Indicators of Third World Countries

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