developing country
Country with a relatively low level of economic, social, and political development
Also known as developing countries · low and middle-income country · LMIC · low and middle-income countries · LMICs · less developed country
Overview
All data
86 statements · 38% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Number of out-of-school children
- 258M(2015)
- 256M(2014)
- 259M(2012)
- 266M(2011)
- 273M(2010)
- 283M(2009)
- 286M(2008)
- 296M(2007)
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- 314M(2006)
- 323M(2005)
- 325M(2004)
- 333M(2003)
- 349M(2002)
- 359M(2001)
- 362M(2000)
- 366M(1999)
- Short name
- 途上国 name in kana: とじょうこく · revised hepburn romanization: tojōkoku
- 개도국 revised romanization: gaedoguk · mccune–reischauer romanization: kaedoguk
- PED
- Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator
- Target 17.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Sources- 1.“Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals”globalgoals.org/goals/17-partnerships-for-the-goals/Retrieved 2025-05-12
- Target 17.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Sources- 1.“Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals”globalgoals.org/goals/17-partnerships-for-the-goals/Retrieved 2025-05-12
- Target 17.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Sources- 1.“Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals”globalgoals.org/goals/17-partnerships-for-the-goals/Retrieved 2025-05-12
- Target 17.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals
On other databases
53 identifiers linking developing country across the web's reference databases
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID21942
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300379994
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294907637
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/4522
- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID2302
- BBC Things IDec583215-0f20-4da7-9d2a-e3c779ad74c5
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID119456356
- BNCF Thesaurus ID13264
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/middle-income-developing-country
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDdeveloppement-economique-et-social-developpement-des-pays-du-sud
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID200963
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)1mmyU5
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)115884
- EuroVoc ID2295
- Freebase ID/m/0kh2x
- GACS ID1784
- GND ID4014954-7
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDutviklingsland
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDrazvivaiushchiesia-strany-1f3441
- Harper's tagdeveloping-countries
- Interlingual Index IDi80068
- J9U entity ID987007550789705171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)developing-countries
- Klexikon article IDEntwicklungsland
- Larousse IDdivers/pays_en_développement_PED/42908
- LEM IDLEM201201324
- Lex IDulande
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85037341
- MeSH descriptor IDD003906
- MeSH tree codeI01.261.587.750
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)83864248
- NALT ID28695
- Namuwiki ID개발도상국
- NDL Authority ID00566724
- NL CR AUT IDge137969
- Open Library subject IDplace:developing_countries
- OpenAlex IDC83864248
- Politiklexikon ID17410
- PSH ID1441
- Quora topic IDDeveloping-Countries
- ScienceDirect topic IDearth-and-planetary-sciences/less-developed-country
- Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy IDdeveloping-world
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID10492-3
- SVKKL authority IDg0004842-rozvojove-zeme
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10640796
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID90886
- UMLS CUIC0011750
- UNESCO Thesaurus IDconcept940
- VIAF cluster ID259366441
- WikiKids IDOntwikkelingsland
- Yale LUX IDconcept/e81548fe-98aa-4e3f-b043-f9cd271e6d0d
- YSO ID17004
- Zhihu topic ID19613287