+IQ estimate to 40,255 people.

Similarly, some Ukrainian estimates were taken after a full scale Russian invasion after many educated Ukrainians have left the country, causing a massive brain drain and lower the average Ukrainian IQ from Lynn’s 96 to around 92.25. Other people may also be pissed that I counted the occupied Ukrainian territories for the Russian statistics. My justification is that because there is no realistic chance for Ukraine to ever get these territories back, I had to add 4 extra million people (excluding the capital of Kherson and Zaporizhia) to Russia.

The final and most evident limitation of the study lies in its reliance on a standard IQ distribution model, which renders it inadequate for capturing the outflow of human capital from countries whose elites are migrating to more developed nations just as it is difficult to account for nations with highly diverse ethnic compositions, such as Brazil and the United States.

For example, if we assume the average IQ of White Americans is 101, then the number of White Americans in the 130+ IQ (5,433,775 vs. 5,372,000) and 145+ IQ (343,186 vs. 278,800) categories surpasses the total number of Americans in these IQ ranges (for reference that would be the second number). Likewise, if America was made out of 40 million Ashkenazi Jews and 400 million Blacks, while it’s average IQ would be way below 90, the amount of people in the 130+IQ and 145+IQ category would be higher than it is in the present.

Because it is difficult to make these estimations for every nation (after spending countless hours researching the data for Israel, Russia and the United States), I made the decision to only focus on the averages, bypassing demographic clusters which somewhat distort the picture.

In any event, I present to you the work I wasted over 30 hours making! Here are the numbers:

Hope you can see the numbers! If not, here are the numbers for the 145 IQ plus cohort:

Total Rvzzian Victory. Also I forgot about Cyprus, but who cares. I won’t make any further commentary and instead present to you the raw data. If you scroll further enough, there will be more graphs.

After numerous requests, I added a per-capita map!

Albania:

Total Population: 2,854,710

Average IQ: 84.85

IQ of 130+: 3,711 people

IQ of 145+: 86 people

Armenia:

Total Population: 2,790,974

Average IQ: 88.58

IQ of 130+: 8,094 people

IQ of 145+: 251 people

Austria:

Total Population: 8,922,082

Average IQ: 98.05

IQ of 130+: 148,107people

IQ of 145+: 8,030 people

Azerbaijan:

Total Population: 10,312,992

Average IQ: 85.18

IQ of 130+: 14,438 people

IQ of 145+: 351 people

Belarus:

Total Population: 9,109,280

Average IQ: 95.64

IQ of 130+: 100,202 people

IQ of 145+: 4,555 people

Belgium:

Total Population: 11,611,419

Average IQ: 97.90

IQ of 130+: 188,105 people

IQ of 145+: 9,754 people

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Total Population: 3,422,000

Average IQ: 87.82

IQ of 130+: 8,555 people

IQ of 145+: 239 people

Bulgaria:

Total Population: 6,437,360

Average IQ: 91.30

IQ of 130+: 31,543 people

IQ of 145+: 1,094 people

Croatia:

Total Population: 4,060,135

Average IQ: 95.55

IQ of 130+: 43,443 people

IQ of 145+: 1,989 people

Cyprus:

Total Population: 1,244,188

Average IQ: 92.28

IQ of 130+: 7,341 people

IQ of 145+: 274 people

Czechia:

Total Population: 10,510,751

Average IQ: 98.25

IQ of 130+: 178,683 people

IQ of 145+: 9,460 people

Denmark:

Total Population: 6,001,008

Average IQ: 98.00

IQ of 130+: 99,617 people

IQ of 145+: 5,221 people

Estonia:

Total Population: 1,369,995

Average IQ: 101.86

IQ of 130+: 41,237 people

IQ of 145+: 2,740 people

Finland:

Total Population: 5,635,971

Average IQ: 100.86

IQ of 130+: 147,662 people

IQ of 145+: 9,018 people

France:

Total Population: 68,605,616

Average IQ: 96.83

IQ of 130+: 933,036 people

IQ of 145+: 45,280 people

Georgia:

Total Population: 3,704,506

Average IQ: 84.99

IQ of 130+: 5,001 people

IQ of 145+: 117 people

Germany:

Total Population: 83,408,554

Average IQ: 98.35

IQ of 130+: 1,451,309 people

IQ of 145+: 77,570 people

Greece:

Total Population: 10,445,365

Average IQ: 92.57

IQ of 130+: 64,761 people

IQ of 145+: 2,402 people

Hungary:

Total Population: 9,709,786

Average IQ: 97.20

IQ of 130+: 138,850 people

IQ of 145+: 6,894 people

Iceland:

Total Population: 370,335

Average IQ: 96.68

IQ of 130+: 4,888 people

IQ of 145+: 237 people

Ireland:

Total Population: 5,380,300

Average IQ: 99.10

IQ of 130+: 105,992 people

IQ of 145+: 5,918 people

Italy:

Total Population: 58,947,905

Average IQ: 96.33

IQ of 130+: 736,849 people

IQ of 145+: 34,779 people

Kazakhstan:

Total Population: 20,286,084

Average IQ: 88.64

IQ of 130+: 58,830 people

IQ of 145+: 1,724 people

Latvia:

Total Population: 1,842,226

Average IQ: 96.85

IQ of 130+: 25,054 people

IQ of 145+: 1,216 people

Liechtenstein:

Total Population: 39,039

Average IQ: 101.66

IQ of 130+: 1,148 people

IQ of 145+: 74 people

Lithuania:

Total Population: 2,897,430

Average IQ: 96.03

IQ of 130+: 34,479 people

IQ of 145+: 1,594 people

Luxembourg:

Total Population: 681,973

Average IQ: 96.47

IQ of 130+: 8,525 people

IQ of 145+: 402 people

Malta:

Total Population: 526,748

Average IQ: 92.98

IQ of 130+: 3,582 people

IQ of 145+: 137 people

Moldova:

Total Population: 2,423,300

Average IQ: 87.93

IQ of 130+: 6,301 people

IQ of 145+: 174 people

Montenegro:

Total Population: 623,327

Average IQ: 86.84

IQ of 130+: 1,247 people

IQ of 145+: 31 people

Netherlands:

Total Population: 18,360,900

Average IQ: 100.08

IQ of 130+: 427,809 people

IQ of 145+: 25,705 people

North Macedonia:

Total Population: 2,103,330

Average IQ: 83.41

IQ of 130+: 2,103 people

IQ of 145+: 42 people

Norway:

Total Population: 5,601,049

Average IQ: 97.50

IQ of 130+: 84,016 people

IQ of 145+: 4,313 people

Poland:

Total Population: 38,036,118

Average IQ: 98.19

IQ of 130+: 631,400 people

IQ of 145+: 33,091 people

Portugal:

Total Population: 10,290,103

Average IQ: 95.60

IQ of 130+: 113,191 people

IQ of 145+: 5,145 people

Romania:

Total Population: 19,064,409

Average IQ: 87.34

IQ of 130+: 43,848 people

IQ of 145+: 1,144 people

Russia:

Total Population: 150,028,325

Average IQ: 97.59

IQ of 130+: 2,310,436 people

IQ of 145+: 118,522 people

Serbia:

Total Population: 7,296,769

Average IQ: 91.15

IQ of 130+: 35,025 people

IQ of 145+: 1,167 people

Slovakia:

Total Population: 5,447,622

Average IQ: 95.93

IQ of 130+: 63,192 people

IQ of 145+: 2,942 people

Slovenia:

Total Population: 2,119,410

Average IQ: 97.72

IQ of 130+: 33,487 people

IQ of 145+: 1,717 people

Spain:

Total Population: 49,153,849

Average IQ: 95.54

IQ of 130+: 525,946 people

IQ of 145+: 24,085 people

Sweden:

Total Population: 10,467,097

Average IQ: 98.51

IQ of 130+: 187,361 people

IQ of 145+: 10,467 people

Switzerland:

Total Population: 9,060,598

Average IQ: 99.56

IQ of 130+: 192,085 people

IQ of 145+: 10,873 people

Turkey:

Total Population: 85,664,944

Average IQ: 90.16

IQ of 130+: 334,093 people

IQ of 145+: 11,136 people

Ukraine:

Total Population: 32,862,000

Average IQ: 92.25

IQ of 130+: 193,886 people

IQ of 145+: 7,230 people

United Kingdom:

Total Population: 68,265,209

Average IQ: 99.26

IQ of 130+: 1,378,957 people

IQ of 145+: 75,092 people

Total amount of 130+ IQ people by country:

Total amount of 145+ IQ people by country:

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