developed country

English

Noun

developed country (plural developed countries)

1. (economics) A country with an advanced, high-income, industrialized economy.
   • 2023 October 4, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: High noon for Sunak”, in RAIL, number 993, page 3:

     We can't imagine what life would be like without all of these critical pieces of the nation's infrastructure. Without them, both economic growth and personal mobility would have been grievously affected, and the UK would be condemned to slide down towards "less developed country" status.

Usage notes

The terms developed country and developing country are in wide use as of 2022. Some style guides discourage their use in favor of terms with less implicit bias such as "high-income countries" and "low- and middle-income countries".

Coordinate terms

• developing country

Translations

country with an advanced economy

• Arabic: دَوْلَة مُتَقَدِّمَة f (dawla mutaqaddima)
• Belarusian: развіта́я краі́на f (razvitája kraína)
• Bulgarian: разви́та страна́ f (razvíta straná)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 發達國家／发达国家 (faat³ daat⁶ gwok³ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 發達國家／发达国家 (zh) (fādá guójiā), 發達國／发达国 (zh) (fādáguó), 先進國／先进国 (zh) (xiānjìnguó)

• Czech: vyspělá země f
• Dutch: ontwikkeld land n
• Finnish: kehittynyt maa, teollisuusmaa (fi)
• French: pays développé (fr) m
• Georgian: განვითარებული ქვეყანა (ganvitarebuli kveq̇ana), განვითარებული ეკონომიკის მქონე ქვეყანა (ganvitarebuli eḳonomiḳis mkone kveq̇ana), ინდუსტრიული ქვეყანა (indusṭriuli kveq̇ana)
• German: Industriestaat (de) m, entwickeltes Land n
• Hungarian: fejlett ország
• Indonesian: negara maju (id)
• Italian: paese sviluppato m
• Japanese: 先進国 (ja) (せんしんこく, senshinkoku)
• Korean: 선진국(先進國) (ko) (seonjin'guk)
• Macedonian: развиена земја f (razviena zemja)
• Malay: negara maju
• Polish: kraj rozwinięty m
• Portuguese: país desenvolvido m
• Romanian: țară dezvoltată f
• Russian: ра́звитая страна́ f (rázvitaja straná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: развијена земља f

  Roman: razvijena zemlja f

• Slovak: vyspelá krajina f
• Slovene: razvita država f
• Spanish: país desarrollado m
• Turkish: gelişmiş ülke
• Ukrainian: розви́нена краї́на f (rozvýnena krajína)

Further reading

• “developed country”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• Who are the developing countries in the WTO?, wto.org
• OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms - Developed, developing countries Definition, oecd.org