Your insight doesn't seem to apply even to the small subset of countries you decided to check it on, which really makes it look more like your preconceived idea

Your insight doesn't seem to apply even to the small subset of countries you decided to check it on, which really makes it look more like your preconceived ideal rather than anything you read from this map, no? I think other explanations (including geographically induced ways of interpreting the question) are rather more likely.