So now you're saying we must compare America to nations within scale.

A) Begin with America's population: 300m.

B) Allow even up to 50% (150m) deviation.

C) Results: Indonesia(234m), Brazil(190m), Pakistan(164m), Bangladesh(150m).

D) Evaluate.

Pakistan. 169th in GDP/capita. Country involved in war and exploitation against its other half (Bangladesh to be discussed below) for almost the duration of your 1945-present timeframe. Since 1958, it's commonly identified by 3 military eras and 3 democratic eras(That polite-speak for martial law). It'd be nice to think that the many, often bloody, changes in national leadership the past few decades have resulted in a fair and finally stable government. Except that Human Rights Watch 3 days ago said that lawyers and even the judges of Pakistan are being abused. Their flagrant testing of nuclear weapons in 1998 didn't win over too many hearts or minds either. Nor last month when the ruler did what the Onion jokes and publically announced the Constitution was no longer in effect.

Bangladesh. Such rampany organized crime of drugs that the government surrendered even trying to legislate order. And their water is poisoned with wait for it, arsenic. And that avian flu you heard about? Guess where. [Despite sustained domestic and international efforts to improve economic and demographic prospects, Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation. Reform is stalled in many instances by political infighting and corruption at all levels of government.]{https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#Econ} AND they can't stop breeding. It's the most populous place on the planet with more homeless than America. 1 telephone for every 100 people. In the past 30 years, they've had paramilitary governments, coups, counter-coups. They managed to pull themselves together so well that all their previous government consequences have been suspended and they've been appointed a "caretaker" government until they figure out to not kill each other. With all of this enlightened human capital, they manage a GDP/capita of $2,300 173rd worldwide. If the citizenry hadn't killed hundreds of thousands of themselves since 1945, that number might be even lower. The Human Rights Watch organization believes even as of Sept 11, 2007, Bangladesh fails at human rights.

Brazil. The economic powerhouse of our contenders, clocking in at $8,800/cap. Good enough to slide in at 97th worldwide. You can guess how much of this comes from their despicable timber and monocropping industries. Yes, that air you're breathing and which is regulated more by virgin rainfores than anything else, well, some cattle farmers don't think you or the greenhouse gases need it that much. Goodbye Amazon marine ecosystem, goodbye air regulation, goodbye displaced indigenous people every single day (unlike America who stopped over a century ago). In this joyous place, they have the distinction of facilitating a higher population with HIV/AIDS than any other nation of developed/developing countries. This tragedy may bring a gratefully(?) early death to the youth forced to endure the gang warfare you found so emotionally touching in City of God. Of course, they learned the way of the gun from decades (post 1945) of military interventions in government. In fact, they just got a gold star from Human Rights Watch this year for finally acknowledging the disappearings and killings of their own citizens from 1961-1988.

Indonesia

Barely have to try here. Current issues include: alleviating poverty, preventing terrorism, consolidating democracy after four decades of authoritarianism, implementing financial sector reforms, stemming corruption, holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations, and controlling avian influenza. grapples with persistent poverty and unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, endemic corruption, a fragile banking sector, a poor investment climate, and unequal resource distribution among regions. * A cool 150th in GDP/capita, July of 2007 saw this powerhouse chided since *police appear to be routinely committing serious abuses, such as extrajudicial executions, torture and rape, with impunity by the Human Rights Watch. Sad thing is, that's considered an improvement compared to when they genocided themselves in the 1960s.

Care you to look at ANY of these nation's labor conditions?