World's 10 Smartest Countries

Japan:

The kind of technological and scientific innovations that come from Japan, it is not hard to believe that the country ranks third in the list when it comes to most educated and smartest countries. According to the reports by MSN News, 44 percent of the country’s 127.9 million people have gone on to pursue higher education. The country had produced 15 noble laureates in fields like physics, chemistry and medicine, and is the undisputed world leader when it comes to robotics. Some of the noble laureates are Akira Suzuki, a noble prize winner in Chemistry in the year 2010 and Makoto Kobayashi for Physics in 2008.

United States:

United States ranks fourth on the list of the smartest and the most educated countries. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2009-2010, there were 4,495 colleges and universities across U.S. Interestingly, more and more women have been a part of higher education. Overall, women have surpassed men when it comes to completing secondary and post-secondary education. In 2005 and 2006, women earned 58 percent of the country’s bachelor degrees, 60 percent of Masters Degree and 49 percent of Doctorates. Some of America’s noble laureates are Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, the Noble Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences (2001) and John Lewis Hall, Noble Prize in Physics in 2005.