Having just got my night qualification in the USA, I would say that US private pilots are more priviledged. They do have available better training facilities to become Instrument rated as well as an environment that is encouraging to pilots. This encouragement encourages more flying and increases skill levels to the extent that mixing my PA28 in with a couple of 767s was no big deal.
With Class A airspace beginning at 18000'MSL anything below is for all to share. Even student pilots can fly in Class B with an instructors endorsement.