The top ten countries with the most Mensa geniuses

Scandinavia cleans up in ranking of nations with highest recorded IQ per capita

Finnish flag, Finland
Finland topped the list for the second consecutive year
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Data released by Mensa, the world's largest and oldest IQ society, has revealed which nations boast the highest proportion of members.

Mensa International was founded in 1946 at Lincoln College, Oxford, to unite people of above-average intelligence from around the world in intellectual fellowship. Membership is only open to people with an IQ in the top two percent of the population. Its stated goals are "to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity, to encourage research in the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence, and to promote stimulating intellectual and social opportunities for its members".

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