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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world

The terms First World, Second World, and Third World, can be used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. Third World is a term first coined in 1952 by French demographer Alfred Sauvy on the model of Sieyès's declaration concerning the Third Estate during the French Revolution: "...because at the end this ignored, exploited, scorned Third World like the Third Estate, wants to become something too." The Third World later became a synonym of these nations that aligned themselves with neither the West nor with the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War. Thus, the Non-Aligned Movement was created after the 1955 Bandung Conference.

Today, however, the term is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (HDI), independent of their political status (meaning that the PRC, Russia and Cuba, all of which were very strongly aligned during the Cold War, are often termed third world).

2006-10-31 21:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Cold War terminology:
First World - those countries aligned with U.S. ideology.
Second World - those countries aligned with U.S.S.R. ideology.
Third World - those countries - mostly impoverished who were not aligned with either ideology.

Fourth World - newer term for countries in deep poverty.

2006-11-01 07:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 0 0

I think the word came from westerners especially the former colonizers of developed nation.

2006-11-01 06:37:46 · answer #3 · answered by Berhane Gebreyesus Habtu 4 · 0 0

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