Smartest Countries Around the World
Smartness is not always an easy thing to do we know Einstein was smart but he was the man that told us education starts once you've forgotten what you learned in school the undeniably wittyand wise American writer and social critic Mark Twain hardly had any formal education at all and we know that smart entrepreneurs that make millions are not always academically minded you could have a very high IQ and still fail in matters of work marriage survival from day to day so on that rationale.
how do we judge smart? and how on earth can we say a country is smart? well! with a bit of Education data and other resources we were able to draw some conclusions welcome to this episode of the infographic show smartest countries around the world.
So we could just look at IQ and Hong Kong would be top according to one resource followed by South Korea Japan Taiwan and Singapore but let's focus on the latest report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development or oacd
which takes test results into account and gives each country a score osed bases its results on what it calls the Pisa or program for International Student Assessment which tests fifteen-year-old students around the world in math reading and science each country gets a ranking for each subject but everything is tallied up and so there is an overall score we will look at that overall score and also how each country did in each category let us begin
20• the United Kingdom the UK scored highest in science overall coming in 15th place for math and reading it was outside of the top 20.
19•Austria the BBC reports that even though Austria gets 19th place overall the only time it makes the top 20 for a category is when it gets 20th place for math with a score of 497 .
18•slovenia slovenian did well overall getting 14th place in math with a score of 5/10 14th place in reading with a score of 505 and 13th place in science with a score of 513 taking that into account it seems Slovenia should be higher than 18th all we can do is tell you what the sources say.
17• New Zealand the Kiwis claimed 20th place in math with a score 495 10th place in reading with a score of 509 and 12th place in science with a score of 513 we should note here that some country scored the same in some subjects.
16•Belgium Belgium achieved a score of 507 and math making it 15th place in science the country got 20th place in reading with a score of 499 and 20th place in science with a score 502
15•Ireland the Irish claimed 18th placed in math with a score of 504 a pretty good fifth place in reading with a score of 521 and 19th place in science with a score of 503 .
14•Australia the Aussies took the 15th spot but didn't even make the top 20 in math but they did come on strong and reading at 16th place with a score of 503 and even better in science claiming the 14th spot with a score of 510.
13•Germany Germany claimed 16th place in math with a score of 506 11th place in reading with a score of 509 and 16th place in science with again a score of 509.
12•Vietnam Vietnam scored the same as New Zealand in math so it can also lay claim to the 20th spot the country wasn't close to the top 20 in reading but in science Vietnam can be proud of taking the 8th spot with a score of 525.
11•Poland the polls were just behind the Germans in math in 17th place with a score of 504 in reading the country came in 13th with a score of 506 and in science it was just out of a top-20.
10.• Canada Canada was pretty good all around achieving 10th place in math with a score of 516 a superb joint second place in reading with a score of 5 27 and 7 place in science with a score of 528.
9•the Netherlands the Dutch claimed 9th in math with a score of 5:12 15th place in reading with a score of 503 and 17th and science with a score of 509 we might ask here again why Canada is placed behind the Dutch besides this the rankings seemed to hold up.
8•Switzerland the Swiss came 8th in math with a score of 521 the country wasn't in the top 20 for reading and in science it came in 18th with a score of 506 number.
7•Estonia the Estonians were a point behind the Swiss in math in ninth place but claimedplace in reading with a score of 519 in science the country was placed in a commendable third place with a score of 530.
6• Finland Finland got 13th place in math with a score of 511 4th place and reading with a score of 526 and 5th place in science with a score of 531.
5•Taiwan Taiwan was actually given joint fifth place with Japan overall it claimed fourth and math with a score of 542 but didn't make the top 20 for reading that didn't matter much as the Taiwanese claimed fourth in science with a score of 532.
4•Japan so Japan was actually given the same overall score as Taiwan but in math the country claimed fifth place with a score of 532 in reading it claimed eighth place with a score of 516 and in science Japan got an impressive second place with a score of 538.
3•South Korea following this Asian trend South Korea did well overall in math the country placed seventh with a score of 524 in reading it claimed the seventh spot again with a score of 517 and in science it was placed 11th with a score of 516.
2• Hong Kong Hong Kong claimed second place in math with a score 548 in reading it took the second spot again with a score 527 and in science 9th place with a score of 523.
1•Singapore beat every country in every category it was first in math with the score 564 way higher than any other country first in reading with a score of 535 and first in science with a score of 556 again way above 2nd place you might note that these scores reflect the average IQ scores. These scores don't necessarily mean Singapore is full of little geniuses but rather that students there on average are certainly good at taking tests one thing left off the tests is creativity and without that you are missing a key element in success but it's not something that is easy to assess either in the case of how countries were ranked overall if some of those rankings don't seem right we suggest you just at each individual subject whether you're the smartest person in the world.
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