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DEFINITION OF DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Due to differences in history as well as the present demographic regimes, it is important to discuss demographic trends separately for developed and developing countries. Then the first question one would ask is: what are developed and less developed countries? United Nations has divided all countries of the world into two broad categories: more developed countries and less developed countries. Then certain less developed countries are classified as least developed countries. The classification is as follows (United Nations Population Division, 2009):
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More developed regions : They comprise all regions of Europe plus Northern America , Australia/New Zealand and Japan .
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Less developed regions : They comprise all regions of Africa , Asia (excluding Japan ), Latin America and the Caribbean plus Melanesia , Micronesia and Polynesia.
Least developed countries : The group of least developed countries, as defined by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolutions (59/209, 59/210 and 60/33) in 2007, comprises 49 countries, of which 33 are in Africa, 10 in Asia, 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 5 in Oceania.
The group includes 49 countries - Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania , Vanuatu , Yemen and Zambia . These countries are also included in the less developed regions. |
