In Europe that's not a very accurate description of the 'locals', are you referring to subsaharan Africa?

1. The groupings are horrible. Belarus amd Russia are grouped in with EU countries such as Czeck Republic, while Turkey is in WE. This is just gerrymandering for lack of a better word. As a minimum, EU and Asia Pac should have own regions as these are more homogenous.

2. Weighting, it's a country average not population adjusted. China weighs as much as Singapore. So 1.4 billion oppressed Chinese count as much as a tiny island-state, this is not reflecting the region as a whole. Similarly in Latam and Europe, the smaller countries pull up the average, Luxembourg evens out the democratic disaster that is Russia.

You semi-jest of course but in doing so you also remove focus from the real slavery problems of today: Millions in Asia, Africa and the Middle East held in slave or slave-like conditions. Not to speak of sex-trafficking all over the world. Americans prisons are a minimal problem in this context.

The chart contains number of top-500 companies, not market capitalisation in general.

So the US has more companies in the top-500 list perhaps because companies grow big faster in th US due to access to a huge and rich home market. Probably a whole lot of smaller companies in Europe, as the GDP is similar (I know, I know cant compre exactly like that).

Just means that American companies tend to grow to the top-500 size more often

Yes always the US fault, 20 million Afghans have no influence on their own destiny. The vacuum of leadership has bred so many attempts at peaceful development in the country in all regions. So many great leaders have stepped up. The raging religious fanatics have kept themselves in check. Industry leaders have built numerous sustainable large-employment organisations, and conscientious civil servants have built well functioning governance in medical care and the juidicial system, and built solid and well-maintained infrastructure. Agriculture has developed so much beyond opium and was able to sustain the population.

Then the US and NATO came and destroyed it all.

Mission Impossible rather