Can someone Define the term "Third World Country"?

Answer 1

The term "Third World Country" is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (HDI), independent of their political status (meaning that the People's Republic of China, Russia and Cuba, all of which were very strongly aligned during the Cold War, are often termed third world).
However, there is no objective definition of Third World or "Third World country" and the use of the term remains common.
The term Third World is also disliked as it may imply the false notion that those countries are not a part of the global economic system. Some in academia see it as being out-of-date, colonialist, and inaccurate; its use has continued, however.

Answer 2

The term 'Third World' was a creation of the Cold War and is now obsolete. While most people understood it as a measure of relative wealth actually it was as much if not more a political measurement. The First World were the Industrialized Capitalist Western Nations, the Second World was the Industrialized Communist Nations and the Third World were all the rest mostly in Africa and South Asia.

Answer 3

The term has gone out of date. You'll lose your place at the table if you are talking seriously about other nations and you use "third world country." The term you are looking for is "developing country."

And France and Greece are not included in that designation, as the first poster noted.

Answer 4

MSN CBS/ News: If you have 2200. dollars you have more money than 1/2 the people in the world. Some say 2/3's of the world. If you are living on less than 2200 per year in gross wages. Your in extreme poverty. No matter where you live.
But some countries that is what everyone lives on.
So they are called 1/3 world in other words they do not have the bare necessities such as clean water, food, clothes or shelter.
They die before reaching 50 or 60 years old, most infants die.
disease takes its toll.

Answer 5

In reality and not political propaganda?

Then if that it is, a "Third World Country" is a country whose populace and its governmental staff are hard to be controlled by the one world order, the people who live there are more wealthy and have more freedom.

Answer 6

basically a third world country is acountry that suffers a bad economy which thus cause people to live below or at poverty line meaning they dont have the sufficient resources for example money food , examples of third world countries could be seen in asia

Answer 7

The original term referred to those countries not allied with either the US or the USSR in the cold war days.
You were either with us or them or if neither you were in the 3rd world meaning non-aligned to anybody.
It later became a reference to poverty areas because it was a good catch phrase.

Answer 8

A developing country, with a low Gross National Product and generally lower standards of living.

This would be; Mexico, France, Turkey, Greece, Most South American Countries, African Continant.

Answer 9

No, becauase there is no generally accepted definition. It generally refers to poor countries with underdeveloped economies, that are lacking in technology as well. I've given you a link to review that gives an explanation of the term.

Answer 10

Everywhere but here in great USA.