What is a third world country??

Question

im guessing asia europe africca and a few more

but ive never really payed close attention to it.

Answer 1

With the collapse of communism as a signifigant ideology in the world, the term 3rd world has lost most of it's meaning. The United Nations and most sociologists prefer the world "developed" economies and the most widely used metric is the Human Development Index (HDI). HDI tries to take into account education, health, long life, and wealth into it's calculation.

- Nations are grouped by High, Medium, and Low. The 22 nations in the Low category are all in Africa under the current ranking.

-The High ranking is more inclusive than the old "1st world". It includes northern america, Europe, Russia, and developing countries such as Mexico, Brazil and some countries in Eastern Europe.

Answer 2

This is a quote from the listed source:

"Four Worlds

After World War II the world split into two large geopolitical blocs and spheres of influence with contrary views on government and the politically correct society:

1 - The bloc of democratic-industrial countries within the American influence sphere, the "First World".

2 - The Eastern bloc of the communist-socialist states, the "Second World".

3 - The remaining three-quarters of the world's population, states not aligned with either bloc were regarded as the "Third World."

4 - The term "Fourth World", coined in the early 1970s by Shuswap Chief George Manuel, refers to widely unknown nations (cultural entities) of indigenous peoples, "First Nations" living within or across national state boundaries"

Yale Simkin

Answer 3

a country where poverty reigns, with no significant exports, high unemployment, lack of industry, low literacy rate, undeveloped areas, poor education system...the following countries (not a complete list) are NOT Third World:

USA, Canada, Japan, England, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Israel, Brunei...

Answer 4

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Third World is a name given to nations that are generally considered to be underdeveloped economically during the 20th century.The name Third World arose during the Cold War to refer to nations that did not belong to the First and Second Worlds. While there is debate over the appropriateness of the term, and no alternative is without detractors, the term is one embraced by many Third World nations themselves, particularly in the Non-Aligned Movement.

Third World was a term first coined by Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India), originally to distinguish nations that aligned with neither the West or with the East during the Cold War, including many members of the Non-Aligned Movement. Today, however, the term is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (HDI), independent of their political status. However, there is no objective definition of Third World or Third World country and the use of the term remains controversial.

The economist and demographer Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World in referring to countries currently called either "developing" or "under-developed", especially in Latin America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia, that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War (1945–1989).

Third World was a reference to the Troisieme État, the Third Estate, the commoners of France before and during the French Revolution, opposed to the priests and nobles who composed the First Estate and the Second Estate. Like the third estate, wrote Sauvy, the Third World has nothing, and "wants to be something", implying that the Third World is exploited (as was the third estate) and that its destiny is revolutionary. Moreover, it conveyed the second concept of political non-alignment with neither the industrialized Capitalist bloc nor the industrialized Communist bloc.

In academic circles, the countries of the Third World are known as the "Third World", the "Global South", the "developing countries", and the "under-developed countries". Economic development workers refer to these nations as the "Two-thirds World" and "The South". Some developers disapprove of the "developing countries" term because the term implies that industrialization is progressive.

he term "third world" was first intended to refer to the way those countries were discovered and because most of them were born as colonies of more powerful nations before they became independent nations. The term later on became popular as a way to denominate countries that are still in the process of developing. In the colonial era, western imperialists exploited these countries. Once imperialism ended, these countries were left to take care of themselves, something most colonial powers never allowed. These countries were left to face the challenges of nation and state-building on their own for the first time.

As European colonies in Africa, Asia, Americas, and Oceania gained their independence they commonly experienced widespread poverty, high birthrates, and economic dependence upon their former colonial masters. After World War II, the capitalist Western and the communist Eastern blocs fought to expand their spheres of influence to the Third World. The military and intelligence services of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. worked secretly and publicly to influence Third World governments, with relative success.

The term Third World became popular usage during the Cold War when many poor nations adopted it in describing themselves as aligned with neither N.A.T.O. nor the U.S.S.R., but instead composed an unaligned Third World. In that context, the First World denoted the U.S. and its anti-Communist allies, concomitantly, Second World denoted the "Eastern Bloc" — the U.S.S.R. and its communist and socialist allies.

For the most part, Third World did not include China. Politically, the Third World emerged at the Bandung Conference (1955), which established the Non-Aligned Movement. Numerically, the Third World dominates the United Nations, but is so culturally and economically diverse that its political cohesion is hypothetical, as most Third World nations in Euroasia and Latin America have rich, growing and prosperous economies. The petroleum-rich countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, etc.) and the new industrial countries (India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico etc.) as well as the rapidly growing countries such as (Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, etc.) have little if anything in common with poor countries (Haiti, Chad, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc.).

In 1972, China's Chairman Mao gave another definition of three worlds. In his definition, super power dual US and USSR belong to the first world because of their great impact on the world affairs. Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada belong to the second world. Oth

Answer 5

An outdated term that most social scientist no longer approve of.  We now refer to more or less developed countries. Or sometimes the more developed countries are called industrialized or post industrial. Countries in the middle are called "developing".

Factors used to determine level of development are mostly economic like gross domestic product per capita. Because development leads to better social care social factors can also be used, like infant mortality, life expectancy, or literacy for example.

Asia, Europe, and Africa are continents. Each contain some more developed countries and some under developed countries. But Europe in general is highly developed.