The data cannot be right. Is the average penis really that small in the states ?

This is probably the data set everyone uses, compiled by Data Panda. Read the sources and methodology, and weep.

https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/penis-size-by-country

All such data is a _little_ dubious, as it's pretty much always opt-in, and there'd always be a question of whether you have a fair sample.

If anything, that would lead one to assume that it overestimates typical length.

Eh, you can imagine it going either way; maybe someone who’s worried about it is more likely to sign up for a dick measuring study?

There’s so much psychological baggage here that I’d be really suspicious of any stats. The Kinsey Report famously found that gay men were almost half an inch bigger than straight men, and for a while that lead to a lot of speculation around sexuality being driven by maternal hormonal differences, but I think these days it’s pretty much accepted that it was probably just selection bias (that bit of the study was optional).

There is a correlation with average waist size here...

No wonder for the overcompensation on the worldstage!