Everybody understand that the U.S. and England are wealthy countries, but why countries such as Canada or?

Question

What's the reason to consider 1st world countries to countries such as Canada, Australia or New Zeland. Those countries don't have important industries such as electronics or automovile industries. They don't have petroleum or some really importan source of wealth such as an important production of gold or silver.
Shouldn't those countries be consider 3rd world countries?

yes canada has automovile plants such as general motors, ford, etc, etc. but those are foreigner plants sometimes americans, japaneses, etc, etc. then why the first mentioned countries don't have their OWN industries.

Answer 1

It's evident that you are amazingly ignorant about Canada and Australia New Zealand. They do have important industries, and Canada has FAR more petroleum than the US does. In addition they have very high educational standards, technology standards, infrastructures, and sophisticated healthcare, public health and environmental standards.

Yogi suggested that you check the CIA World Factbook. but I think you need to read a few books about the difference between the 1st world and 3rd world. Maybe take a course in Environmenta Science, Economics or Economic Geography.

Answer 2

What's the point of labeling countries in that way anyway?

Does it really make a difference if you call, say Australia a "1st world" country or not? What does that have to do with reality.

What exactly are you looking for?

Most people in the world understand that Canada is a wealthy country irrespective of what industries exist, and to say something as broad as "those countries don't have important industries..." is untrue. Canada is a pioneer in communications and provided a lot of the skill to NASA to send man to the moon. You might be still changing your clock for every city that you visit if it weren't for a Canadian inventing the concept of time zones. Before that it didn't matter what time zone you lived in. Most cities had there own time, and it wasn't so neatly divided into hours. More like one city would be 43 minutes different from another. And that's nothing. What about Alexander Graham Bell? You wouldn't even have a phone if it wasn't for him coming up with ideas in Canada.

Canada doesn't have petroleum, gold, or silver? You need to do some studying. Canada also provides the U.S. with the majority of it's oil, in case you didn't know.

But, seriously, what's the point of your question?

As long as people live peacefully, that's all that matters. And each country you mentioned lives a lot more peacefully than the U.S., or even the U.K. for that matter.

I have an idea: Go to a library and read through a few encyclopedias. Most places in the world have public libraries. Usually it's a building that has a lot of books on shelves. You can enter the building, and read books for free. Usually they allow people to take books home for a period of a couple of weeks or so, but you have to promise to return the books. This is also a free service. These "libraries" have all sorts of information on countries such as the ones you've stated.

Answer 3

What's the reason to consider 1st world countries to countries such as Canada, Australia or New Zeland. Those countries don't have important industries such as electronics or automovile industries. They don't have petroleum or some really importan source of wealth such as an important production of gold or silver.

Answer 4

Look up the specs on these countries at the CIA World factbook. It will give you the economic breakdown for specific countries and the median income. There is a wealth of information here in starting your research. Every country in the world is listed. Here's the address:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html