I guess by "most of the world" you are mostly referring to the African and South-East Asian countries that are red on the map you linked, but have long-running

I guess by "most of the world" you are mostly referring to the African and South-East Asian countries that are red on the map you linked, but have long-running civil wars and other armed conflicts? Well, the explanation is the same as in the case of Mexico: corruption and a dysfunctional government. But yes, the tendency to make restrictions and punishments harsher hoping that they will be respected at least a little bit even though they are not enforced is pretty universal. Some examples: the potential death penalty for possessing larger quantities of drugs in Thailand. Or the ever-increasing penalties for traffic violations here in Germany, which correlate with less and less enforcement because of understaffed police...