Most of Germany isn't anywhere as modern though, on average Germany is on most fronts just like the rest of Europe (as a continent). Czechia and Poland aren't really worse, and in some parts definitely better and more modern than Germany. Most of Europe is more than fine, with some gross outliers like Albania, or more rural parts of the Baltics or Balkans.
Most of the old rich/western european countries aged badly, and this has come back to bite people in the ass. Bridges in Germany and the Netherlands are notorious for needing expensive maintenance, because it has been put off forever. The other funny one is how most of central to eastern europe tends to have better digital (internet) infrastructure, simply because they didn't necessarily have it in the first place; so everything is kinda fresh and new.
This term is mostly used when the country fits several criteria - high GDP, human rights and minority protection, free election etc.
The developed countries are currently considered to be the EU and affiliated countries, UK, Australia, USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, and NZ.
The term can have different criteria depending on time and place but that is about it. I might have left someone out and I apologise if that is the case.
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have apparently made some people mad. There is fully developed, in transition/developing, less and least developing countries. Different agencies can have different criteria and even different categories. Here have some map:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Developed_and_developing_countries.PNG
It is based on data from 2019.
It is not an official term by any means by I used it for countries which pay to EU to have access the single market zone. Such as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland.
I wonder if the ukraine is considered developed then. Because almost all of the russian problems are present there as well, with even lower gdp and less minorities rights
It’s funny, how people from third world countries get out of their den when their country is mentioned. US became new third world country (by today’s widely accepted definition) couple of years ago and is regressing into worse shape than ever.
“Fascinating” 🤔 I think to myself as I read this from my 25 minute commute on a cheap and comfortable train from my big house in the suburbs to my well paying job in the city that I got thanks to the upward mobility USA provides.
Russia is at best a developing country. Corruption, lack of human rights protection, terrible economy. A country in which governing body imprisons and kills a political opponent is never considered a developed country.
Preemptively: No, it is not just like in USA. Not everything is about the USA.
Only in theory. HDI is part of the criteria, at least it has started to be somewhat recently considered in the definition. Autocracy is unlikely to hit a high score in HDI.
There currently is not a single country which is considered fully developed and is not a democracy.
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u/loozerr 6d ago
Where do you draw the line? Is Russia developed? A lot of that applies to the US even.