The emergence of the third world

First world

countries are known as the highly industrialized nations whose views aligned with the United States, Western Europe, and their allies, and believed in capitalism.

Second world

countries are those that adhere to communist beliefs and aligned with the Soviet Union.

Third world

countries are those nations which are aligned neither with the United States nor the Soviet Union.

third world

term to collectively refer to societies, communities and civilizations of the non-

Western world, usually located in the tropics and colonized by foreign powers.

African countries, Asia, Latin America, Carribean

countries in the third worls

low gross national income

First characteristic of the third-world countries

dependence on economically stable and technologically advanced countries

second characteristic of the third-world countries

low human development index

third characteristic of the third-world countries

Kofi Annan

_____, the Secretary of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006, issued

a statement on November 29, 1999 entitled “Help the Third World Help Itself.” An excerpt of Annan’s

statement is shown below