Third World Country

A Third World Country is a term used for developing countries, and least developed countries. These countries are economically underdeveloped. Characteristics of a third world country are poverty, agriculture economy, disease, high birth and infant mortality rates, over population, poor infrastructure, unstable governments, no health care, environmental problems, non educated, starvation, and death. Those characteristics are the first thing that comes to someone’s mind about a third world country. Most third world countries are located in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The populations of third world countries are generally very poor but with high birth rates. In general they are not as industrialized or technologically advanced as the first world. The majority of the countries in the world fit this classification. Seventy percent of the world population is third world, which is a large part of the population.

Third world countries are associated with a term called false urbanization. False urbanization is when a country has a high percent urban statistic. The majority of urban population lives in the single biggest city. There is massive rural to urban migration. Primacy is also part of false urbanization, it is when the most population is in the main city, most of the time it’s the capital city. Polarization also takes place. A great example would be Jakarta, Indonesia, which is the capital of Indonesia; it has thirteen million people there. The biggest city is Mexico City, Mexico, which has over fifteen million people.

Social indicators are statistics that get the well being of people. Third world social indicators deal with the population of people, what the people live in, life expectancy and etc.. The population of a third world city is tremendous overpopulation. There are more people that a city can handle. The life expectancy of a person in a third world city is very young deaths. The people here are not educated. The education can help if people where taught about contraceptives to help control the population. The health care of these cities is a joke! They are not advanced with technology and again education is involved to know what to do for an ill person. The infant mortality in these cities are gigantic, this means the baby doesn’t live past one year old. The birth rate is also sky rocketing because families want more children so they can help with work around the house. There also is not enough food and water to feed all these people, let alone water to use to grow food! People in third world cities live in mostly huts, these people are the real poor ones that still live in a rural city. The urban city is not much better there foundations of buildings are bad and could collapse. Also transportation is very poor in the urban areas.

Economic indicators are the country/ city economic well being. The third world technology is less advanced for these nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These nations are characterized as poor, having economies depend on the export of primary products to the developed countries in return for finished products. The dependency theory is that organizations such as the IMF and World