Time to stop referring to the “developing world” Daniel Gerszon MahlerAlaka HollaUmar Serajuddin January 23, 2024 This page in: English Français Español العربية 中文

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/time-stop-referring-developing-world When working in an international financial institution, it is hard to find a document that does not refer to “developing countries” or “the developing world.” (Fortunately, it is now rare to find the term “third world”.) In the World Bank, this concept typically encompasses all 135 countries classified as low- or middle-income, whose 6.7 billion people are home to 84% of the world’s population.