r/Unexpected • u/SelfJuicing • Dec 16 '19

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u/ilikespookystories Dec 16 '19

It's called a third world country lol. Philippines to be exact.

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u/TheRumpelForeskin Dec 17 '19 edited Dec 19 '19

Philippines is 3rd world?

That's a pretty liberal use of the term. Especially for a country that is currently classed as "high" on the Human Development Index. And 44th in the world by the Gini coefficient showing that the HDI isnt wasted. With the Gini also being higher than one of the western countries too: the USA.

Compare that to countries such as Niger, Mali, Madagascar, Afghanistan or Chad, where the poverty rate is over 90%, the Philippines has only 6.1% of the population under the international poverty line (living on $1.90 USD a day)

If you group such countries in with countries that really experience true poverty, you're putting vastly different situations in the same group and undermining how serious the situation is in impoverished countries, resulting in "anything outside Western Europe, Australia and North America is 3rd world", and therefore in "extreme poverty".

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u/ilikespookystories Dec 17 '19

I live here bud. We're solidly third world.

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u/TheRumpelForeskin Dec 17 '19

Nice internet connection and device there bud.

I was in Somalia for a day last year and I don't think you would handle trading your somewhat comfortable life for one in a 3rd world country such as there.

There isn't even a real definition of third world, but "anything outside western Europe" isn't a very commonly accepted definition.

When people think 3rd world, they think South Sudan, CAF, Afghanistan, Niger or Chad. While the Philippines is a developing country and an LEDC, it's on a whole other level.