developed country

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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.

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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".[1][2]

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