I believe the only country that has a higher age of consent than 18 is Madagascar (21), the VAST majority of the world has an age of consent below 18, including a large part of the USA (where the age of consent federally is 16, with some states setting it one or two years higher). The average age of consent world wide is 16, and it ranges from less than 12 up to 21. The biggest cluster of land where the age of consent is 18+ is in the western United States and central Africa, with sprinkles elsewhere through out the world. Despite this fact most Americans seem to think that the age of consent is 18+, possibly because that is the age of consent to appear in pornography (and the age which you can legally own pornography of somebody), or possibly because the people in this area (of the US) are the loudest ones screaming that anything less than 18 is rape (of course they need to scream loud since they are a drop in the bucket). http://chartsbin.com/view/hxj