Differences in educational attainment, socio-economic variables and geographical location across 79 provinces of the Russian Federation

Data are reported for educational attainments as a measure of intelligence, a number of socio-economic variables, and latitude and longitude for 79 provinces of the Russian Federation. The average intelligence of the provinces was significantly positively correlated with urbanization (r = 0.43), the percentage of ethnic Russians (r = 0.39), net migration (r = 0.54) and latitude (r = 0.35), such that intelligence was higher in the north, and significantly negatively correlated with infant mortality (r = − 0.43), fertility (r = − 0.39) and longitude (r = − 0.36), such that intelligence was higher in the west.