When I was a kid and we would go back to visit family in Malaysia, I would always find it intriguing that seatbelts weren’t required when sitting in the backseat of cars.
I would ride without a seatbelt just because I could.
When I visit Malaysia now, there’s no way that I’m in a car without a seatbelt on. Front or back seat.
Just because the rules are different in different places, the risk doesn’t change.