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Poland is developing… And developed?

This article says Poland is developing, but "developed" is literally the 4th word in the article summary for Poland when you search "Poland wiki." The article makes it sound like Poland is a rich country, but this one says it is developing. Why? 5.173.130.112 (talk) 22:35, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, it's very misleading. I think the problem is that we're using the IMF definition of "developing", and for some obscure reason, they deem it necessary to class Poland as "developing" which throws it into the same category as impoverished nations such as Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. Laughable isn't it. Poland has a VERY high human development index with high incomes, high life expectancy, excellent infrastructure, excellent public services, and yet it's classed as a developing country by IMF like Botswana. Poland isn't far off the standards of living of Western Europe, and its economy is currently the 8th largest in the EU and growing. If that makes it developing then I don't know what else to say!

Poland is considered a developed country by the FTSE, and the Wikipedia entry for Poland itself. This needs to be changed, as it is misinformation. Also, the UN considered Poland as a developed country back in 1996! Why is it considered as a developing country here in the first place? 46.205.193.70 (talk) 01:01, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The information in the article states "The following are considered developing economies according to the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook Database, October 2018." Is there a newer, updated list available? Or perhaps we can provide a second list using a different source/database? It's not just Poland that is listed there by the way but other Eastern European countries as well. I agree it seems counter-intuitive, so as soon as we have a different source or database let's update this information. EMsmile (talk) 02:05, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal to move content from Global South to here

I am wondering if we should move most or all of the content that is currently under "Common characteristics" in the article on Global South to here. This way, that article could focus on the term "Global South" and what it is used for. Those characteristics overlap with content at developing countries and I think it should be moved here.EMsmile (talk) 06:26, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've done this proposed work now. Any comments? EMsmile (talk) 04:16, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Climate Change

Hi there, I am new (to this page and to wikipedia editing) so apologies if I am not adhering to guidelines. Please do correct me! I think that in general, but in particular for this section we need to write about the leadership of developing countries in adapting and building resilience to climate change and that they are not just portrayed as victims. I have started to do this by adding a sentence or two on Bangladesh but there is much more that can be added. MduToit74 (talk) 13:17, 30 November 2020 (UTC)MduToit74[reply]

Thanks for making this edit, MduToit74! That's a good move and we need more of that... EMsmile (talk) 02:09, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Developing country as a historical term

In the introduction, it says that Developing country is equal to LMIC, whereas I think most people think of Least Developed Countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_developed_countries when they say Developing country. In the 1970's the world, in regards to income, looked like a Bactrian Camel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel while it since the last 20 years or so looks more like a Dromedary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromedary, see the 1970 compared to 2015 figures here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#Great_Divergence_and_Great_Convergence. Less than 10% of the world's population live in countries that are low-income and thus in what we used to call Developing countries. Perhaps a billion or so live in high income countries, so left are more than 5 billion people, the bulk of humanity, who lives in middle-income countries. The terms Developing/Developed countries are therefore out-dated as the world no longer is divided in two. Let's take Hunger as an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger#/media/File:Hunger_Map_2020_World_Food_Programme.svg. Some countries in Europe (Developed Countries) have a higher proportion of people suffering from hunger than a quite large number of countries in Developing countries. So, just like the use of 1st/2nd/3rd world countries describing how the Cold War divided the world, but where people still use Third World countries as a term for low-income countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-world_model, I would like to change the content in the article so that the term Developing country also is viewed as a term belonging to how the world was divided, but not is anymore. --Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 15:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please also refer to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Developing_country/Archive_1#Discussion_about_name_change_(again) for a previous similar discussion.

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 == Developing country as a historical term ==
-In the introduction, it says that Developing country is equal to LMIC, whereas I think most people think of Least Developed Countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_developed_countries when they say Developing country. In the 1970's the world, in regards to income, looked like a Bactrian Camel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel while it since the last 20 years or so looks more like a Dromedary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromedary, see the 1070 compared to 2015 figures here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#Great_Divergence_and_Great_Convergence. Less than 10% of the world's population live in countries that are low-income and thus in what we used to call Developing countries. Perhaps a billion or so live in high income countries, so left are more than 5 billion people, the bulk of humanity, who lives in middle-income countries. The terms Developing/Developed countries are therefore out-dated as the world no longer is divided in two. Let's take Hunger as an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger#/media/File:Hunger_Map_2020_World_Food_Programme.svg. Some countries in Europe (Developed Countries) have a higher proportion of people suffering from hunger than a quite large number of countries in Developing countries. So, just like the use of 1st/2nd/3rd world countries describing how the Cold War divided the world, but where people still use Third World countries as a term for low-income countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-world_model, I would like to change the content in the article so that the term Developing country also is viewed as a term belonging to how the world '''was''' divided, but not is anymore. --[[User:Olle Terenius (UU)|Olle Terenius (UU)]] ([[User talk:Olle Terenius (UU)|talk]]) 15:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
+In the introduction, it says that Developing country is equal to LMIC, whereas I think most people think of Least Developed Countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_developed_countries when they say Developing country. In the 1970's the world, in regards to income, looked like a Bactrian Camel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel while it since the last 20 years or so looks more like a Dromedary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromedary, see the 1970 compared to 2015 figures here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#Great_Divergence_and_Great_Convergence. Less than 10% of the world's population live in countries that are low-income and thus in what we used to call Developing countries. Perhaps a billion or so live in high income countries, so left are more than 5 billion people, the bulk of humanity, who lives in middle-income countries. The terms Developing/Developed countries are therefore out-dated as the world no longer is divided in two. Let's take Hunger as an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger#/media/File:Hunger_Map_2020_World_Food_Programme.svg. Some countries in Europe (Developed Countries) have a higher proportion of people suffering from hunger than a quite large number of countries in Developing countries. So, just like the use of 1st/2nd/3rd world countries describing how the Cold War divided the world, but where people still use Third World countries as a term for low-income countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-world_model, I would like to change the content in the article so that the term Developing country also is viewed as a term belonging to how the world '''was''' divided, but not is anymore. --[[User:Olle Terenius (UU)|Olle Terenius (UU)]] ([[User talk:Olle Terenius (UU)|talk]]) 15:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 Please also refer to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Developing_country/Archive_1#Discussion_about_name_change_(again) for a previous similar discussion.