As opposed to where? At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time. Maybe only China
Some of the rest of the world builds meaningful societies/economies. Ones that won't explode into civil war the moment that the firehose of oil is tapped out.
I understand that parts of the Middle East are trying to do that as well, but it's not clear what the effort results in.
Is a giant (broken) ferris wheel "building meaningfully"?
It's probably a less than 6 hour flight for 2/3 or 3/4 of the world population.