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No, they are all considered to be developing countries, the closest countries out of those to reaching first world status is probably Romania but even they are a bit far off and will have to wait a decade or two before catching up to the rest of Europe.
I think they are all like 2nd world countries, but not 3rd. It's not Bangladesh or Yemen.
From what I can remember from my History and Geography classes, that category "Second World" was reserved for communist countries with a central planned economy, in the Cold War era.
I don't think a "Second World" still exists today...
From what I can remember from my History and Geography classes, that category "Second World" was reserved for communist countries with a central planned economy, in the Cold War era.
I don't think a "Second World" still exists today...
Well yeah you are right, this definition of "worlds" is basically outdated.
But the phrase "third world" have become common anyway -- in English and in other languages (for example we often use it in Russian).
"First world" is also still used. So, based on that we can assume that the "second world" should be something in between, i.e. countries that are not too rich and not too poor.
And by the way so it happened that many ex-communist countries meet these criteria.
4th world has been used occasionally to refer to uncontacted or very isolated groups of self sufficient human hunter gatherers who haven't entered into the modern systems of the nations in which they reside. The worlds thing is just kind of bothersome to me because of the hierarchy it implies, I think economically developed, middle income, and developing are better as broad terms.
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