If we look at countries beyond the US and China... what are they surviving on? Should math be a higher priority in the US? Should working hours in the US be th

If we look at countries beyond the US and China... what are they surviving on? Should math be a higher priority in the US? Should working hours in the US be the same as in China? Should the academic pressure on kids be as high in the US as in China? The US is much smaller population-wise, would we actually need to try five times harder than China? Is it not enough to compare today's high school overachievers with those of 20 years ago, all still fighting for the same universities but with all similarly-inflated resumes? Do we actually need to push them even further? Do we instead want to be more like the European countries that currently put themselves under less pressure than the US?