In this article, we'll list countries that will be the most underdeveloped heading into 2024. If you want to skip our overview of the regions where poverty and underdevelopment prevail, read 10 Least ...

Every three years, the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations designates a group of least developed countries (LDCs), which today form a group of fifty states (see table 1). In ...

Discover what defines a newly industrialized country—economies transitioning from agriculture to industry, with notable GDP growth yet shy of being fully developed.

Luxembourg has the second-highest GDP per capita globally, trailing only Liechtenstein. In 2023, its Real GDP growth is projected to decline by 0.6% before rebounding to 1.4% in 2024 and 2.0% in 2025, ...

Both countries had an influx of wealthy people moving in, but with changes in taxes and other issues, some wealthy people want out.

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There is little doubt that the phenomenal growth of the telecommunications space is amongst the global economy’s greatest success stories. Now, let’s delve deeper into that statement. While it is ...

The sovereign debt of developed market (DM) countries, for decades largely perceived to float free of governance and societal risks endemic to the emerging markets (EM), no longer can be presumed safe ...

The population of the World’s developed countries is currently a little over 1.3 billion people. This is about 17% of the world population today and will be about 50% of the world population by 2050.

Since the mid-1980s, countries like UK, Japan and Israel have seen a steep increase in poverty rates, according to a new OECD report that looks at poverty across its member countries. We ranked ...

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