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Assume for a moment that all the factors which in the comics contribute to the creation of super-humans (radioactive spiders, bizarre industrial accidents, mutations, magic, old gods, alien artifacts, etc...) are more-or-less evenly distributed about the globe. There are exceptions: Marvel Britain has a large unique population of "warp children", and the former Marvel USSR's mutant population was decimated; but at least assume that where a location is deficient in one factor, it may have an over-abundance of something else that changes normal humans to super-humans.
Now, according to the UN 1998 global population estimates, in a world with nearly 6 billion people, there are about:
1.25 billion people living in the PRC (about 21% of all people)
1 billion living in India (about 17%)
275 million in the USA (about 4.5%)
206M in Indonesia (about 3.4%)
167M in Brazil (about 2.8%)
147M each in Russia and Pakistan (about 2.45% and 2.45%)
125M each in Japan and Bangladesh (about 2% and 2%)
106M in Nigeria (about 1.77%)
What does all of this mean? That, based on those rough numbers--
* Six out of every ten super-humans on the planet hail from one of the above ten nations.
* Out of every five super-humans on the planet, one is Chinese and one is Indian.
* For every super-human in the USA, there are four or five Chinese supers, three or four supers from India, and thirteen supers from elsewhere on the planet.
* For every two or three US supers, there's a super-human Nigerian; So adding up ((7 Avengers)+(Fantastic 4)+(6 X-Men))/2.5 = 6.8, or about seven super-humans on the "Nigeria Force" roster.
